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Alternative title: Robert Adamson Special Issue
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... no. 35 2 2022 of Rochford Street Review est. 2011 Rochford Street Review
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'Last month when I heard Robert Adamson was terminally ill I, along with many others, recalled how Bob had influenced our work.

'I first came across Bob as a teenage through New Poetry magazine. At 16 I fancied myself as a poet – I wrote down and studied Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell lyrics and tried to relate to the poetry I was encountering at high school. Then one day, in Abbey’s Bookshop in Sydney I came across my first poetry magazine – it just so happened to be New Poetry (Volume Twenty Four: Number Three). Inside I discovered, among others, the work of Adamson along with J.S. Harry, Robert Duncan, Philip Roberts and David Malouf. I was hooked.' 

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2022 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Canticle for the Bicentennial Deadi"They are talking, in their cedar benched rooms", Robert Adamson , single work poetry
Robert Adamson Reading at the The Inaugural ‘Reading the River’ Poetry Reading, 17 January 2020., single work
Text of the Original Media Release Appointing Robert Adamson as The First Chair in Australian Poetry at the University of Technology, Sydney, single work column

'The first Chair in Australian Poetry to be filled by a major practising poet has been announced. The poet Robert Adamson will take up his post at UTS in February 2012. Funded by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) for three years the Chair in Australian Poetry is the first of its kind in Australia and is based on the model of the Oxford Professor of Poetry. Head of Creative Practices at UTS, Professor John Dale, said that Robert Adamson was chosen from a very strong field including several of Australia’s leading poets. ‘Robert Adamson’s passion and enthusiasm for poetry will inspire staff and students during his residency at UTS,’ Dale said. ‘Robert Adamson is one of the great poets of place and his presence at UTS will promote the recognition and enjoyment of Australian poetry internationally.’' (Introduction)

The Ultimate Commitment : The Poetry of Michael Dransfield, Vicki Viidikas and Robert Harris by Robert Adamson, Robert Adamson , single work criticism
“Who was Michael Dransfield?”, Robert Adamson , single work review
— Review of Michael Dransfield's Lives : A Sixties Biography Patricia Dobrez , 1999 single work biography ;
“Sweet as Torn Basil”: Susan Fealy Reviews Net Needle by Robert Adamson, Susan Fealy , single work
— Review of Net Needle Robert Adamson , 2015 selected work poetry ;

'Net Needle is the first stand-alone collection of new poems since The Goldfinches of Baghdad (2006) and the first full-length since Adamson published his selected poems thematically for The Golden Bird (2008). It is tempting to wonder whether reimagining his past work was a prelude to this new collection. Net Needle is a highly organized, living composition which interrogates language, poetics, trauma and mortality within a framework focused on limits and continuities. The abstract is voiced in a fresh and vital lyric that is passionately engaged and often evokes the natural world. The two words of the title work hard. Net Needle connotes thingness, the interdependence of tool and artefact, tradition, yet deconstructed the title can be read as two verbs.' (Introduction)

“Perception and Memory” : Robbie Coburn Reviews ‘Empty Your Eyes’ by Robert Adamson, Robbie Coburn , single work review
— Review of Empty Your Eyes Robert Adamson , 2013 selected work poetry ;
Messages to Robert Adamson, single work prose poetry

'The following are messages to Bob submitted to Rochford Street Review as part of the special Robert Adamson issue. Please go to the bottom of the page to submit your own message.'   

Vale Robert Adamson, single work obituary

'When we learnt that Robert Adamson had been diagnosed with terminal cancer we decided to devote the next issue of Rochford Street Review to him in recognition of his life and work. In particular we wanted to publish the essays he had delivered as the first CAL Chair in Australian Poetry at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Bob had given us the essays to publish and we had intended to run them over coming issues, instead we published them one after each other so that he knew that the essays had been published and were available to a wider audience.' (Introduction)  

Grace and Fury – Robert Adamson on Dorothy Hewett, Gwen Harwood & Fay Zwicky, Robert Adamson , single work criticism
The Grace of Accuracy – Imagination and the Details Necessary : Robert Adamson on Poetry, Robert Adamson , single work essay

'The American poet Wallace Stevens wrote the following intriguing sentence:  “The nobility of poetry is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without”. Seamus Heaney responded to this line of Stevens in one of his Oxford lectures: “It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality.’’' (Introduction)

Something Absolutely Splendid – Robert Adamson on Francis Webb, Robert Adamson , single work essay
The Ultimate Commitment : The Poetry of Michael Dransfield, Vicki Viidikas and Robert Harris by Robert Adamson, Robert Adamson , single work criticism

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