Southmost Twelve
First edition | |
Author | Robert D. Fitzgerald |
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Language | English |
Genre | poetry collection |
Publisher | Angus and Robertson |
Publication date | 1962 |
Publication place | Australia |
Media type | |
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
- "What Coin Soever"
- "Edge"
- "Southmost Twelve"
- "The Waterfall"
- "Verities"
- "Grace Before Meat"
- "One Day's Journey"
- "Song in Autumn"
- "Drift"
- "Bog and Candle"
- "Insight : Creak of the Crow"
- "Insight : The Dunce's Cap"
- "Insight : Wings Above Wings"
- "Insight : In the Street"
- "Insight : Vision"
- "Insight : Memorial Arch"
- "Strata"
- "Macquarie Place"
- "Quayside Meditation"
- "Tocsin"
- "Protest"
- "This Between Us..."
- "Relic at Strength-Fled"
- "Embarkation"
- "Caprice"
- "As Between Neighbours..."
- "Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of One Thing and Another"
- "Album Verse (To J. K. F. G.)"
- "Laus Deo"
- "The Wind at Your Door"
- "Beginnings"
- "Acknowledgement to Norman Lindsay"
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
- 1962 - winner Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
See also
- 1962 in Australian literature
- 1962 in poetry
References
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- Pacific Sea by Nan McDonald (1947)
- A Drum for Ben Boyd by Francis Webb (1948)
- Woman to Man by Judith Wright (1949)
- No award (1950)
- The Great South Land : An Epic Poem by Rex Ingamells (1951)
- Between Two Tides by R. D. Fitzgerald (1952)
- Tumult of the Swans by Roland Robinson (1953)
- Thirty Poems by John Thompson (1954)
- The Wandering Islands by A. D. Hope (1955)
- No award (1956)
- Elegiac and Other Poems by Leonard Mann (1957)
- Antipodes in Shoes by Geoffrey Dutton (1958)
- The Wind at Your Door by R. D. Fitzgerald (1959)
- Man in a Landscape by Colin Thiele (1960)
- Time on Fire by Thomas Shapcott (1961)
- Southmost Twelve by R. D. Fitzgerald (1962)
- The North-Bound Rider by Ian Mudie (1963)
- All the Room by David Rowbotham (1964)
- The Ilex Tree by Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann (1965)
- The Talking Clothes: Poems by William Hart-Smith (1966)
- Collected Poems 1936-1967 by Douglas Stewart (1967)
- Selected Poems 1942-1968 by David Campbell (1968)
- A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems by Randolph Stow (1969)
- Letters to Live Poets by Bruce Beaver (1970)
- Judith Wright: Collected Poems, 1942-1970 by Judith Wright (1971)
- Collected Poems 1936-1970 by James McAuley (1971)
- Head-waters by Peter Skrzynecki (1972)
- A Soapbox Omnibus by Rodney Hall (1973)
- Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems by David Malouf (1974)
- Selected Poems (1975) by Gwen Harwood (1975)
- Selected Poems 1939–1975 by John Blight (1976)
- Selected Poems by Robert Adamson (1977)
- Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems 1954-1978 by Bruce Dawe (1978)
- The Man in the Honeysuckle by David Campbell (1979)
- The Boys Who Stole the Funeral by Les Murray (1980)
- Nero's Poems: Translations of the Public and Private Poems of the Emperor Nero by Geoffrey Lehmann (1981)
- Tide Country by Vivian Smith (1982)
- Collected Poems by Peter Porter (1983)
- The Three Fates and Other Poems by Rosemary Dobson (1984)
- Selected Poems 1963-1983 by Robert Gray (1985)
- The Amorous Cannibal by Chris Wallace-Crabbe (1985)
- Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs by Rhyll McMaster (1986)
- Occasions of Birds and Other Poems by Elizabeth Riddell (1987)
- Under Berlin by John Tranter (1988)
- A Tremendous World in Her Head by Dorothy Hewett (1989)
- No award (1990)
- Dog Fox Field by Les Murray (1991)
- Empire of Grass by Gary Catalano (1992)
- Peniel by Kevin Hart (1992)
- The End of the Season by Philip Hodgins (1993)
- No award (1994)
- New and Selected Poems by Kevin Hart (1995)
- Flying the Coop : New and Selected Poems 1972-1994 by Rhyll McMaster (1995)
- Path of Ghosts: poems 1986-93 by Jemal Sharah (1995)
- No award (1996)
- The Undertow: New and Selected Poems by John Kinsella (1997)
- No award (1998)
- No award (1999)
- No award (2000)
- Darker and Lighter by Geoff Page (2001)
- Versary by Kate Lilley (2002)
- Lost in the Foreground by Stephen Edgar (2003)
- Totem by Luke Davies (2004)
- Next to Nothing by Noel Rowe (2005)
- The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003 by Alan Gould (2006)
- The Goldfinches of Baghdad by Robert Adamson (2007)
- The Australian Popular Songbook by Alan Wearne (2008)
- No award (2009)
- Phantom Limb by David Musgrave (2010)
- No award (2011)
- Another Fine Morning in Paradise by Michael Sharkey (2012)