Michael Dransfield / Peter Kocan manuscript collection.

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Michael Dransfield / Peter Kocan manuscript collection.

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Correspondence from Michael Dransfield to Peter Kocan, and poetry drafts by Michael Dransfield sent to Peter Kocan.

5 cm.

Libraries Australia

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SNAC Resource ID: 7033892

Libraries Australia

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Dransfield, Michael, 1948-1973

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Michael Dransfield was educated at Sydney Grammar School. After studying at university and working as a journalist, he began writing poetry full-time. His works include Streets of the long voyage (1970), Drug poems (1972) and The inspector of tides (1972). From the description of Papers of Michael Dransfield, 1968-1972 [manuscript]. 1968-1972. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225633015 ...

Kocan, Peter, 1947-...

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Peter Kocan was born in Newcastle, NSW, and grew up in Melbourne, Vic. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1966 following an attempted assassination of Arthur Calwell. Kocan was incarcerated for the next 10 years, first in prison and then in Morisset Hospital. During this time he began writing poetry, publishing his first anthology, The other side of the fence, in 1975. He has since published poetry and prose, including several plays, as well as working in amateur theatre as an actor and pr...