Rosemarie Rowley

Rosemarie Rowley (born 1942) is an Irish award-winning poet and ecofeminist.

Rosemarie Rowley
Born	1942 Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	Irish
Alma mater	Trinity College Dublin
Website
www.rosemarierowley.ie

Life and work

Born in Dublin in 1942 Rowley was educated through a Dublin Corporation scholarship. She went on to work in the Agricultural Institute and worked in Birmingham before going on to third level education. She was educated in Trinity College Dublin where she graduated with a degree in Irish and English literature, and philosophy in 1974. She later gained a diploma from the National University of Ireland in psychology.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

In the later 1970s Rowley emigrated to Luxembourg where she worked for several years. She retired and became involved in the Green movement in Ireland. She went back to college to complete a master's again in Trinity College in 1984. Her thesis was on the poems of Patrick Kavanagh.^[2][3][4][5]

Rowley has published seven books of poetry. She has won the Epic award in the Scottish International Poetry Competition four times.^[6][3] Her first short story was awarded an Image Award.^[3][4] Rowley has been joint editor with John Haughton of the Cáirde na Coille anthology.^[7]

She has written the longest poem in terza rima in the English language and has been president of the Irish Byron Society from 2008 to 2012.^[8]

Rowley lives in Booterstown, County Dublin^[4] and has one son, David.

Poetry

• The Broken Pledge and Other Poems (Dublin: Martello 1985)
• The Sea of Affliction (Dublin: Rowan Tree Press/An Clóphreas Caorthainn 1987)[Re-printed 2010]
• Flight into Reality (Dublin: Rowan Tree Press 1989)
• You Are the Earth: Poems 1958-1968 by Mimmo Morina [translation](Luxembourg: Euroeditor 1996)[poems of Sec. Gen. of World Organisation of Poets]
• Alma Tellus by Mimmo Morina [translation](Luxembourg: Euroeditor 1997)
• Hot Cinquefoil Star (Dublin: Rowan Tree 2003)
• Seeing the Wood and the Trees, editor with John Haughton (Dublin: Rowan Tree Press 2003)
• In Memory of Her [2004 lim. edn.] (Dublin: Rowan Tree 2009)
• Girls of the Globe (Dublin: Arlen House 2015)
• Ireland's Legendary Women (Dublin: Arlen House 2016)

References

1. "Poetry Reading with Rosemarie Rowley". Dublin city. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
2. "Lunchtime Reading with Rosemarie Rowley". Retrieved 9 November 2016.
3. "Irish Writers Online". Irishwriters-online.com. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
4. "Rosemarie Rowley". Ricorso.net. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
5. Barbara Cook (14 December 2007). Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View. Lexington Books. pp. 119–. ISBN 978-0-7391-6262-0.
6. "ROSEMARIE ROWLEY: Review of"The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism"". Green Foundation Ireland. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
7. John Haughton (2014). Beslan-Not Forgotten. Author House. pp. 61–. ISBN 978-1-4969-8382-4.
8. Peter Cochran (18 July 2014). Byron and Latin Culture: Selected Proceedings of the 37th International Byron Society Conference. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-1-4438-6425-1.