Robert Adamson (poet)

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Robert Adamson (born 1944) is an Australian poet and publisher.

Adamson grew up in Neutral Bay and spent much of his teenage years in Gosford Boys Home. He discovered poetry while educating himself in gaol in his 20s. His first book, Canticles on the Skin, was published in 1970. He acknowledges the influence of, among others, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Robert Duncan and Hart Crane upon his writing.

In the 1970s and 1980s he edited New Poetry magazine and in 1988 with his partner Juno Gemes established Paper Bark Press. Adamson was awarded the 1990 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and in 1994 FAW Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in literature.

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NAME Adamson, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Contemporary Australian poet and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH


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