Reading the River: Selected Poems

Robert Adamson has been nourished for much of his life by Australia's Hawkesbury River. These poems praise nature-red in tooth and claw-and celebrate existence as a mythological quest. The early poems trace his own journey through a difficult childhood, prison, and exile in the city, the source of hard-won skepticism undercutting the highly personal Romanticism and daring lyricism of his later work.