The next in Geoff Page’s long-running poetry reading series will feature Robyn Rowland and Adrian Caesar.

Robyn Rowland, an Australian-Irish citizen, has been living between Ireland and Australia for over 30 years, and working, teaching and reading in Türkiye since 2009. From December 2019 until late 2022 she lived back in NSW, caring for her father, who died, aged 102 in 2022. She lives now in Victoria.

She has twelve poetry books (Australia, Ireland and Turkey). Her recent book is Steep Curve (5 Islands Press, 2024). Poems there cover her relationship with her father, through companionship into caring. She has been awarded Australia Council and Copyright Agency grants, and various writing residencies. Robyn has won or been listed for many prizes and her poetry appears in national/international journals in nine countries, fifty anthologies, and eight editions of Best Australian Poems. She has read at major literary festivals in India, Portugal, Ireland, UK, USA, Greece, Austria, Bosnia, Serbia, Turkey and Italy, and is published in translation in a number of these. She is filmed reading for the National Irish Poetry Reading Archive, James Joyce Library, UCD, on YouTube.

Adrian Caesar is the author of thirteen books including non-fiction, fiction and poetry. His experimental non-fiction novel, The White (Picador), won the Victorian Premier’s Award for non-fiction in 2000 and the A.C.T. Book of the Year, 2000. His novel The Blessing (Arcadia, 2015) was longlisted for the Voss Literary Award in 2016 and was followed by A Winter Sowing (Arcadia 2021). He has also published seven volumes of poetry, the latest of which is The Dancing Man (Recent Work Press, 2024). His poems have been short and longlisted for various awards including the Judith Wright Prize, the Dorothy Porter Prize and the University of Canberra International Poetry prize.

No open mic.