Book Launch: "Steep Curve"
Sat, 09 Nov
|Thirroul Community Centre
This event is a must for anyone with an interest in poetry, or who is dealing with caring for an ageing parent: a rare opportunity to join two of Australia's leading poets in conversation about Robyn's new book, which deals unflinchingly with the joys and challenges of this deeply human task.
Time & Location
09 Nov 2024, 3:00 pm
Thirroul Community Centre, 352/358 Lawrence Hargrave Dr, Thirroul NSW 2515, Australia
About the event
THE BOOK
STEEP CURVE is a book of final father poems. Returning to Australia from Ireland, December 2019, the poet sees her active, independent father, almost 100, beginning to age. The two, initially uncertain what’s happening, live together two and a half years, and during covid lockdown. They share the poet’s childhood home, which her father built 65 years before. Her sole caring grows their relationship through physical and emotional challenges, anger, frustration, loss and love.
THE PARTICIPANTS
ROBYN ROWLAND is the author of Steep Curve. Robyn is an Australian-Irish citizen who has been living between Ireland and Australia for over 30 years, and working, teaching and reading in Turkey since 2009. She has published poetry in all three of these countries: this is her twelfth poetry book.
Robyn has been awarded Australia Council and Copyright Agency grants, and various writing residencies. She has won or been listed for many…