Passion & Poetry with Robyn Rowland Back to Literary Information
Location: Cafe Colenso	Presenter: Robyn Rowland Rodney Hall	Event Times: Monday 9 June 9:30 am

Robyn Rowland has published 9 books, six of them poetry. Silence and its tongues (Five Islands Press, 2006) was shortlisted for the 2007 ACT Minister's Judith Wright Poetry Prize.

Robyn has won, among other prizes, the Catalpa Poetry Prize and overall Writers Prize from the Australian- Irish Heritage Association, and the Jean Stone Poetry Prize 2006 (NSW, FAW). Robyn regularly reads/teaches in Ireland. Previously Professor of Social Inquiry at Deakin University, she was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for her contribution to higher education and women's health in 1996.

This session will be chaired by Rodney Hall, award winning author and poet, who has twice won the Miles Franklin Award. He was presented with the gold medal of the Australian Literature Society in 1992 and again in 2001.

   

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