Rosemary Nissen-Wade — poet, author, memoirist

How exciting: I have a new Amazon page! Click here to see. This has been created in conjunction with the release of two new chapbooks which I've been working on for some time. LIFE AFTER DEATH consists of poems I wrote in the first intense weeks after Andrew's death, chronicling the adjustment to such a radical change in my life. THE IMAGINED OTHER is a series of somonka, love poems in the form of pairs of tanka, each pair forming a conversation between two lovers, like a call and response. They were written for a form challenge at Robert Lee Brewer's 'Poetic Asides' section of Writers' Digest. I wrote some by myself, taking both voices; the rest were collaborations with other poets. These are very short books — but, I hope, not slight! They are ebooks. I don't intend to produce them as paperbacks. My Amazon page, set up by my publisher, surprised me in a couple of ways. For one thing, I found out I am included in a Bibliography of Australian L

While you eagerly await the virtual launch of SHE TOO, why not entertain yourselves watching our book trailer?

Step one: Acknowledge the person and site that involved you in the blog tour. That's the wonderful — and busy! — Canadian poet, Pearl Pirie, whom I met online years ago when we both responded to a month of poetry challenges at John Hewett’s site, then known as  Writer’s Resource Centre  and now an extremely useful archive. Pearl's own blog tour astounded me just now, when I read about all of her activities! (And that's just the literary ones.) Step two: Answer the 4 questions below about your writing process: 1) What am I working on?   There are two collaborative poetry collections. The main one is a year-long collaboration with three other poets, Aussies Jennie Fraine and Helen Patrice, and Brit Michele Brenton. It's a renshi, a Japanese form consisting of a series of linked poems. As we write them, we're posting them on a blog, "Poems by the Followers", and our intention is to turn them into a book. I am already enthralled by the w