NET NEEDLE

Adamson, Robert

ISBN 10: 0990340716 / ISBN 13: 9780990340713

Published by Flood Editions, 2015

About this Item

Flood Editions, c2015. 95pp. 8vo. Uncreased spine, as new unread trade paperback.

Seller Inventory # 95436

Bibliographic Details

• Title: NET NEEDLE
• Publisher: Flood Editions
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0990340716
• ISBN 13: 9780990340713
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Condition: As new
• Seller catalogs:
  • POETRY

About this title

Synopsis

Robert Adamson's 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 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.

About the Author

Robert Adamson (1943–2022) was one of Australia's greatest poets, with a career spanning five decades and countless literary awards. He was a key player in the growth of the "New Australian Poetry" and an editor of New Poetry from 1968–1982. With his wife, the photographer Juno Gemes, he published Paper Bark Press, one of Australia's most important publishers of poetry, from 1986–2003. Over his lifetime, Adamson published twenty-one volumes of his poetry in Australia, the United States, and Great Britain, and his poems have been translated into several languages. He also published a celebrated autobiography, Inside Out, in 2004. In the last year of his life, Adamson assembled Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury, a collection of his nature writings.