{"id":1381,"date":"2026-02-11T02:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2026-02-11T02:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:05:26","slug":"australian-poetry-journal-14-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":"Australian Poetry Journal 14-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?attachment_id=1385\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1385\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1385 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/APJ-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/APJ-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/APJ-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/APJ-768x999.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/APJ-1181x1536.jpg 1181w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/APJ-1575x2048.jpg 1575w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/APJ-scaled.jpg 1969w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a> I&#8217;m delighted to have my poem &#8216;Gravitational Waves&#8221; published in the latest Australian Poetry Journal (Volume 2, Number 2) guest edited by Bonny Cassidy &amp; Alison J Barton. \u00a0These amazing editors have chosen such a powerful selection of work that I will be exploring this journal a long time. \u00a0In the Foreward, Alison and Bonny say: &#8220;At times subject matter entered the poems obliquely, at times directly, but always with urgency. It felt less like poets choosing their subjects and more like the times we inhabit pressing their imprint on the work.&#8221; I&#8217;ve only just begun reading through this hefty collection, but I&#8217;ve already found this to be true &#8211; these are striking poems which create, as the editors have put it, &#8220;an evolving conversation.&#8221; \u00a0This one is not yet for sale individually &#8211; subscribers get their copies first but when it is you can get copies here: <a href=\"https:\/\/australianpoetrypublications.org\/\">https:\/\/australianpoetrypublications.org\/<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Or subscribe to the journal here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australianpoetry.org\/subscribe\/become-an-ap-subscriber\/\">https:\/\/www.australianpoetry.org\/subscribe\/become-an-ap-subscriber\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to have my poem &#8216;Gravitational Waves&#8221; published in the latest Australian Poetry Journal (Volume 2, Number 2) guest edited by Bonny Cassidy &amp; Alison J Barton. \u00a0These amazing editors have chosen such a powerful selection of work that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1381\">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":[81,14,23],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-poetry","tag-journals","tag-poetry","tag-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","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=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}