Works by
Magdalena Ball
(Writer)

Fiction

• Sleep Before Evening (July 2007 release)
  Marianne is teetering at the edge of reason. A death in the family sends her brilliant academic career and promising future spiraling out of control until resentment towards those who shaped her past leads her on a wild and desperate search for the truth about herself. On the seedy side of New York, she meets Miles, a hip musician busking the streets and playing low-rent venues in a muddled bid to make his own dreams come true. In her new life, she finds anarchic squalor, home grown music and poetry, booze, drugs, sex, violence, love, loss . and, above all, exhilarating freedom on her troubled journey from sleep to awakening. This gritty, relentless story unfolds with the same cool detachment that motivates the central character to peel back the layers of her life and expose the painful scalding within.

Non-fiction

• The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything (2003)
  The Art of Assessment is a complete guide to the review process, from how to write good reviews, how to use interviews to add depth to your reviews, obtaining review copies, marketing your reviews, and plenty of examples and references to help you become a working reviewer.
  
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Poetry

• Cherished Pulse (2006) by Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball with original artwork by Vicki Thomas
  Cherished Pulse 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 consummation.
  
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• Quark Soup (2006)
  Quark Soup contains twenty eight poems which muse on topics like what it means to be human, love, loss, fear, longing, and transcendence. Avoiding cliché and the mundane, the poetry in this collection is accessible to the common reader, with a powerful intellectual edge and playful wit. As all good poetry should, this work uses sound, sense, and strong imagery to deal with everyday topics like depression, birth, growing old, love and death, all moving towards a large universal picture. As the title suggests, there is a strong astrophysical theme running through the poems. Most of the poetry in this collection has been published individually, in well known literary journals, as well as online in a number of respected international venues. The appeal of this work is broad, and aimed towards a wide market of both sophisticated poetry readers, and those who feel that poetry is too highbrow or inaccessible for their tastes.
  
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See also:

• “Loosen Your Belt”: Global Delights: A feast of stories and poetry and recipes (2003)

• The audience Review
  The audience Review features reviews of plays on Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off Broadway, and regional theater, as well as reviews of literature and poetry, and other informative critiques. The audience Review also contains author interviews and essays, and the occasional play or short story. The goal of the critics who write for The audience Review is to find broad themes in their subjects.
  
  Includes work by Ernest Dempsey, M. Stefan Strozier, and Magdalena Ball.

  • Vol. 1, no. 4 (Spring 2007)

  • Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 2007)