In late 2022 when I heard that Robert Adamson was terminally ill I, along with many others, recalled how Bob had influenced our work. Rochford Street Review decided to run a special tribute issue to celebrate Adamson’s contribution to poetry. This was published as Issue 35.
.– Mark Roberts
- Introduction to the Robert Adamson Special Issue
- Messages to Robert Adamson
- Vale Robert Adamson
- Robert Adamson Memorial Service Friday 13th January 2023, 1.15pm (AEDT) Live Streaming Details
Poems
- Canticle for the Bicentennial Dead – originally appeared in Issue 30
- Robert Adamson reading at the The inaugural ‘Reading the River’ poetry reading, 17 January 2020 – originally appeared in Issue 28
- ‘Golden flight’ A poem to Bob Adamson by Robyn Rowland
Robert Adamson, CAL Chair of Poetry at the University of Technology Sydney
- Text of the original media release appointing Robert Adamson as The first Chair in Australian Poetry at the University of Technology, Sydney
- Grace and Fury – Robert Adamson on Dorothy Hewett, Gwen Harwood & Fay Zwicky
- The Ambassador from Venus Robert Adamson on Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley
- The Grace of Accuracy – Imagination and the Details Necessary: Robert Adamson on Poetry
- Something Absolutely Splendid – Robert Adamson on Francis Webb
- The Ultimate Commitment: The Poetry of Michael Dransfield, Vicki Viidikas and Robert Harris by Robert Adamson
Other Essays
Reviews
- “Sweet as Torn Basil”: Susan Fealy Reviews Net Needle by Robert Adamson – Originally appeared in Issue 15.
- “Perception and Memory”: Robbie Coburn reviews Empty Your Eyes by Robert Adamson – Originally appeared in Issue 11
Links
- Three Poems and Webb Lecture by the Inaugural CAL Chair of Poetry Cordite
- Devin Johnston introducing Robert Adamson in the special Australian edition of Poetry Magazine (which Adamson edited) in 2016
- Life on the Hawkesbury: A photographer, a poet and a bowerbird called Spinoza – Candida Baker’s profile on Juno Gemes and Robert Adamson, Sydney Morning Herald 4 May 2018
- Robert Adamson recorded in conversation at the 2014 Adelaide Writers’ Week. ABC Radio National 18 Aug 2014
- Blackwater: the poetry of Robert Adamson ABC Radio National 21 Jan 200921 January 2009
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