Robert Adamson has been nourished for much of his life by Australia's Hawkesbury River. His poetry praises nature - red in tooth and claw - and celebrates existence as a mythological quest. Net Needle is his first new collection to be published in Britain since Reading the River: Selected Poems (2004) and The Kingfisher's Soul (2009). Net Needle brings together the presiding influences of Adamson's life, early and late. He casts an affectionate eye on the Hawkesbury fishermen who 'stitched their lives into my days', childhood escapades, lost literary comrades, the light and tides of the river, and the ambiance of his youth. Throughout, he is characteristically attuned to the natural world, sketching encounters both intimate and strange. These are poems of clear-eyed vision and mastery, borne of long experience, alert and at ease.
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Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
Publication Date: 26 May 2016
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781780373010
About Robert Adamson
Robert Adamson was born in Sydney in 1943 and grew up in Neutral Bay and on the Hawkesbury River New South Wales. During a tumultuous youth he found his way to poetry and in the five decades since he has produced 20 books of poetry and three books of prose. From 1970 to 1985 he was the driving force behind Australias New Poetry magazine and in 1987 with Juno Gemes he established Paper Bark Press for two decades one of Australias leading poetry publishers. He was the inaugural CAL chair of poetry at UTS (University of Technology Sydney) in 2011-14. He has won many major Australian poetry awards including the Christopher Brennan Prize for lifetime achievement the Patrick White Award The Age Book of the Year Award for The Goldfinches of Baghdad (Flood Editions 2006) and the Victorian Premiers Poetry Award for The Golden Bird (Black Inc 2009). He has published three books in Britain with Bloodaxe: Reading the River: Selected Poems (2004) The Kingfishers Soul (2009) and Net Needle (2016).
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