{"id":1332,"date":"2025-10-03T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2025-10-08T05:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:03:07","slug":"book-launch-for-australian-poetry-collaboration-issue-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch for Australian Poetry Collaboration issue 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?attachment_id=1333\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1333\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1333 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m delighted to have a poem titled &#8220;Kosmo Vinyl&#8221; featured in The Australian Poetry&#8217;s 39th Collaboration, &#8220;The Fulcrum Years&#8221; a unique new online anthology which explores the most pivotal years of Boomers &amp; Gen Xer&#8217;s lives. I note that Kosmo was a producer for The Clash and I began the poem as a reminiscence (which I more or less condensed out) of my 8 hour queue for Clash tickets to see them at the Bonds <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?attachment_id=1340\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1340\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1340\" src=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/502276615_18475647955068639_6828757671288925213_n-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/502276615_18475647955068639_6828757671288925213_n-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/502276615_18475647955068639_6828757671288925213_n.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> International Casino in NYC in 1981. \u00a0The person who came with me from Long Island into the city disappeared while we were queuing and I never saw him again (!)&#8211;instead I took someone else as I did manage to get two tickets &#8211; just.<\/p>\n<p>The issue, which will be available online from <a href=\"https:\/\/meusepress.tripod.com\/Meuse.htm\">Meuse Press<\/a> is going to be launched at the Since I Left You cafe, 338 Kent St, Sydney, 7pm Tuesday the 7th of October, and MCed by Editors Jonathan Cant &amp; Les Wicks. \u00a0The full issue is now available online here: <a href=\"https:\/\/meusepress.tripod.com\/apc.htm#GENX\">https:\/\/meusepress.tripod.com\/apc.htm#GENX<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to have a poem titled &#8220;Kosmo Vinyl&#8221; featured in The Australian Poetry&#8217;s 39th Collaboration, &#8220;The Fulcrum Years&#8221; a unique new online anthology which explores the most pivotal years of Boomers &amp; Gen Xer&#8217;s lives. I note that Kosmo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1332\">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":[49,12,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","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=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}