Robert Adamson

Robert Adamson (1943-2022) was an Australian poet with a career spanning five decades and countless literary awards, including the Christopher Brennan Prize for lifetime achievement, the Patrick White Award, and the Age Book of the Yar Award. He was a key player in the growth of the 'New Australian Poetry' and an editor of New Poetry from 1968-1982. With his wife, the photographer Juno Gemes, he published Paper Bark Press, one of Australia's most important publishers of poetry, from 1986-2003. Over his lifetime, Adamson published twenty-one volumes of his poetry in Australia, the United States, and Great Britain, and his poems have been translated into several languages. He also published a celebrated autobiography, Inside Out, in 2004. In the last year of his life, Adamson assembled Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury (Upswell, 2024), a collection of his nature writings.