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‘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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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

Calling all poets! www.themarrowpoetry.com/submissions

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From #TheMarrowInternationalPoetry, Issue Seven! Read all the work at www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-seven-... #newpoetry #poetrycommunity

From #TheMarrowInternationalPoetry Issue Seven! Read all the work at: www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-seven/... #poetry #poemoftheday #poetryjournal #newpoetry

It's published - Issue Seven of #TheMarrowPoetry! 💐 Read and enjoy 23 spectacular poems from around the world at themarrowpoetry.com 🤩 #newpoetry #poetryjournal #poetrycommunity

Kalliope X, Issue 8 is out! Thank you to the team for including my essay ‘Poetry and the Language of Seduction’ based on a talk delivered last year for the Society of Women Writers NSW at the State Library NSW 💐 Enjoy it at: kalliopex.com #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #KalliopeX

Grateful to have my #poem ‘How a woman (refuses to) iron her grief’ in Vol. 14 Iss. 1 of #Meniscus, the free access literary journal of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP). Gratitude to editors Jen Webb and Ginna Brock! 🌷 #poetrycommunity #poetrypublishing

The Autumn Issue of 'a fine line' is published! Thanks to Cadence Chung and the team for including my poem ‘The looking glass’ (shortlisted in the Strokestown Poetry Festival Prize 2024 under the title 'Mirror'). Congratulations to all contributors! 🤩 #poetrycommunity #nzpoetry #aotearoapoetry

Excited that Outposts 1 arrived with three of my poems, including two pictured here. Congratulations to all and gratitude to its editor Clare Morris for resurrecting the UK’s oldest independent poetry journal! 💐 #poetrycommunity #booklaunch #outposts

Only a week left to submit your work to Issue Seven of #TheMarrow! Please visit our subs page: themarrowpoetry.com/submissions #poetryjournal #poetrysubmissions #internationalpoetry

Live Encounters Poetry & Writing (April edn) is out! Excited to have three poems included - gratitude to the indefatigable Mark Ulyseas🙏 and congratulations to all! 💐https://liveencounters.net/2026/03/22/live-encounters-poetry-writing-april-2026/ #poetrycommunity #poetrypublishing #liveencounters

Honoured to have poetry in Issue 1 of ‘Outposts’, Britain’s longest-running independent poetry magazine, founded in 1944 by Howard Sergeant, now stylishly resurrected by editor extraordinaire, Clare Morris! It will be launched later this month...📜 🎉 #poetrycommunity #outposts

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

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

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

'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

#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

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

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

'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

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