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Subject(s)

• River life—Australia—Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

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. This is his first new collection to be published in Britain since "Reading the River: Selected Poems" (2004). Extending the territory covered by the later poems in that selection, this book takes Adamson's personal Romanticism and daring lyricism to a higher imaginative level. He confronts a range of contradictions: how the fish he kills to make a living also sustain his vision as poet; and how he uses birds from the sky for his paintings. He wonders about the existence of God as well as the different meanings of souls of humans, birds, fish and animals. Some of the poems look at war, and many come back again to love.

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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: Part One
• Walking by the River
• Ungaretti at Broken Bay
• A Bend in the Euphrates
• The Kingfisher's Soul
• The Whitebait
• Brush Turkey in the Cold Room
• My Grandfather's Ice Pigeons
• The Lakeside Rituals
• Narkissos on a Gamefishing Boat
• The Net
• The Fledglings
• In Winter Night
• Pied Butcher Bird Flute Solo
• Looking into a Bowerbird's Eye
• The Golden Bird
• Joseph Cornell's Tools
• At Rock River
• Bolinas Bay, An Ode
• In side Robert Creeley's Collected Poems
• Summer At Carcoar
• A Visitation
• The Guard's Advice
• Easter Fish
• The Greenshank
• Black Laughter, Budapest 1934
• Autumn, Europe 1943
• Black Laughter, Sydney
• The Intervention
• Praise and Its Shadow
• Death of a Cat
• Part Two
• Eurydice and the Mudlark
• Letter to Eurydice
• The Floating Head
• The Serpent
• Eurydice and the Tawny Frogmouth
• Singing His Head Off
• Eurydice, after a Midnight Storm
• Eurydice in Sydney.
• Note continued: Eurydice Combs Her Hair
• Eurydice Agape
• Eurydice on Fire
• Eurydice Reads Roots and Branches
• Thinking of Eurydice at Midnight
• Part Three
• The Flag-tailed Bird of Paradise
• The Goldfinches of Baghdad
• The Stone Curlew
• The Jesus Bird
• The Great Knot
• The Southern Skua
• The Pheasant-Tailed Jacana
• Arctic Jaeger
• The Cow Bird
• The Hudsonian Godwit
• Red-necked Avocet
• Major Mitchell's Cockatoo
• Eclectus Parrot
• Gang-gang Cockatoos
• The Ruff
• The Grey Whistler
• The Dollarbird
• The Red-bearded Bee-eater
• Rainbow Bee-Eaters
• Lyrebirds.

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ISBN

• 9781852248208
• 1852248203

OCLC

368181358

RCP

H - S

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