Southmost Twelve

Southmost Twelve
Author Robert D. Fitzgerald
Country Australia
Language English
Genre poetry collection
Publisher Angus and Robertson
Publication date
 1962
Media type Print
Pages 60 pp
Preceded by This Night's Orbit : Verses
Followed by Robert D. Fitzgerald

Southmost Twelve (1962) is the fifth poetry collection by Australian poet Robert D. Fitzgerald. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1962.[1]

The collection consists of 32 poems, all except three of which were previously published in various Australian poetry and general magazines. Its major poem is "The Wind at Your Door" which had only been published previously as a limited edition volume in 1959.[1]

Contents

Critical reception

Ronald McCuaig in The Bulletin noted "The masterpiece of Fitzgerald's book is 'The Wind at Your Door', for those who like what you might call representational poetry the finest poem he has written. In the meditative and metaphysical pieces and suites which precede it he is as good as ever he was; there is the same sharp acquisitive eye for image."[2]

In his review of the poetry collection in The Sydney Morning Herald Gustav Cross opined: "Directness, lucidity and a beautifully exact dramatic or logical construction mean much more to Mr Fitzgerald than richness of verbal texture. As in 'The Wind at Your Door,' the poet is most concerned to find a pattern of meaning underlying the chaos and senseless violence around us."[3]

Awards

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Austlit - Southmost Twelve by Robert D. Fitzgerald
  2. ↑ "Poets taken by surprise" by Ronald McCuaig, The Bulletin, 19 January 1963, p36
  3. ↑ "Australian Poetry" by Gustav Cross, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 February 1963, p16
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