Perverse Serenity
Published on 1. November 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
71 pages
978-1-875559-13-8 (ISBN)
Description
What happens when an Australian feminist falls in love with an Irish monk? Robyn Rowland travelled to Ireland hoping to delve into her family's history. She circles the country, driving its roads in search of something more. What she finds is risk, uncertainty, clarity and turbulence. Is this love wasted, dry and juiceless? Or is the tearing what love should be all about? In poems that soar and wreck themselves at the base of cliffs, Robyn Rowland takes us into a raw and exultant world.
Reviews / Votes
"Here is a picture of woman's divided loves, for a love in Ireland and for one in Australia, drawn with rare honesty and compelling strength of observation which involves the reader. Here is writing not afraid to be vulnerable, not trapped in literary artifice, not reticent about emotion, its hopes, its fears, its withdrawals and assertions, which we all share and which enrich our humanity. A memorable picture emerges of a contemporary woman, intelligent and able to feel deeply, who is not afraid to feel the incompleteness, the unfinished edges of human love." -- Barrett Reid.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
1 Maps
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
95 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-875559-13-8 (9781875559138)
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Robyn Rowland is an Australian-Irish poet regularly visiting Turkey. She has written twelve books, nine of poetry. Her work appears in national and international journals and in over 40 anthologies, including eight editions of Best Australian Poems. She has read in many countries including, Bosnia, Serbia, Austria, Turkey, Canada, India, and Portugal where she has been published. She was filmed reading for the National Poetry Archives, James Joyce Library UCD Ireland.