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    Beauty in the Darkness
    Beauty in the Darkness
    Beauty in the Darkness
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    Beauty in the Darkness

    By Andrew Drake

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    Beauty in the Darkness explores the concepts of love, death, grief and the ironic twists and turns that life deals out. With depth and compassion, Andrew Drake speaks for the voiceless, the marginalised and for those whose lives have been tragically cut short. Honest, hard-hitting and poignant, Drake’s poetry shines a light into l

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateFeb 16, 2019
    ISBN9781760416928
    Beauty in the Darkness
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    Andrew Drake

    Andrew Drake is an established written and spoken word poet from South Australia. He was the 2017 South Australian Poetry Slam Champion and a four-time state finalist. Andrew has found success in countless competitions, including winning at the fringe festival three times and coming runner up in the Goolwa Poetry Cup and at the Singapore Poetry Slam. He was also the featured poet while in Singapore and features around Australia and has performed in the Sydney Opera House. Andrew often writes with the goal of finding beauty in the darkness and his poetry has been published in popular anthologies. In 2017, he cowrote a chapbook with Jill Wherry called Limerick Lovers which was published by Ginninderra Press. Within this collection are poems that were written throughout Andrew's life, signalling the conviction that he continues to live by, with poems he wants the world to hear. This is Andrew's Beauty in the Darkness.

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