Saturday, September 7, 2024

 Such a pleasure reading my poetry to the Sisters of St. John of God who once worked in the hospital in various roles as nurses. After weeks of delay due to Covid, the coast was clear on 4th September to read a selection of my nature poetry. We shared pictures of the little creatures that I photograph on my walk. The little Quenda was a hit with the ladies which I revealed...

Sunday, September 1, 2024

I was totally gobsmacked when I came across Lisa Hill's review of my debut novel, The Last Asbestos Town. It's amazing what you find! Although my novel (1st Edition) was published in 2020, I have only recently found Lisa Hill’s review on her website ANZ LitLovers. Written on 18th February, 2024, it is a fortuitous find for any author. At the time she also...

Friday, May 17, 2024

 Pleased to announce my new collection Bounty: Prose Poetry will be launched at the Moon Cafe, Northbridge in Perth on Saturday 25th May at 2pm.Bounty: Prose Poetry is a two decade long exploration of the form that has allowed me to explore a multi-layer of styles and preoccupations within the genre. A small selection of the prose poems has been previously published in...

Monday, April 1, 2024

Love Poem:  the Ancient Greeks  i A continent full of snakes and spiders greeted Paris on his march into Troy. He thought of Helen while inside the Trojan horse, marking his love for her on wooden beams with his sword. When he dreamed of her, the seas whooshed him back and forth to a bedchamber of camel hair and wind-chimes. ii When Psyche brought home Cupid his...

Sunday, February 11, 2024

   Market    A market shows a difference of colour and the possibility of taste especially when an assortment of nylon and lace are mounted. It could be that sizes are too small too young and not tolerable for the older wearer if the decoration is suggestive, but a younger buyer might determine the daintiness of the objects swinging, and there is a spectacle...

Saturday, January 6, 2024

The Ozone Café is about three separate owners of the café and its demise through political corruption. Hagemann delivers a vision of 1960s and ’70s life in a small NSW Central Coast town. The novel is a homage to a café of the same name and of a distinctive P&O design in her hometown of Ettalong, New South Wales. It is also about the struggle of past and present cafe...

Friday, September 15, 2023

 BOUNTY is set for release as an ebook & print book around mid-October (after the school holidays) I intend to launch the collection at the Moon Cafe, Perth WA.  However, it may be the end of the year or early 2024. The print book will be available at all good online bookstores. Stay tuned for a SUPER DEAL on Amazon! Here's a sample poem.COPYRIGHT (c)...

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

                I am now in control of publishing future work, ie. poetry, how-to books and novels through an imprint titled Oz.one Publishing. When I completed my Masters in Writing in 2006, technology as far as self-publishing goes was not as far advanced as it is today. We have online publishing companies...

Sunday, May 7, 2023

In this modern day, a writer not only writes novels, non-fiction or poetry, but to be relevant, one needs to adverttise and promote the level of the work.  Amongst about three million authors, you cannot just sit back and hope that readers will flock to you. If you're an unknown the idea is to step up, think outside the box, try fellowships, residencies, book awards,...

Saturday, April 15, 2023

 A GRIPPING STORY OF ENDURANCEThis heart-warming and intriguing novel will have you cheering for Ms Bennett as she navigates away from an unhappy marriage towards a new love!The Five Lives of Ms Bennett is a historical, coming-of-age, family saga. It’s about the struggle of a young Australian girl, fed up with her hometown life, only to find that the big city doesn’t...

Friday, February 17, 2023

The Five Lives of Ms Bennett is a novel that I wrote for my Masters in Writing, way back in 2006. Under a different title the manuscript has remained as they say "in the bottom drawer". In 2022, I spent time in a Fellowship at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre (Greenmount WA) changing all the mixed tenses to all 'present' tense.  I have submitted the novel...

Bounty

Bounty
Prose Poetry

The Five Lives of Ms Bennett

The Five Lives of Ms Bennett
A Family Saga

The Ozone Cafe

The Ozone Cafe
White Collar Crime

The Last Asbestos Town

The Last Asbestos Town
Available from Amazon

Evangelyne

Evangelyne
Published by Australian Poetry Centre, Melbourne

of Arc & Shadow

of Arc & Shadow
Published by Sunline Press, WA

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Helen Hagemann holds an MA in Writing from Edith Cowan University, has three poetry books: Evangelyne & Other Poems published by Australian Poetry, Melbourne (2009) and of Arc & Shadow published by Sunline Press, Perth (2013). Bounty: prose poetry is published by Oz.one Publishing in 2024. She has three novels published The Last Asbestos Town (2020), The Ozone Café (2021) and The Five Lives of Ms Bennett a result of her Masters degree at ECU (2006), is published by Oz.one Publishing (2023).

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