Julia Randall

Julia Randall (1924-2005) was an American poet.

Poetry

Julia Randall wrote seven volumes of poetry during her lifetime:

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• The Solstice Tree (1952)
• Mimic August (1960)
• The Puritan Carpenter (1965)
• Adam's Dream (1969)
• The Farewells (1981)
• Moving in Memory (1987)
• The Path to Fairview (1992)

She was awarded the American Poetry Society's Percy Bysshe Shelley Award in 1979/1980 in recognition of her outstanding poetry, and her "genius and need".

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Her poetry was included in 'No More Masks', an anthology of U.S. American women's poetry published in 1974.

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Examples of her poetry available online include

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• In Memory of Francis Fergusson (1904-1986)

Critical Commentary on her Poetry

John Dorsey of the Baltimore Sun described her as "one of the most intellectual poets of the 20th century."

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Moira Egan said, "Her poetry is lean and spare.... She used a quiet care to describe the landscape of Maryland and the interior landscape of her own memory, her sense of loss and her own mortality."

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