David Adés
David Adès is a poet, short story writer, and poetry podcaster. His most recent book is The Heart’s Lush Gardens.
BottomDavid Adès is a poet, short story writer, and poetry podcaster. His most recent book is The Heart’s Lush Gardens.
BottomDavid Adès is the author of Mapping the World, Afloat in Light and most recently The Heart’s Lush Gardens as well as the chapbooks Only the Questions Are Eternal and The Toolmaker and Other Poems. He won the Wirra Wirra Vineyards Short Story Prize 2005 and the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize 2014. Mapping the World was commended for the FAW Anne Elder Award 2008. David’s poems have been read on the Australian radio poetry program Poetica and have also featured on the U.S. radio poetry program Prosody. His poetry has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and twice been shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize. His poems have been Highly Commended in the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize, a finalist in the Dora and Alexander Raynes Poetry Prize (U.S.) and commended for the Reuben Rose International Poetry Prize (Israel). David is the host of the monthly poetry podcast series Poets’ Corner.
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