Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Text of the Original Media Release Appointing Robert Adamson as The First Chair in Australian Poetry at the University of Technology, Sydney
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'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)

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    y separately published work icon Rochford Street Review Robert Adamson Special Issue no. 35 2 2022 25515986 2022 periodical issue

    '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.' 

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