'The Toolmaker and Other Poems' | poetry | ISBN 978 1 763825 932 | 36 pgs | Jun 2025 | $12 (within Australia)
'Although it was my profession for decades, I was always reluctant to tell people that I was a lawyer because I could often sense them pigeonholing me, as if my being a lawyer
both defined who I was and placed me in a straitjacket of that definition. The genesis of this chapbook was the idea that we are all more than what we do or who we first
appear to be. “The Toolmaker” was the first poem I wrote in this series. At that stage I had no intention of writing a series of poems exploring this theme, but they insisted on
being written! Every now and then another one turned up! Individual poems focus on a vocation or other personal attribute often used to compartmentalise or define people
in limiting ways. Collectively, the poems question this limiting approach to seeing people, attempting to invite readers to see people as more than what they do or
who they first appear to be. They try to argue for a less superficial approach to how we tend to view others.''
David Adès
David Adès is a widely published poet and short story writer with publications in Australia, the U.S., Israel, India, England, Romania and New Zealand. He is the author of Mapping the World, Afloat in Light, The Heart’s Lush Gardens and the chapbook Only the Questions Are Eternal.