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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Anamnesis
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'True to its title, the poems in O’Hagan’s second poetry collection, Anamnesis, allude to a world hovering at the edges of our minds, one that can be sensed and yet lies, teasingly, just beyond conscious reach. The arc of poems through time and distance represents a summoning up of, and immersion in, small moments which reveal themselves to be quietly momentous; a distillation of personal experience from which we feel there is something to be collectively gleaned. The recovery of memory in its various facets is explored, and the poetry that emerges is both poignant and lyrical.'

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    • Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,: Recent Work Press , 2022 .
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      • Published October 2022.
      ISBN: 9780645180886

Works about this Work

[Review] Anamnesis Alison Clifton , single work review
— Review of Anamnesis Denise O'Hagan , 2022 selected work poetry

'Fiction is fantasy – or, at least, popular fiction is preoccupied with the fantastical. Wish fulfilment. A life less ordinary. Some sort of magic to free us from the prison of the mundane. A shape-shifting wizard/cat with markings mimicking her spectacles. The announcement of a new and exciting identity for the first-person hero – I, me, myself – a being somehow cognate with the reader who experiences life vicariously through the authorial magic trick of vivifying a fictitious character. Hey, presto: “You’re a wizard, Harry!”' (Introduction)

[Review] Anamnesis Alison Clifton , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 15 2024;

— Review of Anamnesis Denise O'Hagan , 2022 selected work poetry

'Fiction is fantasy – or, at least, popular fiction is preoccupied with the fantastical. Wish fulfilment. A life less ordinary. Some sort of magic to free us from the prison of the mundane. A shape-shifting wizard/cat with markings mimicking her spectacles. The announcement of a new and exciting identity for the first-person hero – I, me, myself – a being somehow cognate with the reader who experiences life vicariously through the authorial magic trick of vivifying a fictitious character. Hey, presto: “You’re a wizard, Harry!”'  (Introduction)

Angela Costi Reviews Anita Patel, Denise O’Hagan and Penelope Layland Angela Costi , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 109 2023;

— Review of Petals Fall Anita Patel , 2022 selected work poetry ; Anamnesis Denise O'Hagan , 2022 selected work poetry ; Beloved Penelope Layland , 2022 selected work poetry

'Since 2015, Recent Work Press has published a consistently high standard of poets with years of accomplished adventure including Paul Hetherington, Peter Bakowski, Anne Casey, Damen O’Brien, Phillip Hall, Anne Elvey, Jennifer Compton, Rico Craig, Heather Taylor-Johnson, Cassandra Atherton, Jen Webb, Adrian Caesar, and so many others. Initially, it was Canberra-oriented but has extended its author base to include national and international poets. Also, it considers the work of newer poets such as the following with forthcoming debut collections: Ally Chua, Es Foong, and Thabani Tshuma. Shane Strange, the founder of the press, explains the impetus in an interview with Rosanna Licari of StylusLit (Issue 11) as:,,,' (Introduction)

Angela Costi Reviews Anita Patel, Denise O’Hagan and Penelope Layland Angela Costi , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 109 2023;

— Review of Petals Fall Anita Patel , 2022 selected work poetry ; Anamnesis Denise O'Hagan , 2022 selected work poetry ; Beloved Penelope Layland , 2022 selected work poetry

'Since 2015, Recent Work Press has published a consistently high standard of poets with years of accomplished adventure including Paul Hetherington, Peter Bakowski, Anne Casey, Damen O’Brien, Phillip Hall, Anne Elvey, Jennifer Compton, Rico Craig, Heather Taylor-Johnson, Cassandra Atherton, Jen Webb, Adrian Caesar, and so many others. Initially, it was Canberra-oriented but has extended its author base to include national and international poets. Also, it considers the work of newer poets such as the following with forthcoming debut collections: Ally Chua, Es Foong, and Thabani Tshuma. Shane Strange, the founder of the press, explains the impetus in an interview with Rosanna Licari of StylusLit (Issue 11) as:,,,' (Introduction)

[Review] Anamnesis Alison Clifton , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 15 2024;

— Review of Anamnesis Denise O'Hagan , 2022 selected work poetry

'Fiction is fantasy – or, at least, popular fiction is preoccupied with the fantastical. Wish fulfilment. A life less ordinary. Some sort of magic to free us from the prison of the mundane. A shape-shifting wizard/cat with markings mimicking her spectacles. The announcement of a new and exciting identity for the first-person hero – I, me, myself – a being somehow cognate with the reader who experiences life vicariously through the authorial magic trick of vivifying a fictitious character. Hey, presto: “You’re a wizard, Harry!”'  (Introduction)

[Review] Anamnesis Alison Clifton , single work review
— Review of Anamnesis Denise O'Hagan , 2022 selected work poetry

'Fiction is fantasy – or, at least, popular fiction is preoccupied with the fantastical. Wish fulfilment. A life less ordinary. Some sort of magic to free us from the prison of the mundane. A shape-shifting wizard/cat with markings mimicking her spectacles. The announcement of a new and exciting identity for the first-person hero – I, me, myself – a being somehow cognate with the reader who experiences life vicariously through the authorial magic trick of vivifying a fictitious character. Hey, presto: “You’re a wizard, Harry!”' (Introduction)

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