Robert Adamson (poet) explained

Robert Adamson
Birth Date:17 May 1943
Birth Place:Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death Place:Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:Poet
Language:English
Nationality:Australian
Citizenship:Australian
Spouse:Juno Gemes

Robert Adamson (17 May 1943 – 16 December 2022) was an Australian poet and publisher.[1] [2]

Biography

Born in Sydney, Adamson grew up in Neutral Bay and spent much of his teenage years in Gosford Boys Home for juvenile offenders. 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, and Hart Crane upon his writing. But also American poets such as Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley were important and influential contemporaries.[3]

In the 1970s and 1980s, he edited New Poetry magazine[4] and established Paper Bark Press in 1986 with his partner, photographer Juno Gemes, and writer Michael Wilding, which published Australian poetry. Wilding left the company in 1990, and Gemes and Adamson continued to run the company[5] until 2002.[6]

In 2011 he won the Patrick White Award[7] and the Blake Poetry Prize.[8]

Adamson was appointed the inaugural CAL chair of poetry at UTS (University of Technology, Sydney) in 2012.[9]

Death

Adamson died in palliative care (Neringah Hospital), Wahroonga, New South Wales[3] on 16 December 2022,[10] at the age of 79.[11] [12]

Works

Poetry

Autobiography

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Robert Adamson . Poetry of Robert Adamson > Woodland Pattern Book Center . Woodlandpattern.org . 4 April 2012 . dead . https://archive.today/20130416040332/http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/robert_adamson01.shtml . 16 April 2013.
  2. Web site: Poetry International Web - Robert Adamson . Australia.poetryinternationalweb.org . 4 April 2012.
  3. Web site: News And Publicity | Bloodaxe Books. www.bloodaxebooks.com.
  4. Web site: New Poetry . 2022-12-16 . AustLit: Discover Australian Stories . en.
  5. Web site: Paper Bark Press. 10 March 2004 . . 27 August 2022 .
  6. Web site: Lea . Bronwyn . Poetry publishing in Australia . Bronwyn Lea . 27 August 2022 . en . 14 May 2013.
  7. Web site: Former inmate wins $18,000 poetry prize . canberratimes.com.au . 7 November 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111107071348/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/former-inmate-wins-18000-poetry-prize/2347900.aspx . 7 November 2011 . dead . 27 August 2022.
  8. Web site: Blake Poetry Prize . AustLit. 27 August 2022.
  9. Web site: 2012-01-16 . Adamson named first CAL Chair in Australian Poetry at UTS . 2022-12-16 . Books+Publishing . en-AU.
  10. Web site: Robert Adamson Memorial Service Friday 13th January 2023, 1.15pm (AEDT) Live Streaming Details. 11 January 2023.
  11. Web site: Robert Adamson, the poet of the Hawkesbury River, dies at 79. Sydney Morning Herald. 16 December 2022. 16 December 2022.
  12. Web site: Burke . Tony . 16 December 2022 . Statement on death of Robert Adamson . 20 Dec 2022 . The Hon Tony Burke MP, Minister for the Arts.
  13. Web site: Giles Hugo . Anne Kellas . Bob Adamson Waving to Hart Crane . The-write-stuff.com.au . 9 January 2003 . 4 April 2012.
  14. Web site: Editors of CrossLines Kings Cross literary magazine. https://web.archive.org/web/20050116165153/http://www.projectroom.com/joystick/cross2000/issue2/Robertpoem.htm. dead. 16 January 2005.
  15. Web site: Peter Riley reviews Robert Adamson.
  16. Web site: 2009-04-27 . Robert Adamson . 2022-12-20 . Black Inc. . en.
  17. Web site: Robert Adamson . 2022-12-16 . AustLit: Discover Australian Stories . en.

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