Rosemarie Rowley

Publications and readings

Posted by Rosemarie Rowley on Apr 09 2008

On 28 February, I gave a reading for Poetry Ireland with Sheila O Hagan, it was also the occasion for the launch of the new edition of “In Memory of Her” – quite a few people have since told me they are enjoying the book, which contains two Epic winners in the Scottish International Poetry Competition, “Betrayal into Origin” and “The Wake of Wonder”. “Betrayal into Origin” is also entitled “Dancing and Revolution in the ‘Sixties” and images Ireland, personified as a woman who responds to the challenges of those times. I know personification of a woman can be problematic, but as she is also the narrator, the tone is not passive, but active, as it discusses some of the contentious issues of the day. It may seem a little rhetorical at times, but irony is intended.

Since then, I have been busy putting a prose work together, of uncertain destination as yet. I took some time off to hear the first of the Trinity Readings, organised by the Oscar Wilde School of Creative Writing in Trinity, and enjoyed tremendously the readings of Derek Mahon, Mary Morrissy and George Szirtes – the latter’s work seemed to me to be elegant, beautiful, sonorous and magical.

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