Reading The River: Selected Poems

by Robert Adamson

Robert Adamson has been nourished for much of his life by Australia's Hawkesbury River. These poems praise nature-red in tooth and claw-and celebrate existence as a mythological quest. The early poems trace his own journey through a difficult childhood, prison, and exile in the city, the source of hard-won skepticism undercutting the highly personal Romanticism and daring lyricism of his later work.

Genres: Poetry

223 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2004