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 poet and editor, this is a sentiment I’ve heard expressed more than once, albeit less bluntly. And I can’t help thinking that it’s a very modern question: our twenty-first century […]

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 that Never Was. Unfortunately the Sydney launch of The Density of Compact Bone was impacted by COVID, Rochford Street Review is able to finally publish Denise O’Hagan’s speech which would have launched the collection. 

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 … boys and girls just like her, skipped and hopped and jumped to the beat of the music, dancing as they tried to reach the ripe, swollen mulberries hanging over

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 Byzantium: Kings, Symbols, and Cities traces the history of Christian Byzantium through a meticulous examination of the origins of specific ancient cities, and the symbolic import of their art and

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