Records [manuscript]. 1940-1962.

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Records [manuscript]. 1940-1962.

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Records include correspondence with members and affiliated bodies typescripts of poems; TS draft of the First Anthology (1956); 3 sets (1 complete) of Prism; ledgers, accounts and other business papers; press cuttings and photographs. Also some personal papers of Imogen Whyse concerning her work in theatre and her activities in support of International Children's Communities in Europe. Correspondents include Dr. Felix Arnott, Peter Bladen, John Blair, D. Campbell, Betty Casey, Nancy Cato, D.M. Catts, Louis H. Clark, Stan Clarke, Patrick Coady, Brian Colebourne, Mary Coles, Commonwealth Literary Fund, Mary Cornish, Bishop Davidson, Eileen Davies, Margaret Dent, J. Devaney, Sir E. Millington-Drake (London) T. S. Eliot, Paula Fitzgerald, R.D. Fitzgerald, Vera Fitzgerald, J. Gielgud, Dame Mary Gilmore, Myrtle Glass, H.M. Green, Martin Haley, Dorothy Helmrich, A.D. Hope, P. Hopegood, R.G. Howarth, Hugh Hunt, Neil Hutchinson, Helen N. Jones, K.L. King, Ray Lawler, Norman Lindsay, A. Lloyd, James McAuley, M.B. McGrath, Prof. Milgate, Duncan Miller, Helen Reid, Dr. S. Scougall, Dame Edith Sitwell, W. Hart-Smith, D. Stewart and Judith Wright.

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Poetry Society of Australia

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Founded in Sydney in 1954 by Imogen Whyse, to promote appreciation and use of poetry and to assist new and unknown Australian poets. Activities organized by Miss Whyse included monthly publication of the poetry magazine Prism, fortnightly lectures & discussions on poetry, occasional dramatic productions of epic or verse plays a poetry library for members and the publication, 1956, of the Society's First Anthology, selected from Prism. The Society was reconstituted under a new Council in 1960...

Whyse, Imogen

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Imogen Whyse, 1885-1977, a poetess and actress who returned to Australia in 1945, founded the Poetry Society of Australia in 1954 and edited its journal Prism. She donated her collection of period costumes, 1789-1939, to the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, N.S.W., in 1958. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225776299 ...