Denise O’Hagan

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 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 …

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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 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 …

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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.  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 …

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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 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 …

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