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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 18h

‘Our editors often find ... that common threads connect the poems, sometimes in uncanny ways…’ (Editorial) #themarrowpoetry’s Issue Eight is published at the Marrow website! Feel free to share 💫 www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-eight-... #poetrycommunity #poetryjournal #internationalpoetry

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Issue Eight Contents — The Marrow International Poetry

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Excited and very grateful to have my poem included at the upcoming 31st Melbourne Poets Union award night, in esteemed company of poets 🙏 Sincere thanks to the judge, Jennifer Harrison, and congratulations to all! 🎉 #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #melbournepoetsunion

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“In a secular age, I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks,” Ceridwen Dovey writes, in “Can Reading Make You Happier?,” (2015). newyorkermag.visitlink.me/WvVKG2

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The gorgeous Outposts 3 has hit my letterbox, poetry-filled and clearly created with exceptional care! Enormous thanks to editor Clare Morris for giving three of my poems such a home, and congratulations to all!🌻 outpostspoetry.com #poetrycommunity #poetryjournal #outposts

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't is for anybody who's had to clear a house, who's found objects that must have had significance for someone no longer here to tell their story....

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Delighted to receive 2nd Prize in #IlMeletodiGuidoGozzano2026 Literary Award, Italy, for my poem ‘Street seasons’! Gratitude to the judges and Lidia Chiarelli, and congratulations to all 🙏 Thanks also to the #GalwayAdvertiser, original publishers of the poem 🤩 #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetiton

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

89 cheers for takahē!! 🎉 Of more than 4000 literary magazines worldwide, takahē is proud to have been awarded 89th place on the 2026 Fish List!

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thank you @emmalee1.bsky.social for this review of What the Mirror Tells (5 Islands Press, 2026)! #newrelease #bookreview #poetrycommunity

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wendell Berry :) newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vVxSyn

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thrilled to share news of the publication of my third poetry collection 'What the Mirror Tells'! Gratitude to my publisher @5islandspress and #NorthSydneyCouncil for my residency at the #DonBankMuseum where I completed it 🎉 www.5islandspress.com/product-page... #poetry #poetrycommunity #booknews

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Instead of the Sunday newspapers, I think I'll read Endgame by Beckett. Same difference. “Then one day, suddenly, it ends, it changes, I don’t understand, it dies, or it’s me, I don’t understand that either. I ask the words that remain sleeping, waking, morning, evening. They have nothing to say.”

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Damen O'Brien @damenobrien.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My thanks to Helen Ivory and the Ink, Sweat and Tears team for publishing my poem. Memory is an old road but we drive it when we can.

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Happy National Poetry Day, Aotearoa! Wishing you a day of words as sleek and captivating as Rebecca Hawkes' 'Trophy Fish', which features in the August issue of takahē. www.takahe.org.nz/rebecca-hawk...

Trophy Fish

Cold sores
again
glisten
unkissable.

My life
with you
is no longer
my life.

The fish swims on
against the rapids,
hook still blazing
in its lip.

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just landed and under guard – sneak peek at the advance copies of my third #poetry collection, 'What the Mirror Tells'! Enormous gratitude to my publisher, the wonderful #5IslandsPress 🙏 The book will be released shortly ✨ #poetrycommunity #newrelease #booknews

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

For the lovers. A poem Rilke wrote to Lou Andreas-Salomé. Translated by Franz Wright. Too often longing misses the point. Why should I cast myself out, when perhaps your influence is a simple thing to me, like moonlight at a spot by the window...

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Box of rejection slips, Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Indianapolis.

Worn red cardboard box reading "rejection slips."

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

'Odysseus is a great musician; he wishes to and must listen; he has himself tied to the mast. The motif of the artist, who will lay down his life rather than renounce his interest. I am almost afraid to treat such a theme; it's overwhelming.' James Joyce, The London Magazine

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

'Perhaps the moon is a frozen tear...' Anne Sexton :)

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Antique book with filigree silver binding, c. 1690s 🌿

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976)

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Just a week left to submit your very best poetry to #TheMarrowPoetry Issue Eight! Please read the submission guidelines carefully. We very much look forward to reading your work 🤩 themarrowpoetry.com/submissions #submissioncall #internationalpoetry #poetrycommunity

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' illustration, 1959 by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson #WomensArt

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The New Zealand Poetry Society competition results are in, chosen from over 600 international entries! Honoured to have my poem 'Chimera' highly commended, and congratulations to all ✨ You can read the judge's comments and winning poems at the NZPS website 🤩 #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #nzps

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Lebowitz on 'the most exhausting profession' :) 'Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you.'

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

'Poets on Poetry' is published - a deep dive into what practising poets think of the process of writing poetry. Gratitude to publisher & editor MarK Ulyseas for including my piece among the fascinating angles on this subject :) #poetrycommunity #processofpoetry #poetrywriting

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“The Day Lady Died” by Frank O’Hara — Billie Holiday, who died on July 17, 1959: "and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing"

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

‘O’Hagan is that rare beast, a Latinist who is perfectly at home with the story’s first century BC background.' - David Wishart, historical crime writer #HistoricalCrimeFiction A Roman Death available now! 🤩 Recommended by #USReviewofBooks & #PublishersWeekly 💫 blackquillpress.com/independent-...

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Jorge Luis Borges by Ferdinando Scianna Palermo, Sicily, 1984 "Somehow the central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry." - "The Poet's Creed" #WorldPoetryDay

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Always good for the Oz book trade to take stock now and then I feel. Today @kydmagazine.bsky.social brings a nice wide range of voices together to reflect on the industry’s health, or otherwise… www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/shou...

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Should We Be Publishing Fewer Books in Australia?

With growing calls to address the sustainability of local literature, we asked people across the book industry their thoughts on the pace of Australian publishing.

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Happy #smallpoemsunday Bring on the light for all of us, please 🖤🕯🖤 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

“The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here." Seamus Heaney, from Station Island (1984)

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The Librarian, although it could be any of my friends, really. Doing wild things with books, courtesy of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who died (alas!) OTD in 1593.

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Ngā mihi o te tau hau! ✨ Massive congratulations to the writers with stories selected for the takahē Matariki Short Short Story Celebration 2026, and thanks to everyone who sent their words our way! We’re looking forward to sharing the 9 selected stories in the August issue of takahē. ✨

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Grateful to The Atlantic for running this poem from my new collection, out in 10 days from Norton. I'm teaching a FREE class on July 25th at 1 PM as thank you for anyone who pre-orders the book. myfivethings.com/class/maya-c...

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This poem by Dan Albergotti feels like a manual, a self-help guide A metaphor for what it feels like to be trapped Rather than an escape plan it focuses on how the mind adapts to the situation by creating routine inside chaos, by trying to make sense of the extraordinary #poetry #poemoftheday

Poem - 'Things To Do In The Belly Of The Whale' by Dan Albergotti

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The #MarrowPoetry is open for submissions for Issue Eight! We can't wait to read your very best work 🤩 Find out more at: themarrowpoetry.com/submissions #poetrycommunity #submissioncall #poetryjournal

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Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We're pleased to present Abridged 0 - 110: Parallax. Read it for free at www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... The print edition will be available in Libraries throughout N. Ireland and at the usual places soon. We'll see you in Void Gallery in Derry on Saturday night from 6pm! Image by Marisol Mendez.

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Psychology of Composition The paper is mineral where the verse is written down the verse which is possible not to write They are mineral the flowers and plants the fruits, animals when in the state of words The horizon is mineral our names, these things made of words - João Cabral de Melo Neto

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Calling all poets! www.themarrowpoetry.com/submissions

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