Essay: Poetry and the language of seduction
Published in Kalliopex, Issue 8, 2026 by DENISE O’HAGAN Poetry, at its best, casts a spell over us, bewitching us…
Denise O’Hagan reviews The Heart of the Advocate by Angela Costi
The Heart of the Advocate by Angela Costi, Liquid Amber Press 2025. Justice must not be confused with law.………………………………………….. –…
Denise O’Hagan interviewed by Irveen Kaur of Novelly
What first drew you to poetry as your primary form of creative expression? How it both distills and extends experience.…
Denise O’Hagan announced Writer in Residence, Don Bank Museum, North Sydney, 2024
Warm thanks to the North Sydney Sun for the article by Hannah Wilcox marking the start of my residency at…
Denise O’Hagan reviews ‘Rambles’ by Beatriz Copello
Ramblesby Beatriz CopelloGinninderra PressSeptember 2023, Paperback, 78 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1761095993 Review in Compulsive Reader, February 2024 If ‘rambles’ conjures up…
Denise O’Hagan reviews ‘thesholds’ by Philip Radmall
Published in Compulsive Reader 13 Jan. 2023 The idea of poets situating themselves in the realm of the liminal and…
Fevers of the Mind speaks with Denise O’Hagan
A Fevers of the Mind Quick-9 Interview with Denise O’Hagan Q1: When did you start writing and who influenced you…
Denise O’Hagan reviews ‘A Triptych of Birds and A Few Loose Feathers’ by Pratibha Castle
A Triptych of Birds and A Few Loose Feathers by Pratibha Castle, Hedgehog Poetry Press 2022 Originally published in the…
Denise O’Hagan essay: Poetry – what’s the point of that?
First published by Australian Classical Education Society, 1 July, 2022. Republished by Women’s Ink!, Spring/Summer 2022, The Society of Women…
Denise O’Hagan launches ‘The Density of Compact Bone’ by Magdalena Ball
Originally Published in the Rochford Street Review, 19 April 2022. The Density of Compact Bone by Magdalena Ball Ginninderra Press…
Denise O’Hagan reviews ‘Soumela and the Magic Kemenche’ by Dean Kalimniou
Originally published in NEOS KOSMOS. ‘She came upon the old man, sitting at the foot of a mulberry tree, playing…
Denise O’Hagan reviews ‘From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium’ by Mario Baghos (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2021)
Denise O’Hagan reviews: From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium by Mario Baghos As its title suggests, From the…
Sapling speaks with Denise O’Hagan
Sapling’s Emerging Writer Series (Black Lawrence Press)Sapling #596, 26 April 2021 Sapling: Tell us about the process of getting your…
Guest Editorial: Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, Australia – New Zealand, May 2021
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…
Denise O’Hagan reviews ‘Wide River’ by Jane Frank (Calanthe Press 2020)
Published in the Rochford Street Review. In every poetry collection, there is one aspect, one overwhelming impression, that we are…
David Malouf in conversation with Denise O’Hagan
Widely considered one of Australia’s finest writers, David Malouf was born in 1934. After teaching in Britain in the sixties,…
Compulsive Reader talks with Denise O’Hagan
Denise O’Hagan reads from and talks about her poetry book The Beating Heart. This covers such things as how the…
Denise O’Hagan in conversation with Audrey Molloy
Published in The Blue Nib. Audrey Molloy is an Irish poet based in Sydney. Her work has been widely published…
Mark Tredinnick in conversation with Denise O’Hagan
Mark Tredinnick’s third collection, A Gathered Distance (BirdFish), appeared in February 2020; his fourth, Walking Underwater (Pitt Street), surfaces in…
Ivy Alvarez in conversation with Denise O’Hagan
Ivy Alvarez is the author of Diaspora: Vol. L (Paloma Press, 2019), The Everyday English Dictionary (Paekakariki Press, 2016), Disturbance…
Robyn Rowland in Conversation with Denise O’Hagan
Robyn Rowland has 14 books, of which 11 are poetry, including Mosaics from the Map (Doire Press, Ireland 2018). Under…
