Papers of Ronald Albert Simpson, 1949-1999 [manuscript]. 1949-1999.

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Papers of Ronald Albert Simpson, 1949-1999 [manuscript]. 1949-1999.

Correspondence with writers, publishers and editors, including Alexander Craig, Thomas W. Shapcott, Rodney Hall, Kenneth Slessor, Michael Dransfield, Nancy Cato, Randolph Stow, John Wain, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, A.D. Hope and Douglas Stewart. Manuscripts and published versions of poems, including the collections The walk along the beach (1960), The real Pompeii, (1964), After the assassination (1968) and Diver (1972). Also manuscripts of poems by many of the writers listed above (especially Chris Wallace-Crabbe and John Wain) and others. Photographs, reviews, newscuttings, printed items. Also includes manuscripts, correspondence, cuttings and other papers, and 1 folder poems "The Forbidden city", plus drawings related to the poems.

2.52 m. (18 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7074501

Libraries Australia

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Simpson, R. A. (Ronald Albert), 1929-2002

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Simpson was born in Melbourne and studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He taught in schools in England and Australia before his appointment to Melbourne's Chisholm Institute of Technology in 1968. He was poetry editor of the Bulletin (1963-65) and the Age (1969-97). His poetry has appeared in many anthologies and he has published almost a dozen collections. During the 1990s he and his work received a number of awards, including the Christopher Brennan Award (1992) and the Age ...

Simpson, R. A. (Ronald Albert), 1929-2002

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Simpson was born in Melbourne and studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He taught in schools in England and Australia before his appointment to Melbourne's Chisholm Institute of Technology in 1968. He was poetry editor of the Bulletin (1963-65) and the Age (1969-97). His poetry has appeared in many anthologies and he has published almost a dozen collections. During the 1990s he and his work received a number of awards, including the Christopher Brennan Award (1992) and the Age ...

Craig, Alexander, 1923-

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Craig has published three volumes of verse, Farback Country (1955), The Living Sky (1964) and When No-one is Looking (1977). He also edited the anthology, Twelve Poets, 1950-1970 (1971). From the description of Papers of Alexander Craig [manuscript]. 1950-1977. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225826458 ...