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
Happy that my poem 'How to ferment your past’ is longlisted in this year’s Live Canon Single Poem Competition, in sparkling company! 🙏
livecanon.co.uk/.../product/... Thanks to the judge Nina Murray, and congrats to all! 🎉#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetiton #livecanonpoemcompetition
livecanon.co.uk/.../product/... Thanks to the judge Nina Murray, and congrats to all! 🎉#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetiton #livecanonpoemcompetition
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Happy that my poem 'How to ferment your past’ is longlisted in this year’s Live Canon Single Poem Competition, in sparkling company! 🙏
livecanon.co.uk/.../product/... Thanks to the judge Nina Murray, and congrats to all! 🎉#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetiton #livecanonpoemcompetition
livecanon.co.uk/.../product/... Thanks to the judge Nina Murray, and congrats to all! 🎉#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetiton #livecanonpoemcompetition
Delighted and grateful that my poem ‘The Icon Painter of Constantinople’ was highly commended in the Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize 2025, theme 'Belonging'. Congrats to all and gratitude to the judges! 🙏
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#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetiton #acupoetryprize
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#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetiton #acupoetryprize
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Delighted and grateful that my poem ‘The Icon Painter of Constantinople’ was highly commended in the Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize 2025, theme 'Belonging'. Congrats to all and gratitude to the judges! 🙏
acu.edu.au/.../office-o...
#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetiton #acupoetryprize
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#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetiton #acupoetryprize
#TheMarrowInternationalPoetry is one of the most exciting international poetry journals around. I’m thrilled to be joining it as editor working with Judith Beveridge and founding members Audrey Molloy & Daragh Byrne!
Submissions for Issue Six open 1 November! 🤩
#poetrycommunity #PoetryJournal
Submissions for Issue Six open 1 November! 🤩
#poetrycommunity #PoetryJournal
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
#TheMarrowInternationalPoetry is one of the most exciting international poetry journals around. I’m thrilled to be joining it as editor working with Judith Beveridge and founding members Audrey Molloy & Daragh Byrne!
Submissions for Issue Six open 1 November! 🤩
#poetrycommunity #PoetryJournal
Submissions for Issue Six open 1 November! 🤩
#poetrycommunity #PoetryJournal
Honoured to have my third #poetry #manuscript in the 5 Islands Press list for 2026–7! Thanks to #5IslandsPress and congratulations to all 🤩 My gratitude also to Amanda Hudson of North Sydney Council and my mentor Rebecca Goss 🙏
#poetrycommunity #PoetryPublishing
#poetrycommunity #PoetryPublishing
October 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Honoured to have my third #poetry #manuscript in the 5 Islands Press list for 2026–7! Thanks to #5IslandsPress and congratulations to all 🤩 My gratitude also to Amanda Hudson of North Sydney Council and my mentor Rebecca Goss 🙏
#poetrycommunity #PoetryPublishing
#poetrycommunity #PoetryPublishing
Delighted to have my poem ‘Larthia speaks’ selected for Given Words (National Poetry Day NZ) – huge thanks to Charles Olsen, Sophia Wilson and Pat White 🙏 You can read all the poems at: nzgivenwords.blogspot.com/2025/09/ #nzpoetryday #givenwords #poetrycommunity #regolinigalassitomb
September 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Delighted to have my poem ‘Larthia speaks’ selected for Given Words (National Poetry Day NZ) – huge thanks to Charles Olsen, Sophia Wilson and Pat White 🙏 You can read all the poems at: nzgivenwords.blogspot.com/2025/09/ #nzpoetryday #givenwords #poetrycommunity #regolinigalassitomb
Pleased to have a poem in this year's anthology of shortlisted entries from the #ArtemesiaArts Poetry Competition! Gratitude to the editors and the judge Jo Bell. ‘Sea of Serenity’ (Mosaique Press) is available at Amazon :)
#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition
#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition
September 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Pleased to have a poem in this year's anthology of shortlisted entries from the #ArtemesiaArts Poetry Competition! Gratitude to the editors and the judge Jo Bell. ‘Sea of Serenity’ (Mosaique Press) is available at Amazon :)
#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition
#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition
'Justice must not be confused with law.'
It was an honour and no small responsibility to review Angela Costi’s most ambitious collection to date, ‘The Heart of the Advocate’ (#LiquidAmberPress). The review is published in @rochfordstreview.bsky.social :)
#poetrybookreview #poetrycommunity #advocacy
It was an honour and no small responsibility to review Angela Costi’s most ambitious collection to date, ‘The Heart of the Advocate’ (#LiquidAmberPress). The review is published in @rochfordstreview.bsky.social :)
#poetrybookreview #poetrycommunity #advocacy
August 26, 2025 at 5:23 AM
'Justice must not be confused with law.'
It was an honour and no small responsibility to review Angela Costi’s most ambitious collection to date, ‘The Heart of the Advocate’ (#LiquidAmberPress). The review is published in @rochfordstreview.bsky.social :)
#poetrybookreview #poetrycommunity #advocacy
It was an honour and no small responsibility to review Angela Costi’s most ambitious collection to date, ‘The Heart of the Advocate’ (#LiquidAmberPress). The review is published in @rochfordstreview.bsky.social :)
#poetrybookreview #poetrycommunity #advocacy
The 2025 Winter Edition of the New Zealand Poetry Society's journal 'a fine line' is out! Gratitude to editor Cadence Chung for including my poem ‘Eavesdropping’ among a formidable array of work! :)
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#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #newzealandpoetry
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#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #newzealandpoetry
August 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The 2025 Winter Edition of the New Zealand Poetry Society's journal 'a fine line' is out! Gratitude to editor Cadence Chung for including my poem ‘Eavesdropping’ among a formidable array of work! :)
www.poetrysociety.org.nz/afl-home/alf...
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #newzealandpoetry
www.poetrysociety.org.nz/afl-home/alf...
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #newzealandpoetry
Closing the studio door for the last time … so ends my residency at Don Bank Museum! Gratitude to the supportive staff at #NorthSydneyCouncil and #StantonLibrary 🙏 For details on future residency applications, keep an eye on the Council's website 💐
#writingcommunity #writerinresidence #donbankmuseum
#writingcommunity #writerinresidence #donbankmuseum
August 7, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Closing the studio door for the last time … so ends my residency at Don Bank Museum! Gratitude to the supportive staff at #NorthSydneyCouncil and #StantonLibrary 🙏 For details on future residency applications, keep an eye on the Council's website 💐
#writingcommunity #writerinresidence #donbankmuseum
#writingcommunity #writerinresidence #donbankmuseum
Thrilled to be speaking with Vanessa Proctor at a poetry-centred afternoon at #TheStateLibraryofNSW on 13 August! I'll be exploring 'Poetry and the Language of Seduction' - gratitude to #TheSocietyofWomenWritersNSW🙏 Full details at the Society's website :)
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
July 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Thrilled to be speaking with Vanessa Proctor at a poetry-centred afternoon at #TheStateLibraryofNSW on 13 August! I'll be exploring 'Poetry and the Language of Seduction' - gratitude to #TheSocietyofWomenWritersNSW🙏 Full details at the Society's website :)
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
Gratified to have poems in the centenary issue of 'Women's Ink!', the Society of Women Writers NSW magazine - gratitude to the editors. 'Reframing Daphne' was first published on the Keats-Shelley Prize website where it was shortlisted 🤩
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #societyofwomenwritersnsw
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #societyofwomenwritersnsw
July 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Gratified to have poems in the centenary issue of 'Women's Ink!', the Society of Women Writers NSW magazine - gratitude to the editors. 'Reframing Daphne' was first published on the Keats-Shelley Prize website where it was shortlisted 🤩
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #societyofwomenwritersnsw
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #societyofwomenwritersnsw
Delighted to participate in poetry panel ‘The Making of a Poem’, with Anne Casey and Colleen Keating, deftly moderated by Michele Seminara. Gratitude to the Society of Women Writers NSW and Willoughby City Library!
#poetrycommunity #poetryconversation #societyofwomenwritersnsw #willoughbycitylibrary
#poetrycommunity #poetryconversation #societyofwomenwritersnsw #willoughbycitylibrary
July 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Delighted to participate in poetry panel ‘The Making of a Poem’, with Anne Casey and Colleen Keating, deftly moderated by Michele Seminara. Gratitude to the Society of Women Writers NSW and Willoughby City Library!
#poetrycommunity #poetryconversation #societyofwomenwritersnsw #willoughbycitylibrary
#poetrycommunity #poetryconversation #societyofwomenwritersnsw #willoughbycitylibrary
A pantoum is hard enough to write but translating it can throw up fiendish challenges! Excited to receive Correnti Incrociate 5 (Mosaique Press) with the translation of two of my poems into Italian as part of #theSalernoproject🤩
#MosaiquePress #poetryanthology #bilingualpoetry
#MosaiquePress #poetryanthology #bilingualpoetry
July 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A pantoum is hard enough to write but translating it can throw up fiendish challenges! Excited to receive Correnti Incrociate 5 (Mosaique Press) with the translation of two of my poems into Italian as part of #theSalernoproject🤩
#MosaiquePress #poetryanthology #bilingualpoetry
#MosaiquePress #poetryanthology #bilingualpoetry
Looking forward to unravelling #poetry with wonderful poets Anne Casey & Colleen Keating at the 'The Making of a Poem - Reading & Panel Discussion’, 18 July, 3.15 pm, Chatswood Library! Gratitude to The Society of Women Writers NSW Inc and Willoughby City Library #poetrycommunity #poetryevent
July 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Looking forward to unravelling #poetry with wonderful poets Anne Casey & Colleen Keating at the 'The Making of a Poem - Reading & Panel Discussion’, 18 July, 3.15 pm, Chatswood Library! Gratitude to The Society of Women Writers NSW Inc and Willoughby City Library #poetrycommunity #poetryevent
'Faced with overwhelming evidence, including accusations of witchcraft and incest, Fufidius retains the services of Cicero to save Helvia...'
So writes @tallandtrue.bsky.social of #historicalthriller A Roman Death :) www.tallandtrue.com.au/reviews/book...
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So writes @tallandtrue.bsky.social of #historicalthriller A Roman Death :) www.tallandtrue.com.au/reviews/book...
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June 30, 2025 at 5:03 AM
'Faced with overwhelming evidence, including accusations of witchcraft and incest, Fufidius retains the services of Cicero to save Helvia...'
So writes @tallandtrue.bsky.social of #historicalthriller A Roman Death :) www.tallandtrue.com.au/reviews/book...
Details: blackquillpress.com/independent-...
So writes @tallandtrue.bsky.social of #historicalthriller A Roman Death :) www.tallandtrue.com.au/reviews/book...
Details: blackquillpress.com/independent-...
Jerome & His Women (Black Quill Press) - the first historical fiction about the controversial St Jerome, meticulously researched and warmly reviewed - is available at major online bookstores. Further details at:
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#historicalfiction #EarlyChristianity #saintjerome
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#historicalfiction #EarlyChristianity #saintjerome
June 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Jerome & His Women (Black Quill Press) - the first historical fiction about the controversial St Jerome, meticulously researched and warmly reviewed - is available at major online bookstores. Further details at:
blackquillpress.com/independent-...
#historicalfiction #EarlyChristianity #saintjerome
blackquillpress.com/independent-...
#historicalfiction #EarlyChristianity #saintjerome
Issue 4 of The Marrow Poetry is out, lighting up a chilly Sunday evening! Honoured to have ‘Bambola’ included in sparkling company - gratitude to editors Audrey Molloy, Daragh Byrne and Natalie Bühler 🙏
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#poetrycommunity #themarrowpoetry #poetryaboutdolls
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#poetrycommunity #themarrowpoetry #poetryaboutdolls
June 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Issue 4 of The Marrow Poetry is out, lighting up a chilly Sunday evening! Honoured to have ‘Bambola’ included in sparkling company - gratitude to editors Audrey Molloy, Daragh Byrne and Natalie Bühler 🙏
www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-four-c...
#poetrycommunity #themarrowpoetry #poetryaboutdolls
www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-four-c...
#poetrycommunity #themarrowpoetry #poetryaboutdolls
Love it when sketching happens at book launches! Here's the editor John Eliot and others in Salerno at the launch of bilingual Correnti Incrociate 5 & on the right, Peter Boyle and myself at the launch of my collection Anamnesis, 2022, at The Sydney Poetry Lounge :)
#booklaunch #thesalernoproject
#booklaunch #thesalernoproject
June 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Love it when sketching happens at book launches! Here's the editor John Eliot and others in Salerno at the launch of bilingual Correnti Incrociate 5 & on the right, Peter Boyle and myself at the launch of my collection Anamnesis, 2022, at The Sydney Poetry Lounge :)
#booklaunch #thesalernoproject
#booklaunch #thesalernoproject
It was humbling and rigorous experience to be a judge for this year’s NSW Poetry Prize. Congratulations to Jane Downing, first place winner, and all other placed poets whose work you can read here:
nswpoetryprize.au/results/2025...
#poetrycompetition #poetrycommunity #nswpoetryprize
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#poetrycompetition #poetrycommunity #nswpoetryprize
June 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
It was humbling and rigorous experience to be a judge for this year’s NSW Poetry Prize. Congratulations to Jane Downing, first place winner, and all other placed poets whose work you can read here:
nswpoetryprize.au/results/2025...
#poetrycompetition #poetrycommunity #nswpoetryprize
nswpoetryprize.au/results/2025...
#poetrycompetition #poetrycommunity #nswpoetryprize
Delighted to receive 'Temple', the South Coast Writers Centre anthology, containing my shortlisted poem (2024 SCWC competition)! Gratitude to editor Sarah Nicholson, and judge Judith Beveridge :)
#poetrycommunity #poetrypublishing #southcoastwriterscentre
#poetrycommunity #poetrypublishing #southcoastwriterscentre
May 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Delighted to receive 'Temple', the South Coast Writers Centre anthology, containing my shortlisted poem (2024 SCWC competition)! Gratitude to editor Sarah Nicholson, and judge Judith Beveridge :)
#poetrycommunity #poetrypublishing #southcoastwriterscentre
#poetrycommunity #poetrypublishing #southcoastwriterscentre
Honoured to attend the recent Aletheia event at the Australian Catholic University to hear Liam Semler’s lecture on the remarkable history of Shakespeare’s Second Folio and to give a poetry reading 🙏
#australiancatholicuniversity #poetryreading #aletheiaspeakerseries
#australiancatholicuniversity #poetryreading #aletheiaspeakerseries
May 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Honoured to attend the recent Aletheia event at the Australian Catholic University to hear Liam Semler’s lecture on the remarkable history of Shakespeare’s Second Folio and to give a poetry reading 🙏
#australiancatholicuniversity #poetryreading #aletheiaspeakerseries
#australiancatholicuniversity #poetryreading #aletheiaspeakerseries
A poem for Mother's Day ❤️
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May 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
A poem for Mother's Day ❤️
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Launching in Salerno, Italy, Correnti Incrociate 5/Cross-Currents 5, bilingual poetry anthology. Thanks to Linda Barone, John Eliot and the students who faced the daunting task of translating my pantoum and sonnet! 🙏
www.amazon.co.uk/Correnti-Inc...
#bilingualpoetry #thesalernoproject #mosaiquepress
www.amazon.co.uk/Correnti-Inc...
#bilingualpoetry #thesalernoproject #mosaiquepress
May 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Launching in Salerno, Italy, Correnti Incrociate 5/Cross-Currents 5, bilingual poetry anthology. Thanks to Linda Barone, John Eliot and the students who faced the daunting task of translating my pantoum and sonnet! 🙏
www.amazon.co.uk/Correnti-Inc...
#bilingualpoetry #thesalernoproject #mosaiquepress
www.amazon.co.uk/Correnti-Inc...
#bilingualpoetry #thesalernoproject #mosaiquepress
Looking forward to the launch of the Heroines Anthology (Vol. 5), 10 April, 6.00 pm, at Woollahra Gallery Sydney, hosted by Poetica! Honoured to have my 'Hemline of lost memories' among them 🤩
Details: www.writingtheheroine.com/events
#poetrycommunity #poetryreadings #booklaunch #womeninhistory
Details: www.writingtheheroine.com/events
#poetrycommunity #poetryreadings #booklaunch #womeninhistory
March 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Looking forward to the launch of the Heroines Anthology (Vol. 5), 10 April, 6.00 pm, at Woollahra Gallery Sydney, hosted by Poetica! Honoured to have my 'Hemline of lost memories' among them 🤩
Details: www.writingtheheroine.com/events
#poetrycommunity #poetryreadings #booklaunch #womeninhistory
Details: www.writingtheheroine.com/events
#poetrycommunity #poetryreadings #booklaunch #womeninhistory
Writer in Residence opportunity! The studio at Don Bank Museum offers a peaceful writing space, courtesy of @NthSydCouncil - I'm loving every minute :)
Applications close 31 March: www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/arts-2/don-b...
#writerinresidence #DonBankMuseum #northsydneycouncil
Applications close 31 March: www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/arts-2/don-b...
#writerinresidence #DonBankMuseum #northsydneycouncil
February 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Writer in Residence opportunity! The studio at Don Bank Museum offers a peaceful writing space, courtesy of @NthSydCouncil - I'm loving every minute :)
Applications close 31 March: www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/arts-2/don-b...
#writerinresidence #DonBankMuseum #northsydneycouncil
Applications close 31 March: www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/arts-2/don-b...
#writerinresidence #DonBankMuseum #northsydneycouncil