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the world with awardwinning novelist, nonfiction writer, and poet, Californian Carolyn HowardJohnson, as she looks, not as a tourist, but a naturalist poet, peering closely, translating everything into matters of the heart.
In Teaching Elizabeth, she writes, "I breathe airy sequins into the Rocky light, " Half this book is authored by Magdalena Ball, an awardwinning Austrailian poet, novelist, reviewer who studied, Post grad, at Oxford and now lives in rural Southwest Wales.
She's the originator of the hightly respected compulsivereader, com Her poems are cautionary without getting preachy, In Alien Life, a poem about water, she moves into scifi as she admonishes us about wasting water,

Drink now
slowly
with the knowledge
that throughout the universe
aliens everywhere
your distant stardust relations
thirst.


AND, DID I MENTION THAT ALL MONEY FROM THE SALE OF THIS BOOK GOES TO THE WWF: THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND "Sublime Planet begins with Carolyn Howard Johnson's love poems to the living world, rapturous poems, expansive in spirit yet precise in detail: An impossible moth,/dark eye at its center, opaquehelicopter blades buzz and blur.
In Magdalena Ball's darker meditations, hurt and thirst have entered the world facilitated, in part, by the machinations of civilization, While HowardJohnson's poems praise, Ball's seem to sound a low warning, I recommend Sublime Planet particularly to those individuals who reside on the planet, " Suzanne Lummis, UCLA poetry instructor and LA's unique contribution to the poetry world

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

MAGDALENA BALL
Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader.
Her short stories, editorials, poetry, reviews, and articles have appeared in a wide number of printed anthologies and journals, and have won local and international awards for poetry and fiction.

Magdalena holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from CCNY New York, an MBA from Charles Sturt University NSW, Australia, and has studied literature on a postgraduate level at Oxford University UK.
She lives in on a rural property in New South Wales with her husband and three children, She is also the author of two critically acclaimed novels Sleep Before Evening and Black Cow, a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment, and two poetry books Repulsion Thrust and Quark Soup as well as coauthoring the Celebration Series of chapbooks.

Her website is magdalenaball, com
Visit The Compulsive Reader at compulsivereader, com/html

CAROLYN HOWARDJOHNSON

Carolyn HowardJohnsons first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards, Her book of creative nonfiction, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, won three, She has been an instructor for UCLA Extension worldrenown Writers Program for nearly a decade and her book The Frugal Book Promoter, now in its second edition, was named USA Book News Best Professional Book, and was given the Irwin Award.
Her second book in the How To Do It Frugally series, The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success is also a multi award winner.
Her chapbook of poetry Tracings, was named to the Compulsive Readers Ten Best Reads list and was given the Military

Writers Society of Americas Award of Excellence.
She is the recipient of the California Legislatures Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award, and her communitys Character and Ethics Committee awarded her work promoting tolerance with her writing.
She was also named to Pasadena Weeklys list of“San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen, ” She is on the respected Poets amp Writers roster of poets,

Her website is HowToDoItFrugally, com.
She blogs writers resources at Writers DigestsBest Websites pick sharingwithwriters, blogspot. com.

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Ann Howley came to photography through her love for travel, She photographs nature, landscape, and travel and has adventured on all seven continents in search of her images, She has trekked on the Inca Trail, to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, to Mount Everest base camp, and walkedmiles along the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain.
She has been up close and personal with penguins in Antarctica, polar bears in Canada, and mountain gorillas in Uganda, Ann received a Culture and Arts Honorable Mention from Smithsonian Magazine and has been featured twice in the Member Showcase of North American Nature Photography Association.
Her photography was included in Suenos/YumeFifty Years of the Art of Dora De Larios which won for Best In Show Book Design by the American Advertising Federation.
This awardwinning book helps the reader notice more details about our beautiful world and nature, Such writing takes time to ponder, One reading won't do. Although not a long book, I will be thinking about it for a long time, It will call me back to reread,
A Celebration of Earth

Our world is both magnificent and terrible, These poems celebrate both aspects, I delighted in the lush images of places I've loved seeing them through the eyes of someone who loved them, too: Santa Ana winds, poppies, the plains of Kansas.
There are also harsh poems like “Trash Tree” that show us the dark side of ourselves and the world,

My favorite is “The Man I Love and the Writing Spider” because it's so close to my own experience, I watch the spider build a web of silver threads delighting in the intricacy, but when it leaves the web and wants to come inside, it becomes the enemy.
I want to squash it, but I'm grateful when some braver person rescues it and gives it another chance at life or death,

The poems not only invite you to relive sensuous experiences, but they make you think about the world, how important it is, and how we need to care for it.
The book is a wonderful gift for Earth Day, A good time to meditate on the magnificence of the world, I have never read a poetry book before, but since I kinda "know" Magdalena Ball I was perfectly willing to give this a try, While I realized poetry will never be a big thing for me, I did enjoy most of it, though a lot certainly went over my head.


Carolyn HowardJohnson's poems should be read in the middle of a forest or meadow, or on the top of an Austrian mountain range.
You can perfectly read it at home, but then you'll imagine the walls slowly being overgrown by plants, the walls crumbling to ruins as nature conquers over civilization.
In any case, you need to read them in absence of engine noises, electronic music, the hum of industry, These poems applaud nature.

Magdalena Ball's half of the book is a bit different and with these poems I felt a sense of loss, of loneliness, of a search for some connection that isn't there and will possibly never come.
With most of them I had a harder time making sense of them, but with others I felt a deep, personal connection as if they had been gripped out of my life.
"Word Wall" is easily my favorite, Sublime Planet, a collection of poetry by Magdalena Ball and Carolyn HowardJohnson is both a celebration of the wonderful planet we live in and a reminder to all of us that we must never take it for granted! This is a very balanced collection erudite yet lyrical.
"
DNA you gave up
in ashes, nature's hardiest gift"

Favourite poems:
The Impervious Stones of Malta
The Giraffe
Endangered Species
Hedge
These Heavy Sands
Plane Strain


I thought the book is very well written and the poetry quite energetic some of the scientific expressions went past my head as I did not have the background for them.
Well worth the read Magdalena Ball runs Compulsive Reader sitelink Her stories, poetry, reviews and articles have appeared in many printed anthologies and journals, and have won several awards.
She is the author of Bobish, The Density of Compact Bone, Unmaking Atoms, Black Cow, Repulsion Thrust, The Art of Assessment, Quark Soup, Sleep Before Evening and many other collaborations.
Find out at sitelink Magdalena Ball runs Compulsive Reader sitelink Her stories, poetry, reviews and articles have appeared in many printed anthologies and journals, and have won several awards.
She is the author of Bobish, The Density of Compact Bone, Unmaking Atoms, Black Cow, Repulsion Thrust, The Art of Assessment, Quark Soup, Sleep Before Evening and many other collaborations.
Find out at sitelink sitelink,