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Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury by Robert Adamson
Category: Poetry & Plays
The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River' In the old days I used to think art That was purely imagined could fly higher Than anything real. Now I feel a small fluttering Bird in my own pulse, a connection to the sky. -from 'The Kingfisher's Soul' In the last year of his ...Show more
Black Water: Approaching Zukovsky by Robert Adamson
Category: Fiction
A new collection by the well-known poet Robert Adamson and his best book to date. Adamson has won many major literary awards. In these poems, he writes of his beloved Hawkesbury River and his project is the transmutation into song of that river, its people and the manifold ways of being it offers.
Golden Bird - New Selected Poems by Robert Adamson
Category: Poetry
The Golden Bird brings together the best of Robert Adamson's work from the last four decades, as well as many superb new poems. Selected and arranged by the author, it provides an accessible introduction to Australia's foremost lyric poet and an insight into the recurring themes that have shaped his rem ...Show more
Inside Out : An autobiography by Robert Adamson
Category: Biography
Robert Adamson, one of Australia's greatest poets, tells his extraordinary story. After an enthralled childhood on the Hawkesbury River, he drifted into petty crime and theft, into boys' homes and prison, into impossible love. It is an inspirational story of personal redemption through the power of word ...Show more
Mulberry Leaves by Robert Adamson
Category: Poetry
Mulberry Leaves brings together a selection of Robert Adamson's poetry from 1970 to 2001. The book is a valuable guide to Adamson's work over the past three decades, and includes an index of titles and an index of first lines. Adamson's recent poems, written between 1999 and 2001, include 'On not seeing ...Show more
Net Needle by Robert Adamson
Category: Poetry
Poetry. In The Times Literary Supplement, David Wheatley calls Robert Adamson "one of the finest Australian poets at work today." NET NEEDLE brings together the presiding influences of his life, early and late. He casts an affectionate eye on the Hawkesbury fishermen who "stitched their lives into my da ...Show more
Poems (1913) by Robert Adamson
Category: Poetry | Series: Imprint poetry
Brennan's collection of symbolist poetry is published here with a new introduction by Robert Adamason, together with letters between Brennan and the French symbolist Mallarme.
Reaching Light: Selected Poems by Robert Adamson
Category: Poetry | Series: Flood Editions Ser.
Poetry. Edited and introduced by Devin Johnston, REACHING LIGHT selects from five decades of work by one of Australia's finest poets. Readers of Robert Adamson's books will have understood that this distinguished man of letters and major poet is one of the most significant gifts that Australia can offer ...Show more
Shapes from Outta Nowhere: Towards Abstraction in Clay 1890-2018 - The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection by Adrienne Spinozzi; Glenn Adamson (Text by); Robert A. Ellison (Text by)
Category: Art
A comprehensive overview of 20th-century non-representational ceramics from the earliest years of the modernist revolution to the postwar period through to the present, Shapes From Outta Nowhere features an unparalleled gathering of over 150 works from New York City-based collector Robert Ellison. It ex ...Show more
The Best Australian Poems 2009 by Robert Adamson (Editor)
Category: Poetry
'When Australian poetry soars to new heights, it's usually because poets open up to the whole place . . . they take risks and write from the core of our culture.' - ROBERT ADAMSON By turns playful and topical, intimate and engaged, this vibrant collection gathers voices from all across the country - fro ...Show more