Published in Compulsive Reader 13 Jan. 2023 The idea of poets situating themselves in the realm of the liminal and navigating the often ambiguous transition

A Fevers of the Mind Quick-9 Interview with Denise O’Hagan Q1: When did you start writing and who influenced you the most?  Denise: It was

A Triptych of Birds and A Few Loose Feathers by Pratibha Castle, Hedgehog Poetry Press 2022 Originally published in the Rochford Street Review, 5 September 2022. 

First published by Australian Classical Education Society, 1 July, 2022. Republished by Women’s Ink!, Spring/Summer 2022, The Society of Women Writers NSW Inc. As a

Originally Published in the Rochford Street Review, 19 April 2022. The Density of Compact Bone by Magdalena Ball Ginninderra Press 2021. Launch speech for a Launch

Originally published in NEOS KOSMOS. ‘She came upon the old man, sitting at the foot of a mulberry tree, playing his instrument. All around him

Denise O’Hagan reviews: From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium by Mario Baghos As its title suggests, From the Ancient Near East to Christian

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?

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

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

Widely considered one of Australia’s finest writers, David Malouf was born in 1934. After teaching in Britain in the sixties, he returned to Australia in

Denise O’Hagan reads from and talks about her poetry book The Beating Heart. This covers such things as how the book came about, the relationship

Published in The Blue Nib. Audrey Molloy is an Irish poet based in Sydney. Her work has been widely published and appeared in The Blue

Mark Tredinnick’s third collection, A Gathered Distance (BirdFish), appeared in February 2020; his fourth, Walking Underwater (Pitt Street), surfaces in December. Mark’s books include The Blue Plateau and Fire Diary; his awards, an

Ivy Alvarez is the author of Diaspora: Vol. L (Paloma Press, 2019), The Everyday English Dictionary (Paekakariki Press, 2016), Disturbance (Seren, 2013), and Mortal (2006).

Robyn Rowland has 14 books, of which 11 are poetry, including Mosaics from the Map (Doire Press, Ireland 2018). Under This Saffron Sun – Safran

Judith Beveridge is a Sydney-based poet and recipient of multiple awards, including the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for Poetry (2019), the Christopher Brennan Award for

Editorial for The Blue Nib, Issue 43. In selecting poetry for this Issue, I was reminded yet again of the particular form of magic that

Six Questions for Denise O’Hagan, Poetry Editor Australia & NZ, The Blue Nib Literary Magazine   Jim Harrington’s Blog, 31 July 2019 The Blue Nib

Ahead of appearing in Issue 43 of The Blue Nib, Australian poet, Peter Boyle speaks to Denise O’Hagan about his early influences, the poets who

The Write Life with Clare Morris It’s a question any writer is asked – how did you come to write in the first place? Truthfully,

Editorial for The Blue Nib, Issue 42. Our reading habits, we are told, have substantially changed during the pandemic – and that includes poetry. We

Editorial for The Blue Nib, Issue 41. The last months have been a testing time for Australia and, to a lesser extent, New Zealand. Ravaged

From The Ink Pods, Podcast for The Blue Nib. It must have just stopped rainingWhen we arrived. The road, licked for hoursBy the quiet slap

Amanda McLeod writes and makes art. She loves everything about creativity, which is why she is also Managing Editor of Animal Heart Press, and Art

Angela Costi is the author of four collections of poetry: Dinted Halos (Hit & Miss Publications, 2003), Prayers for the Wicked (Floodtide Audio and Sunshine

Denise O’Hagan, editor of the An Astráil column at The Blue Nib, explains what you need to consider when submitting to literary journals. This article

Anthony Lawrence has published fifteen books of poems and a novel. His most recent collection, Headwaters, won the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry.

Born premature, with a hole in the heart, on 15 October 1954, to Polish-German, delicatessen-running parents in Melbourne, Australia, Peter Bakowski fell in love with