World Literature Today, January 1st, 1996
Robert Adamson's most recent book of poetry, Waving to Hart Crane, is also his most self-consciously experimental. His previous collection, The Clean Dark, garnered its full share of prizes in Australia and seemed to represent a culmination of his work, steadily built up over the course of numerous volumes since the 1960s. Even more than his Selected Poems 1970-1989, The Clean Dark showed Adamson at his best as a mature poet with a distinctive voice and range of interests. The experimentalism of the new book suggests an attempt to break new ground - or rather, to find high ground equal in ele...
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