Suzanne Rowley

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Gender Female
Occupation Nurse
Location South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
Introduction I am first & foremost a poet, second a wife & third a nurse, with all other things trailing somewhere behind. Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder in 2008 I was encouraged to keep a log of my moods & what better way than a blog! Here you will find some of my writings, photographs & everyday thoughts, being somewhat clandestine in the past regarding my psychological problems, this blog will serve as a confessional of sorts.
Interests reading, creative writing, poetry, russian literature, listening to jazz, nature, bushwalking, animal rights, vegetarianism, cooking, public health, pain management, primary health care, bipolar disorder, mental health, wound healing, end of life issues, environmental issues, current affairs, french films, learning about architecture, visual art, photography, aromatherapy, massage, sunrises & sunsets, folklore, mythology, philosophy, ethics.
Favorite Movies breaking the waves, the piano, artemisia, jean de florette, dangerous liasons, donnie darko, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the truman show, orlando, the sea inside, the unbearable lightness of being, paris texas, naked, the fisher king, tideland, a room with a view, howard's end, pans labyrinth, in america, girl on the bridge, my own private idaho, in the name of the father, my left foot, hunting & gathering, african queen, sabrina, interview with a vampire, the hours, bridges of madison county, no country for old men, amelie, stand by me, three colours trilogy (esp. blue), the lord of the rings trilogy, the horseman on the roof, camille claudel, the matrix, chocolat, romeo & juliette, moulin rouge, dogville, dancer in the dark, edward scissorhands, what's eating gilbert grape, i capture the castle, moulin rouge, platoon, the deer hunter, apocalypse now, the war zone, the history boys, the savages, house of flying daggers, crouching tiger hidden dragon, hero, spirited away, the science of sleep
Favorite Music jazz, classical, joni mitchell, loreena mckennitt, enya, nina simone, james taylor, johnny cash, niel young, radiohead, bob dylan, leonard cohen, nick cave, REM, the hidden cameras, sinead o'conner, kate bush, beethoven, bach, vivaldi, wagner
Favorite Books catcher in the rye, wuthering heights, anna karenina, breath, heart of darkness, the wings of a dove, wind in the willows, alice in wonderland, winnie-the-pooh, the house at pooh corner, the age of innocence, ethan frome, the road, the alchemist, no country for old men, all the pretty horses, the old man & the sea, the pearl, to the lighthouse, postcards, the shipping news, the idiot, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, on the road, siddhartha, pygmalion, to kill a mockingbird, paddy clarke ha ha, dirt music, cloudstreet, the sound of one hand clapping, grapes of wrath, as i lay dying, tess of the d' Urbevilles, the sound & the fury, atonement, enduring love, works of richard dawkins, Poetry collections, bukowski, thoreau, whitman, t.s.elliot, tennyson, blake, dickinson, plath

What did you want to be when you grew up? a Veternarian