Denise O'Hagan

The AustLit record for Alexis Wright. In the right-hand top corner, an orange box is circled in red. The box reads Follow and includes a space for an email address.

AustLit's tip for the day: did you know you can follow AustLit records? You can even follow your own record! Then you'll know exactly when we add your latest works to the database. You'll only be alerted to substantial updates (i.e., if we add a new work, not if we adjust a comma in your biography).

Issue Seven of #TheMarrowPoetry is open for submissions! Please read our submission guidelines carefully and submit (the earlier the better) at: themarrowpoetry.com/submissions
We're keen to read your work! 🤩
#poetrycommunity #submissioncall #poetrysubmissions

Thrilled to share Issue Six of The Marrow Poetry journal, published today - 23 fabulous poems from around the world and an editorial by Judith Beveridge!
www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-six-co...
Please share as widely as you wish! 🤩
#poetrycommunity #PoetryJournal #poetrypublishing #TheMarrowPoetry

Dial-A-Poem is back, with the revolutionary poetry we all need right now Poet John Giorno's Dial-A-Poem is back, featuring revolutionary poetry to soothe our collective wounds and voice our collective outrage.

Poetry News →

boingboing.net/2026/02/01/d...

#PoetryNews #PoetrySky

To all the generous donors to The Marrow Poetry, thank you - we’re now able to pay contributors for our upcoming Issue Six! 🙏
#poetrycommunity #poetryjournal #donationsdrive #themarrowpoetry

Call for submissions - Issue 10 'Aquatic' Authora Australis now open, with Guest Editor Jena Woodhouse. Submissions due 31 December!

www.authora.net

No better time of year to contemplate the world’s incorrigible plurality, than Christmas. The haves & have nots, the spiritual & secular

Under this sits MacNeice’s agnosticism & his father’s profound faith

'more than glass between the snow & the huge roses'

#poetry
#poemoftheday
#christmas

Delighted that my poem 'One night in August’ was shortlisted in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2025! Gratitude to all at
@aestheticamagazine.com.web.brid.gy - and the #SouthCoastWritersCentre where it was shortlisted in the poetry award 2024 🙏
#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #poetry

Sometimes I read poems too quickly. This one deserves to be read slowly, to be read more than once, with attention paid to every word...

and 'we should be careful of each other, we should be kind while there is still time'

#poetry
#poemoftheday

The immediacy of the message: Mark Roberts reviews ‘Each Night I Count My Children: Poems From Gaza’ The recently published chapbook, Each Night I Count my Children: Poems from Gaza, is one example of how poetry has survived in the rubble of Gaza and, indeed, how it has become an essential part of…

Rochford Street Review Issue 43. The immediacy of the message: Mark Roberts reviews ‘Each Night I Count My Children: Poems From Gaza’ edited by Denise Howell.

rochfordstreetreview.com/2025/12/03/t...

'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', available at major online retailers! 🎁
#giftideas #HistoricalFiction

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

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

Thank you, Damen :)

#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

Vale Moya Costello Rochford Street Review was shocked and saddened to learn of the death  of writer, editor, academic and wine critic Moya Costello.

Rochford Street Review Issue 43. Vale Moya Costello.

Rochford Street Review was shocked and saddened to learn of the death of writer, editor, academic and wine critic Moya Costello.

rochfordstreetreview.com/2025/10/14/v...

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

Thank you, @arwashington.bsky.social!

I'm much indebted to María Del Castillo Sucerquia for translating three of my poems into #Spanish for the fabulous magazine Revista literaria Ajkö ki, Costa Rica! revistaajkoki.com/.../traducci... #poetrycommunity #translating #poetryintranslation

Nice, @kitklein.bsky.social!

There is something hauntingly beautiful in this juxtaposition of sadness and hope

'Although the wind'
- Izumi Shikibu

#poetry
#poemoftheday

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

Meanjin's 'financial' shutdown doesn't add up Melbourne University reported a $273 million surplus in 2024 on an operating income of $3.2 billion. It is against these figures that the 'purely financial decision' to close Meanjin has raised eyebro...

“Future generations will look upon the decision to shutter Meanjin with contempt…” @catrionamp.bsky.social on the Meanjin debacle www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...

'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

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

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

#2046 - nowhere man 2046 6.219 7.viii.25    nowhere man jetlag series   there are things you only see in the dark   you see sleep at the bot...

thedailykitkelen.blogspot.com/2025/08/2046...

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