Warm thanks to the North Sydney Sun for the article by Hannah Wilcox marking the start of my residency at the historic Don Bank Museum, North Sydney! I’m deeply grateful to the North Sydney Council for this precious opportunity!

Ramblesby Beatriz CopelloGinninderra PressSeptember 2023, Paperback, 78 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1761095993 Review in Compulsive Reader, February 2024 If ‘rambles’ conjures up ideas of pleasant strolls through the countryside with a suggestion of aimlessness or circuitry, you are in for a surprise with Beatriz Copello’s latest poetry collection, released in 2023 by Ginninderra Press. While making forays

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 between states is not new, but remains powerful. ‘Poetry,’ wrote Heaney back in 1988, ‘is more a threshold than a path, one constantly approached and constantly departed from, at which

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 probably seeing my parents writing that got me started. When I was still at school, I remember my mother typing at the kitchen table, paper everywhere – she’d started writing

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.  If you picked up this debut collection with its elegant, slightly teasing cover depicting three artfully placed feathers, you’d be forgiven for thinking A Triptych of Birds and A Few Loose