Born in 1943, Robert Adamson lives with his partner, photographer Juno Gemes, on the Hawkesbury River to the north of Sydney in Australia. Over the past five decades he has produced twenty books of poetry. He is the author of three collections published by Flood Editions: REACHING LIGHT: SELECTED POEMS (2020), NET NEEDLE (2015), and THE GOLDFINCHES OF BAGHDAD (2006). He has been awarded the Christopher Brennan Prize for lifetime achievement, the Patrick White Award, and The Age Book of the Year Award for THE GOLDFINCHES OF BAGHDAD.