Life observed by an eye that rarely blinks

There is much, much more to our latest release— A Blink of Time’s Eye, from David Adès —than its gorgeous cover. 

David Adès will be known to many, especially those living in Sydney, as the producer and host of the podcast Poets’ Corner.  David’s poems and short stories have been published all over the world. Of this collection, selected from work that David’s fastidious craftsmanship has produced over many years, Damen O’Brien has that “these are poems that should be read in moments of uncertainty and doubt because the poet has found his way out of those dark places with the torchlight of his poetry, and the reader will too.” 

We believe Damen nailed it. Nothing escapes the gaze of this persistent and perceptive investigator. "I have appointed myself detective to my own life," David Adès writes in "Today's Weather."  This strange and unusual sort of detective work is undertaken not with any expectation of finding clear answers, but with finding a way to live with the realisation that they will never be found.  The result is a book of bifurcations and multiplications; of roads taken and not taken; of living between the "here" and the "there"; of presences that look like absences, and absences that are oppressively present; and "of every prior certainty/burnt beyond recognition."

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A Blink of Time’s Eye will be formally launched at Benledi House in Glebe the afternoon of December 14. Keep an eye out on our website for news about this event. But you don’t have to wait until then to read this impressive book. You can get it now from our online bookshop (link in bio)—or ask for it at your local bookstore.

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