Magdalena Ball

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

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

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  

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/