
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 navigating the often ambiguous transition

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 the most? Denise: It was

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 Rochford Street Review, 5 September 2022.

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 Writers NSW Inc. As a

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 2021. Launch speech for a Launch

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 his instrument. All around him

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 Ancient Near East to Christian

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 book published. Did you enter contests?

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 Aotearoa When considering the rich

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 left with which later comes

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, he returned to Australia in

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 book came about, the relationship

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 and appeared in The Blue

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 December. Mark’s books include The Blue Plateau and Fire Diary; his awards, an

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 (Seren, 2013), and Mortal (2006).

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 This Saffron Sun – Safran

Judith Beveridge in conversation with Denise O’Hagan
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

An Astráil editor Denise O’Hagan’s selection for Issue 43
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
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

Denise O’Hagan in conversation with Peter Boyle
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

Denise O’Hagan ‘How did you come to write?’
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,

An Astráil editor Denise O’Hagan’s editorial for Issue 42
Editorial for The Blue Nib, Issue 42. Our reading habits, we are told, have substantially changed during the pandemic – and that includes poetry. We

Denise O’Hagan on the depth of poetry and her selections for Issue 41
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

Denise O’Hagan reads ‘Before the party’ from her collection, ‘The Beating Heart’
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

Denise O’Hagan in conversation with Amanda McLeod
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

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

How to submit your work to literary magazines
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

Denise O’Hagan interviews poet Anthony Lawrence
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.

Denise O’Hagan interviews poet Peter Bakowski
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