- The Golden Bird brings together the best of Robert Adamsons work from the last four decades, as well as many superb new poems. Selected and arranged by the author, it provides an accessible introduction to Australias foremost lyric poet and an insight into the recurring themes that have shaped his remarkable body of work. Robert Adamson is one of Australias national treasures. John AshberyHe is as deft and resourceful a craftsman as exists, and his poems move with a clarity and ease I find unique. Robert CreeleyThis distinguished man of letters and major poet is one of the most significant gifts Australia can offer the rest of the world. Nathaniel TarnThe spareness and taut energy of the more recent poems, for all Adamsons famous romanticism, seems classic; as if, like Yeats, he had discovered the exhilaration and enterprise of walking naked. David Malouf