Net Needle - Softcover

Adamson, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780373015 ISBN 13: 9781780373010

Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2016

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Críticas

'One of the finest Australian poets at work today.' - David Wheatley, Times Literary Supplement; '"Net Makers", at the end of Part One [of Net Needle], is effectively the collection's title-poem... This is Adamson at his most characteristic and memorable: the gritty realism with a lyrical edge; the "hands-on" knowledge of a physical craft; the opening-out into wider implications about people's emotional lives.' - Geoff Page, Sydney Morning Herald; '[Adamson's] body of work deserves to be on every high school and university syllabus, and in every bait and tackle shop, in the country... Net Needle once again shows Adamson to be a beneficiary of the more protean aspects of modernism, an emotionally warm and compassionate poet whose scarifying disclosures are never made simply to shuck the past.' - Gregory Day, Weekend Australian

Reseña del editor

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. Net Needle is his first new collection to be published in Britain since Reading the River: Selected Poems (2004) and The Kingfisher's Soul (2009). Net Needle brings together the presiding influences of Adamson's life, early and late. He casts an affectionate eye on the Hawkesbury fishermen who 'stitched their lives into my days', childhood escapades, lost literary comrades, the light and tides of the river, and the ambiance of his youth. Throughout, he is characteristically attuned to the natural world, sketching encounters both intimate and strange. These are poems of clear-eyed vision and mastery, borne of long experience, alert and at ease.

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• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1780373015
• ISBN 13: 9781780373010
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96