Blog:
Rowan Taw’s The Shape of Cow’s Ears
Audio:
Spoken poetry is available on SoundCloud along with The Rowan Tree — a conceptual album inspired by Celtic folk (lyrics, music, and rhythm by Rowan Taw).
Books:
Rooms Without Doors (forthcoming). Dancing Girl Press & Studio).
Saturn Yields to Jupiter (forthcoming). Kelsay Books.
Kempton, H. (2026). Mindfulness through Science and Verse: Finger Pointing at the Moon. Routledge.
An Offering of Tears (2021). In Brigid’s Light: Tending the Ancestral Flame of the Beloved Celtic Goddess. Weiser.
Individual poems published:
Derek Tastes of Earwax (2013). Boston Poetry Magazine, https://bostonpoetry.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/derek-tastes-of-earwax/
Poems published in VerseWrights poetry journal 2013-2017 (versewrights.com/taw-rowan.html):
Jedi skills of Grace, my Chinese- Buddhist sister.
Cafe Opuim .
The wrong vehicle for this town
The Wrong Winter
Betty stays on Modern life
Neighbourly Harvest
The Poetry Troll
Jealous Zephyr
Daisily
Consumer Ignorance
Driftwood
A Decent Butchers
Milk Tears
Office Boy
Sister Mary’s Eyebrows
Self-Immolation
She Wrote Four letters
When
She Descends in Sunshine
Existential Origami
He Nods
Poems published in Mindfulness through Science and Verse: Finger Pointing at the Moon (2026) include:
Sound of the Sun
Phoenix Transforms
End of Summer’s Time
Road to Persuasion
Moorland Love
He Nods
The Wrong Winter
Bramble Fingers
An Orphan Remembers her Mother
Healing Herbs
Cyrus
Milk Tears
Driftwood
Existential Origami
And other Japanese short forms (e.g. haiku, gogyoshi)
Performances:
Bernadette (2025). Performed at the Christian Arts Festival Open Mic (24/10/2025) and exhibited during the Helensville Art Trail, Helensville, New Zealand (24/10/2025 to 02/11/2025).
Heather Kempton 