
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

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