The Wind at Your Door

The Wind at Your Door
Author R. D. Fitzgerald
Country Australia
Language English
Genre Poetry
Publisher Talkarra Press
Publication date
1959
Media type Print
Pages 15pp
Preceded by Heemskerck Shoals
Followed by Southmost Twelve

The Wind at Your Door (1959) is a one-poem volume by Australian poet R. D. Fitzgerald. The poem was originally published in The Bulletin on 17 December 1958, and later in this 275 copy Talkarra Press limited edition, signed by the author. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1959.[1]

Outline

The poem is based on the uprising of Irish rebel convicts at Castle Hill, New South Wales in 1804. It concerns two main characters, Martin Mason surgeon, and overseer of the brutal flogging of the poet's namesake, Morris Fitzgerral.

Critical reception

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature noted that "...Fitzgerald sees the continuing problem, on both the both national and the individual level, of the Australian identity. On the general level is the problem of the nation adapting to its development from a 'jail-yard'; on th epersonal level is the problem of individual Australians (in this case the poet himself) adapting to both sides of their ancestry, authoritarianism and rebellion against authority."[2]

Notes

The convict Morris Fitzgerral also appears in Thomas Keneally's novel Passenger (1979).[2]

Further publications

See also

References

  1. Austlit - The Wind at Your Door by R. D. Fitzgerald
  2. 1 2 The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd edition, p821
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