Afloat in Light by David Ades - ISBN: 9781742589466
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“David Ades’ luminous and honest collection, Afloat in Light Afloat in Light delicately balances that most crucial aspect of life-of how the ordinary is anything but. Ades is a poet that fully harnesses the verve of small miracles.” - Libby Hart

Afloat in Light

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  • Paperback

    100 pages

  • Release Date

    1 May 2017

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Summary

“David Ades’ luminous and honest collection, Afloat in Light, is chiefly a celebration of fatherhood and of paying attention, utilising Simone Weil’s notion that ‘attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity’. The collection extends to existence and loss, and a discourse on motive and meaning. Maps and moral compass are never far away in such explorations and like all good navigators Ades consults the moon and the stars to guide him through emotional terrain that crosses th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781742589466
ISBN-10:1742589464
Author:David Ades
Publisher:UWA Publishing
Imprint:UWAP
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:100
Release Date:1 May 2017
Weight:400g
Dimensions:8mm x 140mm x 210mm
Series:UWAP Poetry
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Afloat in Light by David Ades - ISBN: 9781742589466
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About The Author

David Ades

David Adès is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet who moved to Sydney in 2016 after living for five years in Pittsburgh. He has been a member of Adelaide’s Friendly Street Poets since 1979 and is the author of Mapping the World (commended for the Anne Elder Award 2008) and the chapbook Only the Questions Are Eternal. He is also co-author of three children, two daughters, Orli and Sarai, and a son, Eitan. He was a volunteer editor of the first Australian Poetry Members Anthology Metabolism. His poems have appeared widely in Australia and the U.S. in publications including over 20 of the Friendly Street Readers, and numerous literary magazines. Poems have also been anthologised in both Australia and the U.S. in anthologies such as Moonstone Poetry Series 2014 Anthology of Featured Poets, Australian Love Poems, The Stars Like Sand: Australian Speculative Poetry, and Australian Poetry Members’ Anthology Volumes 2, 3 and 4. In 2014 David was awarded the inaugural University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize and was also shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize. He has since been a finalist in the Dora and Alexander Raynes Poetry Competition and been Highly Commended in the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize.

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