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  • Author:agent Robert Adamson http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/adamson-robert
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'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)

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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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