Poetry

Blog:

Rowan Taw’s The Shape of Cow’s Ears

And on Soundcloud

Books:

Saturn Yields to Jupiter (forthcoming). Alabaster Leaves Publishing.

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

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).