{"id":665,"date":"2020-03-24T22:25:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2020-03-24T22:25:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:25:32","slug":"new-poems-at-plumwood-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"New poems at Plumwood Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/plumwoodmountain.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/cropped-plm-muscle-12.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"78\" \/>I love Plumwood Mountain and am so pleased to have 2 poems included in their stellar \u201cPlant Poetics\u201d issue. About the issue John Paul Ryan writes (in his editorial): &#8220;I am intrigued by the range of techniques and strategies adopted by contributors. Several poems invert the human-plant hierarchy with which Western societies have become so comfortable by narrating from a vegetal perspective. Such a deceptively simple move in fact constitutes a powerful means for reimagining relations between plants and people in an era of ecological collapse.\u201d \u00a0Of one of my poems, \u201cSignals in the Wild\u201d, Ryan says: An unresolved longing for a common language characterises Magdalena Ball\u2019s \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/plumwoodmountain.com\/signals-in-the-wild\/\">Signals in the Wild<\/a>\u2019. However, it is inevitably the human tongue that is deficient in \u2018the ability to detect \/ volatile compounds in the air\u2019. Ball\u2019s poem provokes us to rethink polylingualism in terms of the languages of plants expressed organically through electrical signals, volatiles, \u2018heavy metals \/ pathogens, gravity, heat\u2019. These poems and others indeed coincide with emerging scientific conceptions and therefore encourage a rapprochement between ways of knowing plants. Check out the issue here: <a href=\"https:\/\/plumwoodmountain.com\/plumwood-mountain-volume-7-number-1\/\">https:\/\/plumwoodmountain.com\/plumwood-mountain-volume-7-number-1\/ <\/a>My other poem, titled \u201cnot all invasions&#8221; can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/plumwoodmountain.com\/not-all-invasions\/\">https:\/\/plumwoodmountain.com\/not-all-invasions\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Plumwood Mountain and am so pleased to have 2 poems included in their stellar \u201cPlant Poetics\u201d issue. About the issue John Paul Ryan writes (in his editorial): &#8220;I am intrigued by the range of techniques and strategies adopted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=665\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","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=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}