Robert Adamson (poet)
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Robert Adamson (born 1944) is an Australian poet and publisher.
Adamson grew up in Neutral Bay and spent much of his teenage years in Gosford Boys Home. He discovered poetry while educating himself in gaol in his 20s. His first book, Canticles on the Skin, was published in 1970. He acknowledges the influence of, among others, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Robert Duncan and Hart Crane upon his writing.
In the 1970s and 1980s he edited New Poetry magazine and in 1988 with his partner Juno Gemes established Paper Bark Press. Adamson was awarded the 1990 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and in 1994 FAW Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in literature.
[edit] Works
Poetry
- Canticles on the Skin. (Sydney: Illumination Press, 1970)
- Cross The Border. (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1977) ISBN 0-86806-050-X
- Where I Come From. (Sydney: Big Smoke,1979) ISBN 0-908201-00-1
- The Clean Dark. (Sydney: Paper Bark, 1989) ISBN 0-9587801-2-9
- Waving to Hart Crane. (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1994) ISBN 0-207-18347-3 review
- Black Water: Approaching Zukofsky. (Sydney: Brandl & Schlesinger, 1999) ISBN 1-876040-14-9
- Mulberry Leaves: New & Selected Poems 1970-2001. (2001) ISBN 1-876749-48-2 reviewexcerpts
- Reading the River: Selected Poems. (Bloodaxe, 2004) ISBN 1-85224-606-5
- The Goldfinches of Baghdad. (USA: Flood Editions, 2006) ISBN 0-9746902-8-7 review
Autobiography
- Zimmer's Essay. With Bruce Hanford (Sydney: Wild & Woolley, 1974) ISBN 0-909331-02-2
- Wards of the State. (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1992) ISBN 0-207-17404-0
- Inside Out. (Text, 2004) ISBN 1-920885-60-9 review
[edit] External links
- Robert Adamson Dot Com Home page
- The Flow Through: for the Johns poem at Jacket Magazine
- Poems at Poetry International Web
- Interview with Robert Adamson
- Robert Adamson Contents page reviews at Australian Literature Resources
[edit] References
- Robert Adamson Thylazine Australian Artists and Writers Directory
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| NAME | Adamson, Robert |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Contemporary Australian poet and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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