Robert Adamson’s final book is a search for recognition and a poetic tribute to his love of nature

  • Written by: Craig Billingham, Lecturer, Creative Writing, UNSW Sydney
Robert Adamson’s final book is a search for recognition and a poetic tribute to his love of natureRainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus).Bernard Dupont, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Robert Adamson, one of our greatest poets, died aged 79 on December 16, 2022. By that time, as recorded in the biographical note in his final book, Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury, he had published 21 volumes of poetry and had long been a renowned...

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