The 2020 Spirit of Self Expression poetry reading took place on 27 September at Manly Art Gallery & Museum. The event featured 22 works by a broad and exciting range …
Spirit of Home
On Sunday 10 November, twenty poets gathered at Manly Art Gallery & Museum for the 5th annual Poetry Alive reading to share their original poems responding to the Home Affairs …
And Now, Tenderness (David Adès)
And now, tenderness, should it come, should it ever come again, unsolicited, from an unexpected quarter, should it be felt and recognised, will break over me like a wave, dissolving …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 9: David Adès
DAVID ADÈS: In this edition of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, Podcast Producer Alice Allan chats with David Adès about US poet W. S. Merwin along with David’s time spent …
Made For You (David Adès)
‘You’re not good enough for any woman,’ Miranda screamed. ‘What you need isn’t a woman: it’s a blow-up doll.’ Even Chester acknowledged it wasn’t his finest moment. Whatever heat there …
Exodus (David Adès)
You hold a catacomb of memories. I wait outside your door to catch fragments. How much can any of us know of what preceded? We interrogate doors we cannot pass …
The Bridge I Must Walk Across (David Adès)
The Bridge I Must Walk Across Is this what it means to be lost? Stuck inside my skin — unable to shed it, unable to grow another — I am …
Cheep Cheep (David Adès)
Maybe all the pin-downable things have been pinned, framed on walls like a collector’s set of old butterflies, and we can all regress now in a stew of ancient enmities, …
Extracts From a Liar’s Notebook (David Adès)
If you tell the lie, tell it slant but with a direct gaze, with utter conviction, tell it as if you believe it is truth, again and again – and …
The Burden of Wings (David Adès)
At first, everything was blurred, beyond comprehension. Testing, I hovered above, taking in a new perspective, strange, troubling. I watched myself retreat, backed into a corner, on my knees, in …
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