Rosemary Nissen-Wade

• Age: 70
• Gender: Female
• Astrological Sign: Scorpio
• Zodiac Year: Rabbit
• Occupation: Poet / Teacher of Metaphysics
• Location: Far north coast : New South Wales : Australia

About Me

Born and grew Launceston, Tasmania. Lived many years in Melbourne before going happily sub-tropical in 1994. Career in librarianship 1962-1980. Helped start Poets Union of Australia in the late seventies. Pioneered poetry workshops in prisons in the early eighties. Formed Word of Mouth Poetry Theatre with Anita Sinclair, Ken Smeaton, Malcolm Brodie, 1986. Studied Ceremonial Magic, Shamanism and Druidry before coming home to Witchcraft. Cat lover (and certain very special dogs). Books: Universe Cat (Melbourne, Pariah Press, 1985, OP). Small Poems of April (Three Bridges, Vic., Abalone Press, 1991, OP). Secret Leopard: New and Selected Poems 1974-2005 (Paris, Alyscamps Press, 2005, ISBN 0-9764509-1-7) Names: born Rosemary Robinson; married names Rosemary Freeman (briefly), Rosemary Nissen (longterm), Rosemary Wade (current); professional name, as writer /editor / writing teacher, and as metaphysical teacher and counsellor, Rosemary Nissen-Wade; witch name DragonStar Rose.

You're wearing a sweater that stretches down to your feet. What color belt do you put on?

Purple or black of course, to match the sweater.

Interests

• Art
• literature
• healing
• magick
• travel
• love
• sex
• theatre
• movies
• TV shows
• word puzzles
• people
• animals
• world peace
• the environment
• imagination.

Favorite Movies

• Hero
• Empire of the Sun
• He Who Must Die
• Les Enfants du Paradis
• Quiet Flows the Don trilogy (Russian-made)
• the very first Star Wars movie
• The Seventh Seal
• Lord of the Rings
• all the Harry Potter films so far
• Withnail and I
• Dr Zhivago
• Raintree County
• The Mortal Storm
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Chasing Amy

Favorite Music

• Blues
• grand opera
• folk
• jazz
• some rock
• all of Elvis and the Beatles.

Favorite Books

• Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
• all poetry books and novels by Marge Piercy
• The Little Prince
• Conversations with God 1-3
• The Prophet
• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
• Portrait of a Lady
• Middlemarch
• Work; for the Night is Coming (poetry) by Jared Carter
• The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee
• everything by: Alexandre Dumas; E. M. Almedingen; Elizabeth Goudge; Pamela Frankau; John Masters; Charles de Lint; Orson Scott Card
• nearly everything by Ursula Le Guin and Tanith Lee.