Robert Adamson (1943–2022) was an Australian poet with a career spanning five decades and countless literary awards, including the Christopher Brennan Prize for lifetime achievement, the Patrick White Award, and the Age Book of the Year Award. He was a key player in the growth of the ‘New Australian Poetry’ and an editor of New Poetry from 1968–1982. With his wife, the photographer Juno Gemes, he published Paper Bark Press, one of Australia’s most important publishers of poetry, from 1986–2003. Over his lifetime, Adamson published twenty-one volumes of his poetry in Australia, the United States, and Great Britain, and his poems have been translated into several languages. He also published a celebrated autobiography, Inside Out, in 2004. In the last year of his life, Adamson assembled Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury (Upswell, 2024), a collection of his nature writings.
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