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Rosemarie Rowley
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RosemarieRowley has degrees in Irish and English Literature, andphilosophy from Trinity College Dublin, an M.Litt on the nature poet PatrickKavanagh, and a diploma in psychology from NUI.
RosemarieRowley has written extensively in form: Flight into Reality (1989) is anextended book length original work in terza rima in English, reprinted 2010 andnow available on CD. She has also written in rhyme royal and rhyming couplets.She has four times won the Epic award in the Scottish International Open PoetryCompetition. Her books in print are: The Sea of Affliction (1987,one of thefirst works in ecofeminism, reprinted 2010, and Hot Cinquefoil Star, (2002) (which contains ThePuzzle Factory a crown of sonnetsand Letter to Kathleen Raine inrhyming couplets). Her most recent bookis In Memory of Her (2004, 2008)which includes Betrayal into Origin –Dancing & Revolution in the Sixties (an 80 stanza poem in decima rima(ten line rhyme) and The Wake of Wonder(a regular sonnet sequence) and many other sonnets; all books, except herfirst, The Broken Pledge (1985,Martello) published by Rowan Tree Ireland Press, Dublin.
In 2003, she co-edited, with town planner JohnHaughton, an anthology of tree poems, “Seeing the Wood and the Trees” (Rowan TreePress with Cairde na Coille)
Rosemarie has given papers for academic conferences in the Universities ofGalway and Limerick and the Clinton Institute (UCD) in Ireland, in Bath, Edinburgh, St. Andrews’Stirling, and King’s College, London, in the UK, in Louisville, Sarasota andAtlanta Universities in the USA and in Klagenfurt,Prague, Venice, Paris ,and Valladolid on the European mainland. She has beenactive in the green movement in Ireland and in the Irish Byron Society andworked for a time in the European institutions in Europe.

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