Denise O’Hagan

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Denise O’Hagan is a Sydney-based editor and poet, born in Italy, with a background in academic book publishing. Former poetry editor with Irish literary journal, The Blue Nib, her work is widely published and awarded. Her poetry collection Anamnesis (Recent Work Press) was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Award (USA) and the Eyelands Book Award (Greece) and shortlisted in the Rubery Book Award (UK).

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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).

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Nature is not only celebrated in Castle’s poetry, but suffused with a sense of the sacred. Her use of the title word ‘triptych’ is telling: a triptych (from the Greek triptykhos meaning ‘three-layered’) is an artwork in three parts, usually religious. As a convent-educated daughter of Irish Catholic immigrants to England, she is well versed in church traditions, and her poetry is steeped in a sense of the liminal, of finding herself hovering on the thresholds of worlds—the secular and the spiritual, Ireland and England.

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The Density of Compact Bone is a visionary book by a poet who is also an accomplished novelist, reviewer and interviewer. Structured in four parts, it is a layered and deeply poignant collection, permeated by the twin themes of ecological precariousness and human connectedness.

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