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Net Needle
Robert Adamson
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Description for Net Needle
Paperback. Robert Adamson has been nourished for much of his life by Australia's Hawkesbury River. His poems relate to nature, myth and his fishing background. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 124.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780373010
SKU
V9781780373010
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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 ... Read more
Reviews for Net Needle
'One of the finest Australian poets at work today.' - David Wheatley, Times Literary Supplement; ' Net Makers , at the end of Part One [of Net Needle], is effectively the collection's title-poem... This is Adamson at his most characteristic and memorable: the gritty realism with a lyrical edge; the hands-on knowledge of a physical craft; the opening-out ... Read more