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Reading the river : selected poems / Robert Adamson.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.3.A4 R42 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adamson, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tarset, Northumberland : Bloodaxe ; [Chester Springs, PA] : [U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions], 2004.
- Summary:
- Robert Adamson has been nourished for much of his life by Australia's Hawkesbury River. Reading the River praises nature - red in tooth and claw - and celebrates existence as a mythological quest. The early poems trace Adamson's own journey through a difficult childhood, prison and exile in the city, the source of a hard-won scepticism undercutting the highly personal Romanticism and daring lyricism of his later work.
- Contents:
- From Canticles on the Skin (1970)
- The rebel angel 17
- Demimondane 18
- Through a trammel of lives 19
- Toward abstraction/possibly a gull's wing 20
- From The Rumour (1971)
- Action would kill it/a gamble 22
- The unpopular scale of values 23
- Passing through experiences 24
- The domesticity 25
- A revelation 26
- Card tables covered with dice 27
- Getting further away 28
- From Swamp Riddles (1974)
- Things going out of my life 31
- Sibyl 32
- Goshawk over Broken Bay 33
- Sonnets to be written from prison 34
- The beautiful season 37
- Some more experiences 38
- Wind without flags 39
- Sail away 40
- The crossing 41
- The shining incidents 42
- 1 A new legend 42
- 2 Drifting through silence 43
- 3 The night parrots 44
- 4 The ghost crabs 45
- Berowra Waters 46
- From Cross the Border (1977)
- Lovesong from across the border 49
- Parrot poem 50
- Dead Horse Bay 51
- The river 52
- Apprehensions 53
- Sunlight, moonlight 54
- From Where I Come From (1979)
- My house 57
- My granny 58
- The harbour bridge 59
- My first proper girlfriend 60
- My tenth birthday 61
- My fishing boat 62
- Growing up alone 63
- My afternoon 68
- From The Law at Heart's Desire (1982)
- Rimbaud having a bath 70
- The home, the spare room 71
- Into forest 72
- In the night 73
- Glass Bay sonnets 74
- Landscape 76
- From The Clean Dark (1989)
- Remembering posts 78
- Green prawn map 79
- The channels 80
- Songs for Juno 81
- American sonnet 83
- The Jesus bird 84
- Fishing with my stepson 85
- Couplets 86
- Silva 87
- Clear water reckoning 88
- The details necessary 90
- Sonnets for Robert Duncan 92
- No river, no death 94
- Farming the oysters 97
- What's slaughtered's gone 98
- Wild colonial boys 100
- Canticle for the bicentennial dead 101
- From Wards of the State (1990)
- Social realist 104
- Sign this 105
- State ward sonnet 106
- Kenneth Slessor dancing 107
- Boat with an empty mind 108
- Ode on Beckett's death 110
- From Waving to Hart Crane (1994)
- Rock carving with Kevin Gilbert 113
- Folk song 114
- Waving to Hart Crane 115
- Cornflowers 116
- The Australian crawl 118
- Alcohol 119
- A future book 121
- Side of the creek 122
- What I have of faith 124
- From The Language of Oysters (1997)
- Meshing bends in the light 126
- The language of oysters 127
- From Black Water: Approaching Zukofsky (1999)
- The Stone Curlew
- The stone curlew 130
- The pheasant-tailed jacana 131
- The great knot 132
- Arctic jaeger 133
- The whimbrel 134
- The southern skua 135
- Tropic Bird
- When the light slants against the tide 136
- Drum of fire 137
- In the open air 138
- At Berry's Bay 139
- Swimming out with Emmylou Harris 140
- Tropic bird 141
- Kingfishers appearing 142
- Crows in afternoon sunlight 143
- The gathering light 144
- Approaching Zukofsky
- Meaning 145
- The night heron 146
- The bunker 147
- The white abyss 149
- Approaching Zukofsky 150
- Black water 152
- Daybook for Eurydice
- A sprig of delphinium (2 pm) 153
- Raining italics (4 pm) 153
- The transcribed hoop (6 pm) 154
- The visible, the untrue (1 pm) 154
- The bower of bliss (1 am) 155
- Nothing on the mind (3 am) 155
- Our different versions (4 am) 156
- The sepia hummock (10.30 am) 156
- She speaks, language falls apart 157
- At the ferry, the tide 157
- Song 158
- Coda: the nightjar 158
- Creon's Dream
- After Brett Whiteley 159
- The art critic 160
- Creon's dream 161
- From Mulberry Leaves (2001)
- Eventail: for Mery in Paris 164
- On not seeing Paul Cezanne 165
- Symbolism 166
- Elizabeth Bishop in Tasmania 167
- The upland sandpiper 168
- The Hudsonian godwit 169
- The cow bird 170
- Memory walks 171
- Reaching light 172
- Coal & Candle Creek 173
- Spring night 174
- Domestic shuffle 175
- Father's Day 176
- Letter to James McAuley 177
- Letter to Chris Brennan 178
- Letter to John Tranter 179
- Letter to Vicki Viidikas 180
- Letter to Robert Creeley 181
- Letter to Tom Raworth 182
- Letter to Bob Dylan 183
- The flow-through 184
- Fishing in a landscape for love 185
- Harriet and Mary 186
- Cornflowers 187
- Flannel flowers for Juno 188
- Juno & Eurydice 189
- Reading Georg Trakl 190
- Eurydice in Sydney 191
- Mulberry leaves 192
- New Poems (2004)
- The first chance was the last chance 195
- The dollarbird 196
- Middle Harbour to The Heads 197
- Flag-tailed bird of paradise 198
- The goldfinches of Baghdad 199
- Not a penny sonnets 200
- Apostlebird 202
- Black laughter 203
- Gang gang cockatoos 204
- Elegy 205
- Red-necked avocet 206
- Major Mitchell's pink cockatoo 207
- Thinking of Eurydice at midnight 208
- The red-bearded bee-eater 209
- Rainbow bee-eaters 210
- The grey whistler 211
- Brahminy kite 212
- Eclectus parrot 213
- The ruff 214.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Distributor from label on P. [4] of cover.
- ISBN:
- 1852246391
- OCLC:
- 55586911
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