Records [manuscript]. 1966-1985.

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Records [manuscript]. 1966-1985.

Correspondence, typescript poems, leaflets, photographs, artwork and financial records connected with the production of "New Poetry" magazine. The correspondence amounts to some 400 letters and dates mainly from 1979-1980, while the financial records date mainly from 1973-1980. Principal correspondents include David Brooks, Christopher Edwards, Billy Jones, Sylvia Kantarizis, Tom Shapcott, Richard Tipping, Vincent Buckley, Bruce Beaver, John Tranter, Fay Zwicky, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Rodney Hall, Andrew Taylor, Kate Llewellyn, Dennis Haskell, John Blight, Philip Roberts and John Forbes. Included in the collection is a file relating to the visit to Australia of American poet Robert Duncan in 1976.

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Libraries Australia

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Haskell, Dennis, 1948-....

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Dennis Haskell is a poet, editor, academic and literary critic. He has published material in a wide range of areas, including American, Australian and Asian literature; modernism and romanticism. From the description of Papers. 1977-1997. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 221989903 ...

Forbes, John, 1950-

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John Forbes, poet, was born in Melbourne but spent most of his life in Sydney. Early in his career, he was associated with the young Sydney writers associated with New Poetry. Later in the 1990s, he was associated with Scripsi magazine, and with other experimental poets. From the description of Papers. 1970-1988. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 222658791 ...

Adamson, Robert

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Poet. Canticles on the skin (1970) was Adamson's first published book of verse. It has been followed by many other anthologies, some of which are autobiographically based. He was President of the Poetry Society of Australia and co-editor of the journal New poetry. In 1984 he established Paper Bark Press. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1970-1998. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225826696 Poet. From the description of Robert Adamson manuscr...

Llewellyn, Kate, 1940-

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Poet and novelist. From the description of Kate Llewellyn manuscript collection. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 220400562 From the description of Kate Llewellyn manuscript collection, 1950-2003. 1950-2003. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225244359 ...

Shapcott, Thomas W.

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Poet & former accountant. Shapcott has published more than 36 titles including collections of poems, essays, short stories, novels, books for young readers & a study of the artist Charles Blackman. He was Executive Director of the National Book Council between 1992 & 1997, & currently holds the chair of Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1946-1997. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 2258265...

Creatrix, Cheryl, 1948-

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Poet, editor, and publisher. Married poet Robert Adamson, and as coeditors the Adamsons achieved success in the 1970s with their Poetry Society publishing ventures. Separated in 1977. Interviewed by Hazel De Berg in 1977 for the National Library's oral history program. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1971-1981. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225825458 ...

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...

Hall, Rodney, 1935-....

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Poet, novelist, arts administrator and musician. Rodney Hall's published works include collections of poetry, novels, travel books and biographies. He was Chairman of the Australia Council between 1991 and 1994. Oxford Companion to Australian literature, p. 338 and Who's who in Australia 2002, p. 827. From the description of Papers of Rodney Hall, 1954-1999 [manuscript]. 1954-1999. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223394817 ...

Kantaris, Sylvia

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Sylvia Kantaris was born Sylvia Mosely in Derbyshire in 1936. She was first published as a school girl in 1952. Kantaris studied French at Bristol University, and achieved a post-graduate Certificate in Education, during which time she was told she had no talent in poetry. Despite this, she wrote poetry whilst she worked as a teacher - first in Bristol and London, then in Australia, where she moved in 1962, with her husband, Emmanuel Kantarizis, a Greek born in Egypt, by whom she had two childre...

Tipping, Richard

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Poet. Author of Soft riots (winner of the Harris Jones Memorial Prize for poetry in 1972). From the description of Papers of Richard Tipping [manuscript]. 1968-1974. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225826438 ...

Edwards, Christopher, 1954-

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Brooks, David, 1953- 教育学

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Poet, author, reviewer, editor and academic, Brooks founded the Open Door Press, with Alan Gould and others, in the early 1970s. He was an Overseas Contributing Editor to New poetry and Poetry Australia while at the University of Toronto completing his MA and PhD. He was a Senior Tutor in the Department of English, University of Western Australia (1982-85), lecturer in the Department of English at the Australian National University (1986-91) and lecturer (1991-92) and Senior Lecturer (1992-) in ...

Jones, Billy 1935-

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Poet; born in New Jersey; has lived in Australia since the early 1960's and in Queensland since 1970. From the description of 'Colour Bar' Hotel, 1964 Jul 14 [manuscript]: lyric and music by Bill Jones. 1964. (The University of Queensland Library). WorldCat record id: 62545250 From the description of 'Colour Bar' Hotel [manuscript] / lyric and music by Bill Jones. 1964. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224617796 Poet; born in New Jersey; has lived in Austr...

Beaver, Bruce

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B. Beaver has published poems and a novel, but his plays are unpublished. From the description of Literary manuscripts [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225776282 Australian poet. From the description of Poets and others in love, [196-?]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530589 ...

Roberts, Philip, 1938-

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Canadian-born poet, printer and musician, who came to Australia in 1968. He is now Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sydney and runs his own printing press, Island Press. From the description of Papers of Robert Philip, 1970-1975 [manuscript]. 1970-1975. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225826308 ...

Wallace-Crabbe, Chris

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Poet and literary critic, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, has taught English at the University of Melbourne since 1968. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1964-1982. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225848285 ...

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988

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California poet. From the description of Robert Edward Duncan papers, 1960-1977. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122545242 Robert Duncan (January 7, 1919 -February 3, 1988) was an American poet and a student of H.D. and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco. Though associated with any number of literary traditions and schools, Duncan is often identified with the poets of the New American Poetry and B...

Tranter, John E.

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Poet and author, born in Cooma in 1943. Described as one of the leaders in the "New Wave" in Australian poetry. He has published four books of verse: The Livin' is Easy (1964), Parallax and Other Poems (1970), Red Movie and other poems (1972) and The Blast Area (1974), a one-act play The Man on the Landing (1968) and has written several book reviews. He has also edited Poetry Australia, Transit, Free Grass and Leather Jacket. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1964-1993. (L...

Zwicky, Fay, 1933-

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Taylor, Andrew, 1940-

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Andrew Taylor was born in 1940 in Warrambool, Victoria and educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne where he later lectured in the Department of English. In 1970 he was appointed a lecturer at the University of Adelaide. Collections of his poetry have been published: Cool change (1971). Ice Fishing (1973), The invention of fire (1976) Parabolas (1976) and a long poem The crystal absences, the trout (1978). From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1953-1978. (Lib...

Blight, John, 1913-

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John Blight was born in Unley, South Australia in 1913. His family moved to Queensland soon after. He was educated at Brisbane State High School. He subsequently gained qualifications as an accountant and worked in the timber industry. He was married to Beverley Madelaine D'Arcy-Irvine in 1942. They had two daughters. From the description of Religions [manuscript] 1974. (The University of Queensland Library). WorldCat record id: 62546011 From the description of On public tra...

Buckley, Vincent

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Buckley was Professor of English at the University of Melbourne from 1967. He was also a poet and an active participant in Australian Catholic intellectual life. From the description of Vincent Buckley manuscript collection. 1937-1991. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225725535 From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1952-1986. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225826118 Vincent Buckley was born in 1925, Romsey, Victoria. He co-founded the ma...