Flying Island Book Launch & Benefit Show

Posted on February 8, 2022 by magdalenaball

This Saturday the 12 February at 2pm (AEDT) at The Shop Gallery in Glebe NSW, I’ll be assisting with a group launch of The 2021 Flying Islands Pocket Poetry Books. New authors include Morgan Bell, Anna Couani, Laurie Duggan, Daniel Ionita, Alan Jefferies, Brian Purcell, Jane Skelton and Sarah St Vincent Welch and the event will be simultaneously run in person and via Zoom.  RSVP/full details (including zoom link on the day) can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/253675503567825

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Poetry Corner on Casey Radio

Posted on February 4, 2022 by magdalenaball

This Sunday, 7th Feb, I’ll be a guest on Casey Radio’s inaugural “Poet’s Corner”, reading several poems from The Density of Compact Bone, and speaking with host Noonan Anne Michelle.  The show airs Sunday after the news at 5pm (AU EST) on 97.7 FM. You can listen live here: https://www.caseyradio.com.au

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This Gift, This Poem

Posted on December 19, 2021 by magdalenaball

So pleased to have a poem in this beautiful anthology This Gift, This Poem, published by Puncher & Wattmann and edited by Jean Kent, David Musgrave, Carolyn Rickett, and Jen Webb.

Copies are available here: https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/this-gift-this-poem/

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Common or Garden Poets: These Flying Islands

Posted on December 14, 2021 by magdalenaball

The Lovely Gillian Swain invited me to participate in the Common or Garden Poets initiative at These Flying Islands.  The initiative is a conversation in poetry around the garden, in its broadest sense, with the aim of creating a garden of words, voices, and visuals.  My poem is here: https://www.theseflyingislands.com/2021/12/common-or-garden-poets-8-magdalena-ball.html  

 

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5 poems in Live Encounters

Posted on November 25, 2021 by magdalenaball

Five of my poems have been published in the 12th Anniversary issue of Live Encounters.  These include “Kingfisher at Night”, “Tracks”, “Ultimate Grey”, “Hedy and Zebra” and “Crossroads”.  This is a bumper multi-part publication beautifully presented, with many wonderful poets, and I’m thrilled to be included.  To go directly to the journal click here

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Posted on November 11, 2021 by magdalenaball

Plumwood Mountain is a marvel – all of their issues are terrific and this latest, Embodied Belonging: Towards an Ecopoetic Lyric is no exception.  In addition to editor Sophie Findlay’s marvellous introduction, there are lots of gorgeous poems. I’m very happy to have a poem in this issue titled “Anatomy of a Lemon”.  You can check out the whole issue here

https://plumwoodmountain.com/plumwood-mountain-volume-8-number-1/?fbclid=IwAR0emQF7yIBCv8Or0YPglGlfkHSQ3ZGprOMzALBKwNhgX1frpPb08JZxlOE

 

Or go straight to my poem: https://plumwoodmountain.com/anatomy-of-a-lemon/

I recommend you read the whole issue. There are amazing poems here.

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Me and Ricky in Plus 61J Media

Posted on October 19, 2021 by magdalenaball


The wonderful Miriam Hechtmann has written a piece on my uncle and me for Plus61j.  In it Ricky and I talk about each other, our shared history, how we support one another, our Judaism, our creative work and more. You can read the piece here: https://plus61j.net.au/australia/maggie-and-i-are-like-jewish-fugitives-walking-in-the-same-direction/

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New book is now out!

Posted on October 17, 2021 by magdalenaball


My new poetry book Density of Compact Bone is now out from Ginninderra Press.  Of the book, the wonderful Ivy Ireland says:

“The poems of Magdalena Ball’s The Density of Compact Bone are utterly visceral, sometimes temporal, but never quite ephemeral – lines will ring out in waves inside the mind long after the final page has been turned. These poems are not only haunting, but haunted: by the sense of something undetermined gone missing and also by what is known to be lost. These are poems explored through the body; internal, intimate and yet filled with paradigmatic shifts: from personal grief to global keening, from the blurred landscape of raw human feeling to the clear data of exacting scientific analysis. Apocalypse is rife here, but this collection moves beyond a dissection of our end times. These poems are intelligent – at times almost mordantly so – meticulously crafted and ontologically restless, yet somehow Ball’s humour, unassuming warmth, and varied musings on the movement of birds, the colour of planets or the buzzing of bees, leaves the reader feeling as though they have been gifted a potent balm for the relentless wounding ubiquitous here in the Anthropocene.”

To purchase, visit Ginninderra Press: https://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/store.php?product/page/2354/Magdalena+Ball+%2F+The+Density+of+Compact+Bone

Or you can buy from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Density-Compact-Bone-Magdalena-Ball/dp/1761091867/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Or best of all, ask for it from your local bookshop.  They should be able to get it in for you (and save you postage!).  Ebooks or hardcopies are available from most online retailers.

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Not Very Quiet: The anthology

Posted on October 14, 2021 by magdalenaball

I’m pleased to have a poem, “Rhythmic Oscillations,” in the Not Very Quiet Anthology edited by Moya Pacey & Sandra Renew and published by Recent Work Press. The book will be launched on Thursday the 25th of November 7-830 AEST on Zoom by Anita Patel, [Guest Editor NVQ, Editorial Board Recent Work Press].  You can pre-order copies from the Recent Work Press website:  https://recentworkpress.com/product/not-very-quiet-the-anthology/

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Poetry for the Planet

Posted on September 30, 2021 by magdalenaball

This gorgeous new anthology, Poetry for the Planet, edited by the wonderful Julia Kaylock and Denise O’Hagen is now available.  The anthology contains eco-themed poems from poets around Australia and New Zealand, and I’m very pleased to have a poem of mine included. The anthology can be purchased from the publisher Litoria Press here: https://www.litoriapress.com/poetry-for-the-planet-anthology

All profits go to The Australian Conservation Foundation.

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