Robyn Rowland is an Australian-Irish poet regularly visiting Turkey. She has written twelve books, nine of poetry. Her work appears in national and international journals and in over 40 anthologies, including eight editions of Best Australian Poems. She has read in many countries including, Bosnia, Serbia, Austria, Turkey, Canada, India, and Portugal where she has been published. She was filmed reading for the National Poetry Archives, James Joyce Library UCD Ireland.

Dr Mehmet Ali Çelikel is Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey. He writes on post-colonial and postmodern fiction and translates Robyn Rowland’s poetry.

Stories of Australian, Turkish and Irish men and women in these poems show the intimate nature of war; not from the perspective of victory but from the perspective of those caught up in war, who, whichever side they were on, lost. -- Lisa Gorton

Both the English and Turkish languages face each other across the pages as the men faced each other across narrow spaces between the trenches. ‘In translating impeccably Dr Rowland’s poems into Turkish, Professor M. Ali Çelikel has commendably conveyed the epic depth and literary qualities embodied in the poems’. -- Himmet Umunç