Robert Adamson’s final book is a search for recognition and a poetic tribute to his love of nature
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Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury – Robert Adamson (Upswell) In 2004, Adamson published Inside Out: An Autobiography.
Key Points:
- Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury – Robert Adamson (Upswell) In 2004, Adamson published Inside Out: An Autobiography.
- Adamson grew up in Neutral Bay on Sydney’s lower north shore, which afforded him ample opportunity to pursue his interest.
- It is a terrifying, beautiful scene, recounted not by the fallen boy, of course, but the poet he became.
- What I think I was aiming for when I stared into each bird’s eyes was some flicker of recognition, some sign of connection between us.
- What I think I was aiming for when I stared into each bird’s eyes was some flicker of recognition, some sign of connection between us.
- Theories of recognition have a long history, which in the Western tradition date back at least as far as Hegel.
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Blunt and honest
- This was the year of Mr Roberts, the teacher who introduced me to poetry and what they called nature studies.
- This was the year of Mr Roberts, the teacher who introduced me to poetry and what they called nature studies.
- It helped, too, that Mr Roberts “knew a bit about birds” and that he was encouraging about projects and assignments.
- The young Adamson lights up, a recognition undimmed, even when a new teacher tells him “to forget [his] ambition”.
- Nature was blunt and honest.
- There was no third party, no good manners, no god involved – no reasoning or theology, let alone spelling and maths.
- Nature was blunt and honest.
- It is to do with the field of being; you can project yourself back to the original lores, rites and rituals.
- It is to do with the field of being; you can project yourself back to the original lores, rites and rituals.
Craig Billingham has previously received funding from The Australia Council for the Arts (now Create Australia).