Description
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.






101 Poems About Childhood
Pamela Censured (1741)
Bridge 116
Room On The Broom
Let's Celebrate!
The Mighty Stream
Book of Mercy