{"id":1267,"date":"2025-09-01T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2025-10-03T00:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:30:16","slug":"sydney-launch-of-gold-digger-by-lisa-collyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Launch of Gold Digger by Lisa Collyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gazebobooks.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gold_digger_front_cover-600x894.jpg\" width=\"157\" height=\"234\" \/>On Saturday, the 27th of September, I&#8217;ll be MCing the Sydney launch of Lisa Collyer&#8217;s much awaited new poetry book <em>Gold Digger,\u00a0<\/em>which will feature a launch speech by Willo Drummond and readings by the author, me, Willo and Elizabeth Walton.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/gazebobooks.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Gazebo-Author-Lisa-Collyer-scaled.jpg\" width=\"237\" height=\"158\" \/><em>Gold Digger <\/em>challenges the enduring myths of domesticity by portraying women as breadwinners, unearthing the realities of labour, aspiration, and social mobility. Collyer deftly reveals how women&#8217;s work &#8211; often overlooked or undervalued &#8211; has always been present, from the kitchen to the corridors of power.<\/p>\n<p>The event happens from 6:00 pm \u2013 7:30 pm<br \/>\nBetter Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown<\/p>\n<p>For all the details and to book visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betterreadevents.com\/events\/gold-digger-lisa-collyer-with-willo-drummond-and-magdalena-ball\">https:\/\/www.betterreadevents.com\/events\/gold-digger-lisa-collyer-with-willo-drummond-and-magdalena-ball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the 27th of September, I&#8217;ll be MCing the Sydney launch of Lisa Collyer&#8217;s much awaited new poetry book Gold Digger,\u00a0which will feature a launch speech by Willo Drummond and readings by the author, me, Willo and Elizabeth Walton. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1267\">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":[24,12,64],"tags":[31,14],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news","category-poetry","tag-book-launch","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","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=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}