A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
Denise O’Hagan is a Sydney-based editor and poet with a background in commercial book publishing. Her poetry is widely published and awarded, including in the Dalkey Poetry Prize (first place), the International Proverse Poetry Prize (second place), the Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize, the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition and the Welsh Poetry Competition (high commendations).
Gazebo Books 2023.
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon writes poetry from and about the female body.
Her opening collection, First Blood was a gritty exploration of girlhood that challenged cultural expectations of ideal femininity. Her second collection If There is a Butterfly continues to centre female bodily experience, taking pregnancy, birth, and motherhood into her orbit.
And it was then that Gabrielle began to teach me how to read Finnegans Wake: in a group, reading aloud, going very slowly, line by line, everyone pitching in suggestions and ideas, without too much concern for what might be right or wrong, sense or nonsense, just taking pleasure in the beauty and the strangeness and the glorious and often hilarious inventiveness of the language.
Myron’s haiku are sparse, highly disciplined and written directly from his experience. Each can be read as a whole poem, but four of the five sections in this collection also loosely combine to tell stories. The fifth consists of occasional haiku and includes 33 haiku each dedicated to specific friends.
‘A decision by Create NSW to award funding exclusively to metropolitan writing organisations in the latest round of NSW arts grants …’ was a body-blow to Booranga and regional writing: ‘… While Booranga had its submission for $60,000 knocked back after 30 years of ongoing funding, four city-based writing centres received over $460,000 between them.’
Rochford Street Review 