The Poet Cornered: Spotlighting David Adès

"... beguiling, sombre and insistent." MICHELLE CAHILL

David Adès will be known to many, especially those living in Sydney, as the producer and host of the podcast Poets’ Corner.  His poems and short stories have been published all over the world. We are delighted to announced that his latest book, “A Blink of Time’s Eye,” will be launched at Benledi House, Glebe, on 14 December, by Michael Campbell, Executive Director of WestWords. Your emcee for the event will be 5 Islands Managing Editor, Mark Tredinnick.

This is a very special book. The harvest of a lifetime of reflection and many decades of practising the craft of poetry, "A Blink of Time’s Eye” is a document of profound and sustained inquiry. “I have appointed myself detective to my own life," David Adès writes in "Today's Weather.” Nothing escapes the gaze of this persistent and perceptive investigator. His 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.  Damen O'Brien has written of this book:

"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 would love you to join us for drinks and nibbles, and to hear David read a selection of poems from this splendid new collection.

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