Net Needle

Nourished for much of his life by Australia's Hawkesbury River, Adamson's poetry praises nature - red in tooth and claw - and celebrates existence as a mythological quest. 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, and the light and tides of the river. Throughout, he is characteristically attuned to the natural world, sketching encounters both intimate and strange.