May 2021

Sapling’s Emerging Writer Series (Black Lawrence Press)Sapling #596, 26 April 2021  Sapling: Tell us about the process of getting your book published. Did you enter contests? Open reading periods? What transpired between sending the manuscript out initially and its acceptance by your publisher? Denise O’Hagan: To be honest, I had no thoughts of publishing my own […]

Special edition featuring poets from Australia & New Zealand. https://liveencounters.net/2021/04/22/live-encounters-poetry-writing-australia-new-zealand-may-2021/ Capturing the Spirit: Contemporary poetry from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa When considering the rich and varied stream of submissions from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa, I was struck by how many were so universal and timeless both in theme and style that they transcended

Published in the Rochford Street Review. In every poetry collection, there is one aspect, one overwhelming impression, that we are left with which later comes to define it for us. In Frank’s Wide River, it is the poet’s quiet insistence on reawakening us to the essential wonder of our world that stays with us. In