Friday 24 May
1.00pm – 2.00pm.
The Linen Hall, Belfast, BT1 5GB
Tickets £8.00 at Door or book online here…
Robyn Rowland is an award-winning poet of dual Irish-Australian citizen, who has lived between Australia, Ireland and Turkey for over thirty years. In Turkey she has been teaching and writing and has given many workshops there, as well as bi-lingual readings with her translator Professor Dr Mehmet Ali Çelikel. Her poetry has been published in national and international journals and in over forty anthologies. She has published nine collections of poetry, most recently Drift (Doire Press, 2015), a bilingual collection, The Intimate War Gallipoli/Canakkale (Five Islands Press, 2015) and Under this Saffron Sun (Knocknarone Press, 2019). Robyn has won Catalpa Poetry / Writers Prizes from the Australian-Irish Heritage Association, the Jean Stone Poetry Prize and the Poetica Christi Poetry Prize.
Lynda Tavakoli is an award-winning writer from Co Down who divides her time between Northern Ireland and Oman, where her husband has worked. Her poetry and prose have been published in many anthologies, journals and online publications in Ireland and the UK, and they have been translated into Farsi for the anthologies, Where Are You From? and Persian Sugar in English Tea. She has written two novels, Attachment and Of Broken Things, and a short story collection, Under a Cold White Moon (David James Publishing). Her poetry collection, The Boiling Point for Jam, was published by Arlen House to critical acclaim in 2020. In recent times Lynda has won The Westival International Poetry Prize, The Listowel Poetry Prize, The National Anthology Regional Award, The Irish Times NIE Poet of the Month award.