Tantric Goddess is not afraid of vulnerability, raw honesty or wit. In this pamphlet, Rose Rouse takes us on a sexy, funny road trip around Tantric modalities for older people, the importance of flamboyance and the ever-changing (for the better) relationship with her Alzheimer’s-suffering, 90-year-old mother. Yet these poems are never gratuitous; instead, Rouse’s meticulously balanced verses are wry, witty and entirely self-aware. Unabashed, sharply observant, these are poems that teach their reader what it is to truly express oneself.

‘Rose Rouse writes crisp, distinctive fireworks of poems which speed through exotic and ordinary landscapes with a worldliness that doesn’t exclude warmth. They offer some unexpected encounters – via giddy celebrations, matters of the heart and daughterhood – and are stylish objects in themselves, with their wit, boldness and snappy transitions.’ Judy Brown

Wild Land - Ten poems and ten paintings by Rose Rouse and Asanga Judge.

‘There’s something intangibly scrumptious about creating something with one’s beloved. An invisible thread appeared between us as we lived our daily lives, him in N Wales, me in London.

Paintings were sent down the WhatsApp line. I was called upon to respond. Seeing his interpretation of my words was another weave, another tumbling between.’

In A London Safari, Rose uncovers Harlesden where she lives in London, by walking and talking with fellow residents including George The Poet, Amjad/Danny, her newsagent; Faisal Abdu’Allah, artist/barber, and community leader, Leroy Simpson, known in the book as the King of Harlesden and mistress of eccentricity, ex-Gas Meter reader, Sue Saunders.

‘In fact, Rose’s willingness to risk embarrassment is one of her assets as a journalist. She belongs to a category of cultural savants who enjoy grappling with the modern world and who are determined, as a point of principle, to be open to new experiences, even if the price of those experiences is momentary embarrassment.

She has decoded the area for me. In the process she has performed an alchemical act, taking a suburb that is nothing much to look at and imbuing it with a wistful poetry.’ Louis Theroux

Last Letters to Loved Ones. ‘In this compelling and heart-rending collection, author Rose Rouse has brought together a selection of moving and emotional last letters to loved ones. There are achingly innocent yet extremely loving letters from twenty something soldiers who died in Iraq; there are profoundly affecting letters from those who are fatally ill who need to say goodbye to partners, parents or children; and there are letters from death row which naturally sometimes carry a more embittered tone. 22-year-old gunner Lee Thornton from Blackpool was shot on patrol in Basra in 2006. Before he died, he wrote a touching letter to his fiancee, Helen, saying 'You have shown me what love is and what it feels like to be loved.' Captain E F Lubbock was a pilot in World War One. He wrote his last letter to his mother in November 1915, with strict instructions for it to be sent only in the event of his death. Sadly, it had to be posted. He begs his mother to 'try not to let it be too great a blow to you, try and conquer your own sorrow and to live cheerfully. This deeply moving yet uplifting book is an amazing insight into the complexity of human emotions. It is a celebration of life, love and the triumph of the human spirit. ‘

It is every person's - particularly every parent's - worst nightmare. For a loved one to walk out through the front door and never to return is one of the most heartbreaking, terrifying and harrowing experiences someone can go through. Not to know the fate of a person close to you is simply agonising - did they choose to disappear? Were they involved in an accident or did something even worse befall them? Every day in the UK, a staggering 600 people go missing. Most return within 72 hours of disappearing but there are still a large number that are never seen again. In this compelling book, journalist Rose Rouse is granted exclusive access to the mothers, brothers, sons, wives, sisters and daughters of those who have vanished without trace. Take 19-year-old Eddie Gibson who went missing in Cambodia in 2004 - his courageous mother just wants her son back; or Tyler Blake, whose mother went missing when he was three - now eight years old, he desperately misses her and wants her back. Rose shares in the turmoil that they have endured in their quest to be reunited with those who have disappeared from their lives. Click here for more.

Rose met The Thompson Twins when she interviewed them for the music paper, Sounds in the early 80s. Somehow they invited her into their fold - to do their programme notes for tours which involved decadent trips to castles in Ireland. And then there was the biography, which involved long conversations in a sumptuous hotel in Place Vendome, Paris. She still sees Alannah Currie. Please click here for more.