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 of his youth. Throughout, he is characteristically attuned to the natural world, sketching encounters both intimate and strange. These are poems of clear-eyed vision and mastery, borne of long experience, alert and at ease.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1879 Edition.

1879. Throughout his lectures, Adamson pursued the critical and historical method without formulating a constructive theory of his own. He also felt that any philosophical advance must be based on the Kantian methods. This is a series of lectures delivered by Adamson in the University of Edinburgh in January 1879. The main themes in Kant's writings and philosophy centered on metaphysics, ethics, natural science, but religion and education were also central subjects for him.

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The Golden Bird brings together the best of Robert Adamson's work from the last four decades, as well as many superb new poems. Selected and arranged by the author, it provides an accessible introduction to Australia's foremost lyric poet and an insight into the recurring themes that have shaped his remarkable body of work. 'Robert Adamson is one of Australia's national treasures.' John Ashbery 'He is as deft and resourceful a craftsman as exists, and his poems move with a clarity and ease I find unique.' Robert Creeley 'This distinguished man of letters and major poet is one of the most significant gifts Australia can offer the rest of the world.' Nathaniel Tarn 'The spareness and taut energy of the more recent poems, for all Adamson's famous romanticism, seems classic; as if, like Yeats, he had discovered the exhilaration and enterprise of walking naked.' David Malouf

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