Magdalena Ball


Biography

Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. She is the author of the poetry book Repulsion Thrust, the novel Sleep Before Evening, a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything and three other poetry chapbooks Quark Soup, and, in collaboration with Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Cherished Pulse and She Wore Emerald Then. She also runs a radio show, The Compulsive Reader Talks.

Where to find Magdalena Ball online


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Books

Deeper Into the Pond:    by Magdalena Ball
Price: $3.99 USD. 4890 words. Published on July 20, 2011. Fiction.

Part of the award winning Celebration Series, Deeper into the Pond celebrates, supports, and inspires women. "Vivid images...will speak to you of times to look forward to or to remember. These are not poems to read once. They will stay with you forever."
Blooming Red: Christmas Poetry for the Rational    by Magdalena Ball
Price: $3.95 USD. 4550 words. Published on March 4, 2011. Fiction.

As part of our celebration series - a book of poetry focusing on the Christmas season.
Imagining the Future: Ruminations on Fathers and Other Masculine Apparitions    by Magdalena Ball
Price: $4.75 USD. 4000 words. Published on March 17, 2010. Fiction.

As part of the special celebration gift book series, Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball have produced a new poetry chapbook focusing on fathers, husbands, and men in general. This makes a wonderful gift for Father's Day or anytime you want to say something unique in a way that only poetry can to a special male in your life.
She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections On Motherhood    by Magdalena Ball
Price: $4.95 USD. 4870 words. Published on January 19, 2010. Fiction.

Moods of Motherhood: thirty poems by award-winning poets Magdalena Ball and Carolyn Howard-Johnson, with original photography by May Lattanzio. A beautifully presented, tender and strikingly original gift book, ideal for Mother's Day or any day when you want to celebrate the notion of motherhood in its broadest sense.
Cherished Pulse: Unconventional Love Poetry    by Magdalena Ball
Price: $3.95 USD. 2880 words. Published on January 3, 2010. Fiction.

Cherished Pulse, by Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball, contains twenty poems which look at love from a wise, mature, sensitive perspective. Never sentimental (forget Hallmark), the poems explore love in its many guises -- cherish, longing, sensuality, and that sacred place between desire and consumation.

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