{"product_id":"product-later-verses-by-robert-d-fitzgerald","title":"'Product: Later Verses' by Robert D. FitzGerald","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003ePublished when Robert D. FitzGerald was seventy-five, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProduct\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e gathers the late work of a poet who helped drag Australian verse away from the bush-ballad tradition and towards something more philosophical, historically alert and formally exact. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFitzGerald spent much of his working life as a surveyor, and that trained attention to boundaries, terrain and measurement enters poems concerned with time, memory, inheritance and the changing physical shape of Australia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese are poems full of Parramatta River ferries, colonial voyages, family legends, scars left on landscapes and voices recovered from written records. “Private Property,” for instance, begins with a sailor’s fatal decision to go ashore and worries at the way an uncertain event becomes family evidence through repetition. The late FitzGerald is less monumental than his earlier reputation suggests: more direct, personal and attentive to what disappears while people are busy turning experience into history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAngus \u0026amp; Robertson hardback, first edition, 1977. Good condition with substantial rubbing and edge wear to the dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45725032022099,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker-2026-06-21T200709.206_560ae287-92d3-4968-b0a9-1f305d32a291.png?v=1782098997","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/product-later-verses-by-robert-d-fitzgerald","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}