Rosemary Nissen-Wade

Secret Leopard: New and Selected Poems 1974-2005 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Secret Leopard is the book which (in paperback) accompanied Australian poet Rosemary Nissen-Wade to Texas when she was a guest of the Austin International Poetry Festival, Forrest Fest Lamesa, and various other poetry events and venuesand where she acquired an enthusiastic following as "the Poet from Down Under".

"Rosemary Nissen-Wade is both original and a powerful voicea voice of humanity in all its suffering and joy" says the publisher's Preface to the original paperback edition (reproduced in this ebook). "The figures that inhabit her poetry are both intensely real and intensely human. We feel their fragility, their loss, and their sense of wonder and disorientation in the world. These are poems of great immediacy and powerbut the one word that has been, most accurately, used to describe their underlying unity is love."

They date from a time when she was acclaimed within Australia as a dynamic performance poet who was also widely published in hard copy books, journals and anthologies.

Since then Rosemary has found a new audience for her blogs, her digital chapbooks and substantial collaborations with other poets, her poems on twitter, and her several appearances in both electronic and traditional print media.

However her current audience has not been able to enjoy the poetry in Secret Leopard, which also includes major portions of her earlier, out-of-print books, Universe Cat and Small Poems of April. Secret Leopard is now, to all intents and purposes, out of print too. Only a few treasured copies remain in the author's possession.

Both the 'new' and the 'selected' poems have stood the test of time and it's high tine they were made public again by this means.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rosemary Nissen-Wade
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781942005292
• Artikelnr.: 48962302

Autorenporträt

Rosemary Nissen-Wade is an Australian poet, witch, Reiki Master and professional psychic medium as well as a former librarian and book reviewer, and a sometime copy-editor and Creative Writing teacher.

She grew up on the island of Tasmania where, throughout her childhood, the moon shone in through her high, uncurtained bedroom window; so she thinks she was bound to be poetic and magical (and both started from an early age).

She spent much of her adult life in the city of Melbourne, and now lives in a small town in the sub-tropical Northern Rivers region of NSW. She has outlived three husbands and has a number of grown-up children, foster-children and step-children as well as several step-grandchildren.

Author of three volumes of poetry, several e-chapbooks and some collaborations with other poets, she has taught writing in both tertiary institutions and community settings.

Rosemary was one of the founders of the Melbourne Poets Union in the late 1970s, started a program of prison poetry workshops in the early eighties, and was part of a poetry theatre group called Word of Mouth. For a decade she was an independent publisher of Australian poetry, as proprietor of Abalone Press and a member of the Pariah Press Cooperative. She taught Poetry Writing as part of professional writing courses at Holmesglen and Box Hill Colleges of TAFE in Melbourne, and at Victoria College, Toorak (Melbourne) which is now part of Deakin University.

She founded, and for seven years facilitated the very successful WordsFlow writers' group at Pottsville Beach Neighbourhood Centre in far northern NSW, before handing it over to other facilitators who continued it a further three years. In its ten years of operation, a number of members had books published and two began and completed degrees in Professional Writing. More recently she responded to requests for a new writers' group, also at PBNC, for women writers, as part of Pottsville Beach Village of Women (VOW). VOW Writers was one way in which VOW supported and empowered women survivors of various kinds of trauma, and encouraged them to share their talents more widely. The writers' group, the longest-lasting section of VOW, disbanded after four years with the members having got what they needed from it in terms of their writing and their emotional empowerment. They still meet socially from time to time.

Rosemary has long embraced the online poetry world via blogging, ...