Reading the river : selected poems / Robert Adamson
2004, First Edition. Tarset, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books. Presentation copy to Peter Porter. Very good paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Spine slightly sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #465451
ISBN: 1852246391
Physical description; 223 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; From Canticles on the Skin (1970) -- The rebel angel -- Demimondane -- Through a trammel of lives -- Toward abstraction/possibly a gull's wing -- From The Rumour (1971) -- Action would kill it/a gamble -- The unpopular scale of values -- Passing through experiences -- The domesticity -- A revelation -- Card tables covered with dice -- Getting further away -- From Swamp Riddles (1974) -- Things going out of my life -- Sibyl -- Goshawk over Broken Bay -- Sonnets to be written from prison -- The beautiful season -- Some more experiences -- Wind without flags -- Sail away -- The crossing -- The shining incidents -- A new legend -- Drifting through silence -- The night parrots -- The ghost crabs -- Berowra Waters -- From Cross the Border (1977) -- Lovesong from across the border -- Parrot poem -- Dead Horse Bay -- The river -- Apprehensions -- Sunlight, moonlight -- From Where I Come From (1979) -- My house -- My granny -- The harbour bridge -- My first proper girlfriend -- My tenth birthday -- My fishing boat -- Growing up alone -- My afternoon -- From The Law at Heart's Desire (1982) -- Rimbaud having a bath -- The home, the spare room -- Into forest -- In the night -- Glass Bay sonnets -- Landscape -- From The Clean Dark (1989) -- Remembering posts -- Green prawn map -- The channels -- Songs for Juno -- American sonnet -- The Jesus bird -- Fishing with my stepson -- Couplets -- Silva -- Clear water reckoning -- The details necessary -- Sonnets for Robert Duncan -- No river, no death -- Farming the oysters. Subjects; 1900-1999. Australian poetry 20th century. English poetry 20th century. Australian poetry. Australia.
Price: €60.00