Robert Adamson manuscript collection.

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Robert Adamson manuscript collection.

Summary: Manuscripts, correspondence, notes, scrapbooks, galleys, proof pages, photographs and newspaper clippings concerning Adamson's works, 'The clean dark', 'Wards of the state', 'Selected poems, 1970-1990', and 'Waving to Hart Crane'. The collection also includes manuscripts and proofs of works by other Australian writers including 'The partiality of harbours', by Manfred Jurgensen (published by Adamson), 'Four Zoas of Australia', by Norman Talbot, 'Jane Interlinear and other poems', by Robert Harris, and 'Unintended consequences', by Lily Brett. Correspondents include Robert Harris, Anthony Lawrence, Peter Craven, Fay Zwicky, Kevin Hart and Gwen Harwood. A continuing collection.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7027297

Libraries Australia

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Adamson, Robert

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Poet. Canticles on the skin (1970) was Adamson's first published book of verse. It has been followed by many other anthologies, some of which are autobiographically based. He was President of the Poetry Society of Australia and co-editor of the journal New poetry. In 1984 he established Paper Bark Press. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1970-1998. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225826696 Poet. From the description of Robert Adamson manuscr...