Denise O'Hagan
@deniseohagan.bsky.social
Poet/editor • Monica Taylor Poetry Prize • NSW Poetry Prize • Dalkey Poetry Prize • Anamnesis (Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist & Rubery Book Award shortlist) • Currently Writer-in-Residence at Don Bank Museum • denise-ohagan.com
'Odysseus is a great musician; he wishes to and must listen; he has himself tied to the mast. The motif of the artist, who will lay down his life rather than renounce his interest. I am almost afraid to treat such a theme; it's overwhelming.' James Joyce, The London Magazine
'Perhaps the moon is a frozen tear...' Anne Sexton :)
Antique book with filigree silver binding, c. 1690s 🌿
Just a week left to submit your very best poetry to #TheMarrowPoetry Issue Eight! Please read the submission guidelines carefully. We very much look forward to reading your work 🤩 themarrowpoetry.com/submissions #submissioncall #internationalpoetry #poetrycommunity
Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' illustration, 1959 by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson #WomensArt
The New Zealand Poetry Society competition results are in, chosen from over 600 international entries! Honoured to have my poem 'Chimera' highly commended, and congratulations to all ✨ You can read the judge's comments and winning poems at the NZPS website 🤩 #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #nzps
Lebowitz on 'the most exhausting profession' :) 'Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you.'
'Poets on Poetry' is published - a deep dive into what practising poets think of the process of writing poetry. Gratitude to publisher & editor MarK Ulyseas for including my piece among the fascinating angles on this subject :) #poetrycommunity #processofpoetry #poetrywriting
“The Day Lady Died” by Frank O’Hara — Billie Holiday, who died on July 17, 1959: "and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing"
‘O’Hagan is that rare beast, a Latinist who is perfectly at home with the story’s first century BC background.' - David Wishart, historical crime writer #HistoricalCrimeFiction A Roman Death available now! 🤩 Recommended by #USReviewofBooks & #PublishersWeekly 💫 blackquillpress.com/independent-...
Jorge Luis Borges by Ferdinando Scianna Palermo, Sicily, 1984 "Somehow the central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry." - "The Poet's Creed" #WorldPoetryDay
Always good for the Oz book trade to take stock now and then I feel. Today @kydmagazine.bsky.social brings a nice wide range of voices together to reflect on the industry’s health, or otherwise… www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/shou...
Should We Be Publishing Fewer Books in Australia?
With growing calls to address the sustainability of local literature, we asked people across the book industry their thoughts on the pace of Australian publishing.
killyourdarlings.com.au
“The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here." Seamus Heaney, from Station Island (1984)
The Librarian, although it could be any of my friends, really. Doing wild things with books, courtesy of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who died (alas!) OTD in 1593.
Rochford Street Review Issue 44. Obedience, coercion & the ability to push back: Mark Roberts reviews ‘A Simple Intervention’ by Yael Inokai, translated by Marielle Sutherland rochfordstreetreview.com/2026/07/11/o...
Obedience, coercion & the ability to push back: Mark Roberts reviews ‘A Simple Intervention’ by Yael Inokai
A simple Intervention is a powerful allegory of obedience and coercion and the ability to push back. The narrative is sparse and simple yet driven by a strong filmic imagery.
rochfordstreetreview.com
Ngā mihi o te tau hau! ✨ Massive congratulations to the writers with stories selected for the takahē Matariki Short Short Story Celebration 2026, and thanks to everyone who sent their words our way! We’re looking forward to sharing the 9 selected stories in the August issue of takahē. ✨
Grateful to The Atlantic for running this poem from my new collection, out in 10 days from Norton. I'm teaching a FREE class on July 25th at 1 PM as thank you for anyone who pre-orders the book. myfivethings.com/class/maya-c...
This poem by Dan Albergotti feels like a manual, a self-help guide A metaphor for what it feels like to be trapped Rather than an escape plan it focuses on how the mind adapts to the situation by creating routine inside chaos, by trying to make sense of the extraordinary #poetry #poemoftheday
The #MarrowPoetry is open for submissions for Issue Eight! We can't wait to read your very best work 🤩 Find out more at: themarrowpoetry.com/submissions #poetrycommunity #submissioncall #poetryjournal
We're pleased to present Abridged 0 - 110: Parallax. Read it for free at www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... The print edition will be available in Libraries throughout N. Ireland and at the usual places soon. We'll see you in Void Gallery in Derry on Saturday night from 6pm! Image by Marisol Mendez.
Psychology of Composition The paper is mineral where the verse is written down the verse which is possible not to write They are mineral the flowers and plants the fruits, animals when in the state of words The horizon is mineral our names, these things made of words - João Cabral de Melo Neto
poemakontsa@poemakontsa.bsky.social · 2mo agoReading a poem from youth Brazilian João Cabral de Melo Neto called Psicologia da Composição, Psychology of Composition, on the writing of poetry, that is just exquisite.
A bit of Sappho, translated by Geoff Burling. alliteration.net/poetry/sappho/ #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse #sappho #classicsky #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity
Apud Sappho -- Geoff Burley translates a fragment of Sappho into modern English alliterative verse
... whose soft walk and sunlit face / I'd rather see than armored infantry / or Lydia's chariots charging about / in bright array ...
alliteration.net
