2024 ~ Helen Hagemann

Saturday, September 7, 2024

A Poetry Reading

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...

Review: The Last Asbestos Town

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...

Bounty: Prose Poetry - A Cafe Reading Launch

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...

Love Poem: the Ancient Greeks

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...

Market: A Prose Poem

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...

The Ozone Café : 2nd Edition OUT NOW!

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...