Denise O'Hagan
@DeniseOHagan3
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Poet/editor • Monica Taylor Poetry Prize • NSW Poetry Prize • Dalkey Poetry Prize • Anamnesis (Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist & Rubery Book Award shortlist)
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined August 2018
I’m thrilled and rather stunned to have won the NSW Poetry Prize 2024! My poem is ‘300 Longwood Ave, Boston’, the theme ‘courage’. Congratulations to all placed and huge gratitude to the judges 🎉🙏 #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #EbsteinsAnomaly #bostonchildrenshospital
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Delighted that my poem 'One night in August’ was shortlisted in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2025! Gratitude to all at @AestheticaMag - and @SCWritersCentre where it was shortlisted in the poetry award 2024. https://t.co/OSdxUZTvIQ
#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition
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Good to be posting From Ships to Sheep, the Story of Smallhythe. On sale at Tenterden District Museum, @WstoneTenterden and online https://t.co/HunbOYolxy
@MyTenterden @SmallhytheNT #localhistory
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In the final hours of #GivingTuesday, all donations to @PETA will now QUADRUPLE in impact. Make your gift to help an animal in desperate circumstances:
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When the playwright Tom Stoppard died, “he left behind a theatre changed by his blistering intellect and blazing success, the heat and light that made the rest of our English-language garden grow,” Helen Shaw writes. https://t.co/TmEcnZwhW5
newyorker.com
The playwright offered a kind of on-ramp to the literary canon, a way into a life of unabashed, unstoppable thinking.
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Biddenden in Pictures book, with new pictures of @Tractorfest and the 2018 Poppy Project, is now on sale @TheBakehouseBid and @youbyyoubook1
https://t.co/Vay9wpeMDG
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“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment." Tom Stoppard, THE COAST OF UTOPIA RIP and thanks for such wonderful
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Last days to submit your #poetry to @themarrowpoetry! Closing midnight Sunday 🤩 #poetrycommunity #submissioncall #themarrowpoetry
Closing midnight Sunday! Dust them off and send them in!
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My thanks to @PaulWritesPoems for featuring Latch poems across November
A bonus poem has just been added to The Book Bag: Poetic Voices feature with the incredible @gosspoems One of my personal favourites from Latch… Link 🔗 https://t.co/1EK3CiBzMg
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Following another recent sell-out in Australia, my #poetry collection 'Seang (Hungering)' is BACK IN STOCK at @Gleebooks Gleebooks: https://t.co/6pxAPvj9ro And available worldwide through the publisher, Salmon Poetry: https://t.co/yZA2ZMjDHn
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'Faced with overwhelming evidence, including accusations of witchcraft and incest, Fufidius retains the services of Cicero, to save Helvia ...' So writes @tallandtrue of #HistoricalThriller 'A Roman Death', available now at major online retailers! 🎁#giftideas #HistoricalFiction
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Vale Robert Gray - Mark Mahemoff remembers Robert Gray (1945-2025). "His perfectionism, humanity and modesty have left an indelible mark on me. I will miss you, Robert." https://t.co/uQRLRebGec
rochfordstreetreview.com
Mark Mahemoff remembers Robert Gray (1945-2025).
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@themarrowpoetry @BarbaraBleiman @AttieLime @RobinRB17 @RooneyRachel @frazzledlitmag @dreambeastpoems @jamescarterpoet @Janenewberry55 @lozzawriting @BardyMum @DeniseOHagan3 @TweetsbyKayM10 It would be amazing if you could RT the main post ☝🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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Friends, I’m on this wonderful shortlist. If you like my poem, please vote at the link 🧡☺️🙏🏾
The Pick of the Month vote for the best IS&T post in October is now live. Will you choose Rushika Wick, @OormilaPrahlad, David A. Lee, Sarah James/Leavesley, Pratibha Castle or @TadhgCarey? More details at https://t.co/oZFvS4Xm7V
#InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth
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It was all going so swimmingly until the poetry workshop leader suggested alliterative verse was dead.
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Happy that my poem 'How to ferment your past’ is longlisted in this year’s @LiveCanon Single Poem Competition, in sparkling company! 🤩 https://t.co/0tPe6KSjCC Thanks to the judge Nina Murray, and congrats to all! #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetiton #livecanonpoemcompetition
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We are thrilled to discover not one but TWO poems from Issue Four of The Marrow featured in episode 6 of @RebeccaLeek_ 's poetry substack The Ditty Bag. Victoria Punch's 'I invite Circe to a dinner party' and Ronald Araña Atilano's 'Seeds' Well worth a listen to the whole ep!
Cracked boots and sunflowers seeds in soldiers' pockets. Listen to poem number four (and all of it!): https://t.co/cxx2MdgUL0
@themarrowpoetry 🌼 #poetrycommunity
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Delighted and grateful that my poem ‘The Icon Painter of Constantinople’ was highly commended in the @ACUmedia Poetry Prize 2025, theme 'Belonging'. Congrats to all and gratitude to the judges! 🙏 https://t.co/FOZbHMbtrx
#poetrycommunity #poetrycompetiton #acupoetryprize
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In Quando il Mondo Dorme (When the World is Asleep), I journey how the world’s moral collapse allowed the oppression of the Palestinian people to turn genocidal. Now in Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, French, Japanese, Greek, English, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish,Portuguese, and Spanish.
Francesca Albanese : « Une libération des préjugés » (Quand le monde dort) Dans @Collateralrevue aujourd’hui CC Achour à propos de ce texte magnifique de Francesca Albanese
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Poets, @themarrowpoetry is open for submissions! #poetrycommunity #poetrypublishing #themarrowinternationalpoetry
We are officially open for submissions for Issue 6 of The Marrow. We have a reading cap so best to get your submissions in early! We so look forward to reading your work. Submit up to three poems via the link in our bio after reading our submission guidelines. #subsopeN
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