{"id":1235,"date":"2025-01-09T05:54:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T05:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2025-01-09T05:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T05:56:59","slug":"flying-island-2025-new-book-series-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"Flying Island 2025 new book series launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?attachment_id=1236\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1236\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1236 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-FI-launch-flyer-square-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-FI-launch-flyer-square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-FI-launch-flyer-square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-FI-launch-flyer-square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-FI-launch-flyer-square-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-FI-launch-flyer-square.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On Sunday the 26th of January, <a href=\"http:\/\/theshopgalleryglebe.blogspot.com\">The Shop Gallery<\/a> in Glebe will be hosting a combined book launch of the new 2025 Flying Island books. I&#8217;m the current Vice President of <a href=\"https:\/\/flyingislandspocketpoets.com.au\">Flying Islands<\/a> and am proud of this beautiful set of books that is being brought into the world which includes Lizz Murphy&#8217;s <em>Bitumen Psalms, <\/em>Brian Purcell&#8217;s <em>Filmworks,\u00a0<\/em>Huang Fan&#8217;s <em>Flower Ash\u00a0<\/em>(a multilingual book in both Chinese and translated into English by Josh Stenberg),\u00a0David Ad\u00e8s&#8217; <em>The Heart\u2019s Lush Gardens, <\/em>Tug Dumbly&#8217;s <em>Tadpoems: 400 Shorts,\u00a0<\/em>Bronwyn Rodden&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Stranded,\u00a0<\/em>and Nathanial O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Separation Blues: Poems 1994-2024.\u00a0<\/em>There is also the fabulous <em>100 Poets<\/em> anthology created to celebrate the milestone of publishing more than one hundred books in the Pocket Poets\u2019 series. I have the great honour of launching the anthology. The gallery will also be featuring an exhibition of Brian Purcell&#8217;s paintings &#8211; \u2018Floodlands\u2019. This is going to be a big and exciting event &#8211; it&#8217;s completely free and everyone is welcome. If you can&#8217;t make it, you can still check out the new books here: <a href=\"https:\/\/flyingislandspocketpoets.com.au\/\">https:\/\/flyingislandspocketpoets.com.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0On Sunday the 26th of January, The Shop Gallery in Glebe will be hosting a combined book launch of the new 2025 Flying Island books. I&#8217;m the current Vice President of Flying Islands and am proud of this beautiful set &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1235\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}