Sunday 15th February
starting 3:00pm for 3:30pm
Poetic Witness:
Personal and Political
On Steep Curve by Robyn Rowland
When her father, Norm Rowland OAM is almost 100, Robyn returns from Ireland. Initially companion, then carer during covid, she lives with him in the house he built 65 years before.
Their relationship grows through physical and emotional challenges, anger, frustration, grief and love. Poems for Norm from previous years are interwoven here. Heartbreaking and tender, a book created with love and skill: this is the poetic narrative of their shared journey.
On Seang by Anne Casey
For the 180th anniversary of the Great Irish Famine’s commencement, Seang (Hungering) poignantly reclaims the human story behind the lost history of a group of rebel girls who were daughters of Irish famine refugees to Australia. It seeks to restore voice to these girls and their families, who were silenced over and over during their lives, and who suffered destitution, discrimination, and intergenerational incarceration and hardships largely driven by colonial policies, attitudes and actions in Ireland and in Australia. Incorporating award-winning research and poetry, Seang offers a beacon for the 473 million children in our world today who are impacted by conflict and extreme food insecurity driven by the same three factors – climate, politics and economics.
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