Robyn Rowland, an Irish-Australian citizen, lives half-time in Ireland. She visits and works in Turkey. She has written twelve books, nine of poetry. Robyn’s poetry appears in national and international journals and in over forty anthologies, including eight editions of The Best Australian Poems. She has read in many countries including, Bosnia, Serbia, Austria, Turkey, India, and Portugal. Her 10th book Mosaics from the Map (Doire Press, Ireland), will be out in 2018. Her latest books in 2015 were Line of Drift (Doire Press, Ireland) and her bi-lingual This Intimate War Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 – İçli Dışlı Bir Savaş: Gelibolu/Çanakkale 1915, Turkish translations Mehmet Ali Çelikel (forthcoming reprint Spinifex Press, 2018). Robyn was filmed reading for the National Irish Poetry Archives, James Joyce Library University College Dublin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7KfJL_otFc.