Title
Cowman, Roz
Description
Bibliographic Dictionary Entry
Date
1942
Creator
O'Toole, Tina
Source
Munster Women Writers Project, University College Cork
Publisher
Women in Irish Society Project, University College Cork
Rights
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Coverage
Munster, 1800-2000
Format
Text
Language
en
Type
Text
Subject
Cowman, Roz
Contributor
O'Toole, Tina
Birth Date
1942
Birthplace
Co Cork
Place of Association
Clonmel, Co Tipperary
Cork City
Biographical Text
Roz Cowman was born in Cork in 1942 and grew up in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Educated locally at the Loreto Convent, she graduated from UCC with a BA. She travelled to Africa in the 1960s and taught in Kenya and Nigeria 1963-70. She was first published in 1975 in the Cork Examiner, since when she has published poetry and reviews in a variety of periodicals including Poetry Ireland, the America Women's Review of Books, Graph, Southword and the Examiner. She won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry in 1985 and was granted Arts Council bursaries in 1982 and 1990. Her celebrated collection, The Goose Herd, was published in 1989. More recently, she took an MA at UCC where she carried out research on George Moore. Roz continues to live and work in Cork, where she is well-known as an inspirational teacher of literature and creative writing to adult students throughout the city. [Ros, Róisín]
Writing Genre
Poetry
Literary Criticism