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Manuscript Name | Papers of Geoff Page |
Manuscript Number | MSS 258 |
Last Updated | October 2021 |
Extent | 6.15m (51 boxes) |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Correspondence, 1973-1989, drafts, newspaper clippings, notes, page proofs, audio cassettes for Page's poetry and prose works, including Winter vision (1989), Benton's conviction (1985), Invisible histories (1990), Small town memorials (1975) and Century of clouds/selected poems from the French of Guillaume Apollinaire [by] Geoff Page and Wendy Coutts(1985). |
In addition to documenting Geoff Page's writing career from the early 1970's to 1997, the collection provides a rich source of material for researchers of the Australian literary scene over this period. The extensive correspondence provides a picture of the Australian literary community of the time and gives a strong sense of a network of writers. The correspondence (1973-1997) includes dealings with publishers, journals and newspapers, literary news and events and an extensive personal correspondence with a range of Australian authors, including Geoffrey Dutton, Rodney Hall, A.D. Hope, Robert Gray, Les Murray, John Tranter, Judith Wright, Kevin Hart, Paul Hetherington and Thomas Shapcott. The collection also includes drafts, newspaper clippings, notes, page proofs, and audio cassettes of Page's poetry and prose works. Works represented include Winter vision (1989), Benton's conviction (1985), Invisible histories (1990), Small town memorials (1975), Century of clouds/selected poems from the French of Guillaume Apollinaire (with Wendy Coutts, 1985), Smiling in English, smoking in French (1987), On the move : Australian poets in Europe (1992), Human interest (1994), A reader's guide to contemporary Australian poetry (1995), Mrs Schnell arrives in heaven (1996), The great forgetting (1996), Bernie McGann: a life in jazz (1997) and final edited manuscripts of his poetry volumes Cassandra Paddocks(1980), Clairvoyant in autumn (1983), Collected lives (1986), Footwork (1988), Invisible histories (1990), Gravel corners (1992) and The secret (1996). The collection also contains manuscripts of scripts for radio features, TV and stage plays and a film script for Benton's conviction with related correspondence.
1960-2006
Geoff Page was born on the 7 July 1940 in Grafton, NSW. Page is the son of Donald and Helen Page; the family's connection with the Clarence River district goes back to the mid nineteenth century. Page's grandfather, Sir Earle Page (q.v), founded the conservative Country Party (renamed the National Party). Page has been an active Labor Party supporter. He was educated at the Armidale School and the University of New England 1958-1962. In 1959 he spent a year in National Service. Page moved to Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, in 1964, and taught English and History in Canberra schools. He was in charge of the English Department at Narrabundah College from 1974 until his retirement in 2001. Page has been writer-in-residence at a number of academic institutions, including Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, the Australian Defence Force Academy, and the University of Wollongong.
Active in the literary community, Page participated in poetry readings, seminars and conferences in Australia, China, Europe, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States. As well as editing a number of anthologies and collections, he wrote a musical biography, Bernie McGann : a life in jazz (1997) and interviewed a wide range of jazz musicians for the National Film and Sound Archive. Page is an amateur jazz drummer. He has reviewed poetry for major Australian journals and newspapers and has been a regular contributor to the ABC Radio Books and Writing program. Page's poetry has regularly appeared in a wide range of journals, newspapers and anthologies. His verse continually reaffirms the personal significance of the Clarence River area, and underlines its pivotal role in creating a sense of place in Page's work and life. Old age and death recur as themes through much of his poetry, as does the clash between Aboriginal and English culture during the settlement period, and an exploration of the poet's family history and relationships.
Page has published in the areas of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and criticism, and has written literary criticism and drama for radio, television and the stage. His unpublished plays include The life and death of James Lionel Michael : solicitor and poet [n.d.], 'Sally Rivers' All Girl Band' (1990) and 'Drumming on Water' (2006).
Page has been awarded:
Patrick White Award, 2001: winner
Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships, Literature Board Fellowship, 2000
Festival Awards for Literature (SA), John Bray Award for Poetry, 2006: shortlisted for Freehold : verse novel
Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award, 2006: shortlisted for Freehold : verse novel
Australian Capital Territory Poetry Award, Rosemary Dobson Award for an Unpublished Poem by an Australian Poet, 2005: commended for 'Quattrocento'
Australian Capital Territory Poetry Award, David Campbell Award for an Unpublished Poem by an ACT Poet, 2005: commended for 'Quattrocento'
Festival Awards for Literature (SA), John Bray Award for Poetry, 2004: shortlisted for Darker and lighter
Australian Capital Territory Poetry Award, 2004: winner for 'The Stalinists, the Taliban '
Grace Leven Poetry Prize, 2001: winner for Darker and lighter
Great Sonnet Competition, 2000: shortlisted for 'The recipe'
The Robert Harris Poetry Prize, 1996: winner for 'The secret : 1954 ' The Robert Harris Poetry Prize, 1994: winner for 'The heirs'
Warana Writers' Awards, Premier's Poetry Award, 1990: winner for 'Five Australian maps'
National Book Council Award for Australian Literature, 1985: shortlisted for Benton's conviction.
References:
AustLit : The Resource for Australian Literature, March 2007.
Papers of Geoff Page, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, MSS 258, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
Poets, Australian -- 20th century -- Archives.
Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Archives.
Folder 42
Typescript drafts of radio plays 'The line of least resistance', 'The poets tongue : a first hearing', 'William Carlos Williams : an introduction', 'The poetry of Weldon Kees', 'Bertolt Brecht, the poet' and 'In the microscope : the poems of Miroslav Holub'
Folder 84
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Is this the end', 'Silverwinds', 'Seven Sins', 'Television', 'Grafton', 'Seven sins', 'Late night radio', 'Rear vision' and 'Tuesdays at the age of six'
Folder 85
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Dialogue with hardened artery', 'A letter of congratulations', 'The tenor', 'Circuits', 'A light dry rime for Alec Hope', 'H II900', 'The caption', 'Politics', 'Ceremony' and 'Bus full of widows'
Folder 86
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems (1980s) 'Leasing the dreams', 'Fish with coffee', 'The movie', 'A Japanese polka', 'Transparencies', 'The frame', 'Home address' and 'Tragedy of transformations'
Folder 87
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Shorthand', 'The great man', 'How to believe', 'Specimen', 'The problem', 'Foxtrot', 'A winter message', 'Radiola', 'Hawk's Nest Bay', 'Three geese', 'Queen's Birthday', 'Codicil', 'A small problem of closure', 'Some problems with Anzac' and 'The stain'
Folder 88
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Showering in winter', 'Unscheduled', 'Sixteeners : a journal', 'Colonial poet', 'Letter to Rhyll' and 'The double bus'
Folder 91
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Doctrines', 'Blues on the names', 'Burial in air', 'Last instructions', 'Goats and monkeys', 'The small cosmologist' and 'The novelist'
Folder 94
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'White meat', 'Pas de deux', 'Recess', 'Bathrooms' and 'Retrieval'
Folder 95
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Morning of the wreckers', 'GPs', 'Testament', 'Cretan landscape', 'Heraclitus', 'Swearing off with the help of Roget', 'The sad decline of Lennie Liver', 'Giving it up', 'Ode to a winecask', 'Gravity's end' and 'A dictionary of public figures'
Folder 98
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Supersnoop', 'The moderate', 'Poem of the eye', 'A short career in mathematics', 'Too young for Korea', 'Motel music' and 'Phonebooks / in out-of-town motels'
Folder 99
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Nine houses on a street', 'Cowra', 'The heir', 'Prowlers', 'Twenty years too long', 'Mowing song', 'Although : for John Tranter' and 'A small despair'
Folder 100
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'The tale of Tommy Tortoise', 'A strange day at the zoo', 'The moderate', 'The dream', 'Teacher', 'Poem in autumn', 'Playboys of 1938', 'Connections' ('Fledging'), 'Grand remonstrance', 'Monologue', 'Helios', 'Poem in autumn', 'Long service' and 'Mr Sticky'
Folder 101
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Pen and Ink : 1820' '(John MacArthur : a view for Keith Looby)', 'Upriver tableau', 'Freehold', 'Counterpoint', 'Monochrome' and 'Nordic'
Folder 102
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Quibble on a theme of Charles Baudelaire', 'The word wheelchair' and 'Thirty bad poems'
Folder 103
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Sections from a street' and 'Street sequence'
Folder 104
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'In Dante's hell', 'Louis Astronaut', 'Long service', 'GP', 'Stanzas for a Canberra winter', 'Clairvoyant in autumn', 'A rainy evening in spring', 'Mr Grizzle and Mr Grump', 'A strange day at the zoo', 'Louis Astronaut', 'Supersnoop', 'The tale of Tommy Tortoise', 'Walking in the rich man's garden', 'Continuity', 'Newsreel' and 'Flying over the Western Districts'
Folder 106
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'The poetry of six o'clock', 'Justice Blackburn sails With Cook', 'A manual' and 'Bandjalang' (a play)
Folder 107
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Bandjalang' (a play), 'Improvisations', 'Hampton Hawes', 'Twenty six lines for Bill Hart-Smith', 'The Clarence at Copmanhurst', 'My father's mirror', 'Dagg's bag', 'The parish map', 'The Tindale map' and 'Yuendumu door #7'
Folder 108
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'The world', 'Ad Astra', 'Retirement by the sea', 'Bad taste', 'The amateur' and 'Roots and branches' (retitled 'Stemmata')
Folder 109
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems ''Driving east towards Geelong', 'The forward ghosts', 'The city of curves', 'Seriously at last (1880-1980)', 'For Louis', 'Grit', 'Anthems', 'The motel muzak', 'Regles de jeu' and 'The recruit'
Folder 110
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'December weddings', 'The forester', 'Improvisations', 'Kelly', 'Powell', 'Hampton Hawes', 'Evans', 'Oscar Peterson', 'Monk', 'Jazz piano styles', 'Imperative voice, subjunctive mood' and 'Ignorant pleasures'
Folder 113
'Summer night/a ten months son', 'Seriously at last 1880-1980', 'Stemmata', 'Public library', 'Tanka', 'Off-season' and 'Footwork'
Folder 114
'Tinnitus', 'For N., my student', 'Part-time Shinto', 'The sibling', 'The offering', 'Headphones' and 'Two-bob-each-way encounters death'
Folder 115
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Memories of the living memories of the dead', 'The transcript', 'Tableau', 'Ballad', 'Dispatch', 'The Philosophical Remark, Epigram' and 'American sketches'
Folder 116
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'The train', 'Archetypes', 'Purl and plain', 'A Japanese polka', 'Jigsaw', 'How to believe', 'Exit', 'Handshake' and 'The view'
Folder 117
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Middle names', 'The veteran at 83', 'The problem', 'Anachronistic ballad', 'Two for my parents', 'Insistence on a point of grammar', 'Shortfalls' and 'The proverb'
Folder 121
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Smalltown drummer', 'Thelonious', 'The ballad of Oswald, the psychological rat', 'A vision of minor poets', 'Short poems. Rockmelons', 'Christ at Gallipoli', 'Back-road churches', 'Letter and dead uncle', 'Far end', 'The sky evolves', 'Zbigniew', 'Bowls', 'Come over here, boys. You're wanted', 'Small town memorials', 'End of the season', 'Slide show with in-laws to be', 'Hermetic couplets', 'Nikos Kazantzakis', 'After betrayal', 'In the cemeteries/of dying towns', 'The interview', 'Musique concrete', 'It is', 'Song of a tree and three horsemen', 'Suburban lumberjack', 'Two hours ten minutes back', 'Dawn service', 'Seppelts' mausoleum', 'Studies for three landscapes', 'Matthew 14:22-33', 'Fisherman and bird', 'Collection & dispersal', 'Trench dreams', 'Biography', 'Soiree' and 'Sunrise on the coast'
Folder 122
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Walking towards a Greek village', 'Dash' (short story), 'The cure', 'Taking a message', 'Piece without hands', 'Smalltown under glass', 'Meat', 'Dispersal', 'Outskirts', 'Beginnings', 'An afternoon like any other', 'Ideal couple', 'Lunar driving', 'Trench dreams', 'Eighty years out', 'Landscape at speed', 'Not yet', 'Outside Cowra', 'The river : north of the colony', 'Premeditations', 'Conscript landscape 1950's' and 'Resorts'
Folder 123
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Grafton', 'Sale day', 'Balance of trade', 'Not yet', 'Detail in a war museum', 'Ideal couple' and 'John MacArthur'
Folder 124
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Le douanier repondit', 'Charlie Parker with strings', 'Detail in a war museum', 'Aubade', 'Catacomb' and 'The television landscape, Canterbury Road'
Folder 125
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Catacomb', 'Aegina', 'Unsolved crime', 'Piano player', 'Fisherman and Bird' and 'Washing song'
Folder 126
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Seppelts' mausoleum', 'Bondi afternoon, 1915', 'Poem of a tree and three horseman', 'Transcendental', 'Woke up, turning' and 'Bert'
Folder 129
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Breakfast at Timbaki, Crete', 'Cathedral in Castile', 'Country nun', 'Two hours ten minutes back', 'Hall of the Victories : Versailles', 'Hora Sfakion', 'Vivaldi in Venice', 'All those crucifixions', 'But the baron', 'The stones of Epidavros', 'Arezzo noon', 'Daguerreotype tennis' and 'Coloratura'
Folder 130
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'But the baron', 'The Canberra cupola', 'Vivaldi in Venice', 'All those crucifixions', 'The stone of Epidauros' and 'Daguerreotype tennis'
Folder 131
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Vivaldi in Venice', 'Decade', 'Tiger's thought for the times', 'Death of a surrealist', 'It is', 'Slate roof morning', 'A litany for muzak', 'Fishermen and bird', 'Washing song', 'Seppelts' mausoleum', 'Nuns', 'Saturday afternoon', 'Musique concrete', 'Day in a life', 'The birds', 'Image and instant', 'From a new litany', 'The Bungendore salient', 'Driving/Canberra', 'Zbigniew', 'Bowls', 'A balance', 'After Voznesensky', 'The small town memorials', 'Strobe', 'Wine weekend', 'Flood', 'Back-road churches', 'Letter and dead uncle', 'The inspector', 'Saturday night', 'Come over here, boy. You're wanted', 'Winter forecast', 'Slide show with in-laws to be', 'Weekend', 'Bondi afternoon - 1915', 'Matthew 14:22-33', 'Bert', 'Transcendental', 'Muzak', 'A tree and three horsemen', 'Lumberjack', 'Piano player', 'The minuet at Jo's', 'Thredbo : summer', 'Preview' and 'Her house'
Folder 132
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'The photographs', 'Aubade', 'Guide to a Spanish Church', 'Poem (ending with a title)', 'Catacomb' and 'North of the Colony 1895'
Folder 133
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Aegina', 'Catacomb', 'Four angles on an island', 'Champagne relations', 'Outside Cowra', 'Apocalypse at Uriarra' and 'Emblem'
Folder 136
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Night train - Mainz to Munich', 'Conscript landscape - 1950's', 'For Winifred Amy', 'Inscription', 'Cordoba', 'Tensions', 'Epirus', 'Lisboa' and 'Ipirus Bus'
Folder 137
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Lunar 2', 'Wesleyan wedding', 'Tensions', 'Detail', 'Arezzo', 'Stellios', 'Country drums' and 'Coloratura'
Folder 138
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'An Army career in 8 easy stages', 'Letter (for a dead uncle)' and 'Premeditations'
Folder 139
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Arguments in stone', 'Mausoleum', 'Catacomb', 'Pompeii', 'La maladie des touristes', 'The cure' and manuscript draft of notes for filming a Spanish church
Folder 140
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'The consultation', 'We are drifting', 'Detail for a love poem', 'Break-up', 'The grey VW', 'Echidna', 'Learning', 'Night train - Mainz to Munich', 'Washing song', 'Inscription at Villers-Bretonneux', 'Cathedral in Castile', 'Bound' and eleven short poems
Folder 141
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Consultation', 'Strobe', 'I'll really have to go', 'The option', 'Phone Booth', 'Recognition', 'A summer interval', ', Statistics', 'Zbigniew', 'Twofold Bay' and 'South coast'
Folder 144
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Voices of 14/18', 'Recruiting poster', 'This wall' and manuscript draft notes
Folder 145
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Far end', 'Grandmother #2', 'The politics', 'The inspector', 'A second lesson' and 'Three landscapes'
Folder 146
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'A day in the life', 'Saturday afternoon', 'Lunar', 'Musique concrete', 'The birds', 'Thredbo : in summer' and 'Image and instant'
Folder 147
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Her house', 'After work', 'Piano player', 'Slide show with in-laws to be', 'Budswell', 'Zbigniew' and 'Script for a dream of the Tet Offensive'
Folder 148
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems Obsession of a Surrealist, 'A balance', 'Nuns', 'Suburban lumberjack', 'The abyss', 'Prospect' and 'Delphi, Mycenae, Knossos & elsewhere'
Folder 149
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Country nun', 'Lunar', 'Death of a Surrealist', 'In the cemeteries of dying towns', 'Inscription', 'Dransfield morning' and 'Sketches for a man in grey'
Folder 150
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Reveille', 'Three pieces in a key', 'Hermetic couplets' and 'End of contract'
Folder 151
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Airport', 'Three details', 'Some pre-credit shots for the great Australian movie', 'A balance', 'Bowls', 'Driving / Canberra', 'The small town memorials', 'Zbigniew' and annotated typescript drafts of short stories 'Herb', 'Dry run', 'Welcome teacher!', 'That'll be a shilling, Lady', 'A high class bird', 'First and last entry', 'From an armchair' and 'Finding out'
Folder 152
Annotated typescript drafts of poems 'The small town memorials', 'End of the season', 'Lines from stone', 'Booker Ervin', 'Canton photo : 1927', 'Bali : 1965', 'Random similes : on poems about poetry', 'Flush', '1945', 'That trio', 'Laboratory rat', 'Teacher in January', 'The death of Earth', 'Perspectives', 'Repetition', 'One life', 'Sign and a comment', 'Before the coup', 'Dumping bottles', 'Airport', 'Reprint', 'Questions', 'Whelan the wrecker', 'The women I love', 'Aftermath', 'Back-road churches', 'Western line', 'Streetlights', 'The green tractor', 'Wirraways, 1945', 'Treatment', 'The question', 'Hymn for holy wedlock', 'Words for electronic music', 'My uncle's TV', 'An old woman waiting', 'The scar', 'Pine tree', 'Among the nylon', 'God in a student winter', 'Wind fragment', 'To know this country', 'The teacher dances', 'Rain auction', 'The houses of poets', 'Soldier loses his sight' ('The field trial'), 'A hanging song', 'It's a grey sea', 'Delta village', 'Sign', 'Wedding rite', 'Carpe diem', 'Drive-in', 'Apology', 'Pictures of God's people', 'Country elections : 1951', 'The tangible plum', 'Dear Miss Dix', 'Wine-buying : Pokolbin', 'Legal problems', 'The bonus', 'Capetown love song', 'Problem for Dorothy', 'For WAL (b.1880'), 'The simple equation', 'Process', 'The safe judgement' and 'A cemetery/is sideways moving'
Folder 153
Annotated typescript drafts of poems 'The simple equation', 'Cool girls', 'Associate member : RSL', 'Old lady', 'The caroller', 'After the party', 'Pine tree', 'Jazz/poet', 'The question', 'For William Carlos Williams' ('Poet and pediatrician'), 'Bonus' ('The stunt'), 'After the killing', 'Words for Edgard Varese's 'Poems Electronique'', 'Wedding on the Hunter', 'At chapel, Sunday nights', 'Conrad in the saddlebag', 'Black tenor' ('Booker Ervin'), 'Thelonious', 'The green tractor', 'Sign,' 'Commercial gypsy', 'Branding', 'The ballad of Oswald, the psychological rat', 'Flush', 'Secular', 'Carpe diem', 'Decade', 'Laboratory rat', 'Love song : South Africa', 'Ago photo', 'Mountain sun', 'Verdict', 'Wedding rite', 'Words for electronic music', 'Grandfather's books', 'To know this country', 'Landscapes of war', 'Wind fragment', 'Streetlights', 'She slid the soft', 'Teacher in January', 'Spurious poem', 'First forms', 'Concert', 'Rain auction', 'Tiger's thoughts for the times', 'Airport' ('Airport road'), 'Random similes : on poems about poetry', 'Wirraways, 1945', 'Verdict', 'The disciplinarian', 'Poems about poetry are', 'Letter to my father after leaving the land', 'Back there' and 'The field trial'
Folder 154
Annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Poems about poetry are', 'Booker Ervin : black saxophonist', 'At the RSL', 'The process' ('Branding'), 'Perspectives', 'Footsteps in a room' ('After the killing'), 'The sky evolves', 'Variation on a cliche', 'Landscapes of war', 'A vision of minor poets', 'Wind fragment', 'The green tractor', 'Hymn for holy wedlock', 'Black music and white liberal', 'Treatment', 'Streetlights', 'The teacher dances', 'The death of earth', 'Around an eminent deathbed', 'Towards a definition', 'Pictures of God's people', 'Among the nylon', 'God in a student winter', 'Motto', 'Life', 'Men of God', 'Drummer's days', 'A hanging song', 'In preparation', 'Progress report', 'Conrad in the saddlebag', 'The town parade', 'It's a grey sea', 'Life is a train', 'Scene from a Russian film', 'Coastline', 'Fiance', 'An old slab hut seen before marriage', 'Brown horse', 'The chamber', 'Delta village', 'Fragments of the old man', 'Pokolbin', 'Spurious poem', 'Commercial gypsy', 'Pastoral' ('Back there') ('Evenings'), 'Rain auction', 'Ago photo', 'Associate member : RSL', 'Disciplinarian', 'Wedding rite', 'Secular', 'The houses of poets', 'Love song : South Africa', 'Concert', 'On running over a dog', 'A letter to my brother on his being conscripted', 'Three political haiku', 'Flush', 'Legal problems', 'Country elections : 1951', 'Drums', 'Dear Miss Dix', 'Problem for Dorothy', 'The tangible plum' and 'The simple equation'
Folder 155
Annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Some pre-credit shots for the great Australian movie', 'The Process' ('Branding'), 'For WAL (b.1880)', 'Wedding on the Hunter', 'She slid the soft', 'Wine-buying : Pokolbin', 'Death', 'After the killing' ('For a child murderer'), 'The taxi', 'Letter no. 1', 'Cool Girls', 'Drive-in', 'The Monday after', 'Breakdown', 'Wirraways, 1945', 'Drums', 'Road show', 'The simple equation', 'Decade', 'Freak accident', 'Words for Edgard Varese's poeme electronique', 'Lines from stone', 'Grandmother', 'Appointment' ('The scar'), 'Legal problems', 'In preparation', 'Repetition', 'Three political haiku', 'Streetlights', 'Definition', 'Letter to my father after leaving the land', 'The teacher dances', 'The houses of poets', 'Commercial gypsy', 'Reprint', 'Poems about poetry are', 'The question', '1945', 'Variation on a cliche', 'Secular', 'Questions', 'One life', 'God in a student winter', 'Sign', 'Before the coup', 'Black music and white liberal', 'The town parade', 'Scene from a Russian film', 'Problem for Dorothy', 'This could be the start of something' (short story), 'A parable' (short story), untitled short story and a manuscript draft and annotated typescript draft of poem 'Professional relations'
Folder 156
Annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Driving/Canberra', 'The sky evolves', 'Letter and dead uncle', 'Back-road churches', 'The inspector', 'Come over here, boys. You're wanted', 'Transcendental', 'Zbigniew', 'Smalltown drummer', 'End of the season', 'From toilet to critical dictum', 'Whelan the wrecker', 'Canton photo : 1927', 'Bali : 1965', 'Poems about poetry', 'Dawn service', 'Lines from stone', 'Grandmother', 'The taxi', 'Words for Edgard Varese's poeme electronique', 'A cemetery/is sideways moving', 'The safe judgement', 'Wedding rite', 'After the Killing', 'The stunt' ('The bonus'), 'Weapon sale' ('The field trials') ('News item'), 'Ago photo', 'From a window', 'For WAL (b.1880)', 'Process' ('Branding'), 'Booker Ervin', 'Capetown love song', 'For William Carlos Williams', 'After the party', 'The dirty mind', 'Jazz/Poet', 'The green tractor', 'Brown horse', 'A letter to my brother on his being conscripted', 'The death of Earth', 'Streetlights', 'Life', 'Among the nylon', 'First forms', 'Lines on an old theme', 'Flush', 'An old woman waiting', 'Words for electronic music', 'The houses of poets', 'Verdict', 'Laboratory rat', 'Decade', 'Love song : South Africa', 'At the RSL', 'To know this country', 'Wirraways, 1945', 'Mountain sun', 'Apology', 'Tiger's thought for the times', 'Rain auction', 'Spurious poem', 'Teacher in January', 'The simple equation', 'Tree-line', 'God in student winter', 'It's a grey sea', 'Wind fragment', 'Landscapes of war', 'Song of the blues collector', 'Treatment', 'Hymn for holy wedlock', 'Western line', 'Random similes on poems about poetry', 'Men of God' and notes entitled 'Plan of novel'
Folder 157
Annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Disciplinarian', 'Footsteps in a room', 'Sign and a comment', 'Ten years before birth', 'Life is a train', 'Dumping bottles', 'Branding : two views', 'Streetlights', 'Wirraways, 1945', 'Coastline', 'Delta village', 'Booker Ervin', 'The chamber', 'Progress report', 'Drummer's days', 'Motto', 'Fiance', 'Pictures of God's people' and 'Fete', includes annotated typewritten drafts of scripts for Books and Writing (ABC radio program), 1979-1980
Folder 158
Photocopy of 'A death on the Clarence', newspaper articles, a typescript draft re James Lionel Michael, a typescript draft and an annotated photocopy typescript draft of 'The life and death of James Lionel Michael : solicitor and poet', four photographs of correspondence from James Lionel Michael and an annotated typescript draft of 'Music and theatre policy 1986'
Folder 159
Manuscript drafts and annotated typewritten drafts of plays and poems re James Lionel Michael titled 'The life and death of James Lionel Michael : solicitor and poet', 'Poems from The life and death of James Lionel Michael', Production notes for 'The life and death of James Lionel Michael', 'James Lionel Michael : Poet and Solicitor, 1824-1868 : London, Sydney and Grafton', random notes, correspondence from the Clarence River Historical Society, and photocopies of articles, manuscript draft notes and a photocopy of 'Poet Kendall : his romantic history', 1926 re James Lionel Michael
Folder 160
Manuscript drafts and annotated typescript draft of 'James Lionel Michael : solicitor and poet : London, Sydney, Grafton' and photocopies of 'The Bawden Lectures : The first fifty years of settlement' and 'The Stenhouse circle' by Ann-Mari Jordens, MUP, 1979 re James Lionel Michael
Folder 161
Manuscript drafts and research notes re James Lionel Michael and research notes and photocopies of reviews for Shadows from wire: poems and photographs of Australians in the great war (1983)
Folder 162
Annotated typescript draft, research notes, newspaper clippings, photocopied newspaper reviews of Shadows from wire: poems and photographs of Australians in the great war (1983)
Folder 163
Typescript research notes of World War One poetry for and annotated typescript draft of Introduction to Shadows from wire: poems and photographs of Australians in the great war (1983)
Folder 169
Typescript drafts of 'The poet's tongue : a first hearing' and 'Australian poets in Europe : a radio anthology' (radio plays)
Folder 170
Manuscript, annotated typescript drafts and photocopies of poems in French and English for Century of clouds / selected poems from the French of Guillaume Apollinaire (1985) and correspondence from Wendy Coutts, 1977
Folder 171
Manuscript, annotated typescript drafts and photocopies of poems in French and English for Century of clouds / selected poems from the French of Guillaume Apollinaire (1985) and correspondence from Wendy Coutts, 1980
Folder 172
Annotated typescript drafts of poems for Century of clouds / selected poems from the French of Guillaume Apollinaire (1985)
Folder 173
Annotated typescript drafts of poems for Century of clouds / selected poems from the French of Guillaume Apollinaire (1985)
Folder 174
Correspondence from Wendy Coutts, 1980 and manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems for Century of clouds / selected poems from the French of Guillaume Apollinaire (1985)
Folder 175
Correspondence from Wendy Coutts, 1980 and manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems for Century of clouds / selected poems from the French of Guillaume Apollinaire (1985)
Folder 178
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poem, 1990-1997, 'Bandjalang' (a play)
Folder 179
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'Transparencies', 'Four for Henry Reynolds : 1. The relatives; 2. Gallery A; 3. A palimpsest; 4. The phrenologist', 'Not for the card', 'The junior class', 'Two kinds of ringing' (Bells), 'Pteropus',
Folder 180
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'After Flaubert', 'White beach', 'Discovering the seventh', 'The show must go on', 'Levels and divisions' (I was), 'Renaissance red', 'Thelonious monk', 'Colonial impromptu', 'The squatters' thesaurus' and 'Aboriginal violinist, 1930s'
Folder 181
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'On a film by Shang Yimou', 'Workers comp' ('Ballad of the compensations') ('A narrow ballad'), 'In brief', 'An augury', 'Unsolved crime', 'The metrical foot', 'ECG', 'After Mabo' ('Court report/June 3, 1992'), 'Sub judice', 'Human interest' and 'Human interest # 2'
Folder 182
Typescript draft of introduction to 'Canberra poems', and manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'The lonely phone', 'The lonely phone', 'Ideal couple', 'Detail in a war museum', 'Saturday night', 'An offertory', 'Poem in autumn', 'Track suit', 'The opening of Parliament House, 1927', 'December weddings', 'Luxuria', 'The moderate', 'The novelist', 'Clairvoyant in autumn', 'The city of curves', 'Busful of widows', 'October snow', 'Footage', 'Christ or Koran', 'Folk song : a fragment' ('This is Sergeant Reilly speaking'), 'Immovable feasts', 'The sword', 'A classic text' and 'The treaty'
Folder 183
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'A perfect day in mid-July', 'Nine lives', 'Footwork', 'Nothing she said', 'Nothing she said', 'Eight words', 'The lid', 'The gods', 'Political science', 'Collateral damage', 'Il gran rifiuto' and 'Quick and the dead'
Folder 186
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'Cattleman', 'The phrenologist', 'Ulcer', 'Cuisine', 'Colonial view', 'Decalogue in double voice', 'The extra panel', 'Cool girls', 'The story' and 'Reuben and Sarah'
Folder 187
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'Not a day', 'The funeral', 'Letter for Jane', 'Secular rites', 'The measure', 'Scrap', 'Crazed enamel', 'The job' and 'The pause'
Folder 188
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'Toolbillibam and Ogilvie', 'GPs', 'Cutting the tongue', 'Other voices', 'What is it in these folk museums?', 'J.B. Gribble, Missionary' and 'The treaty'
Folder 189
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'The motel muzak #2', 'Imperial blues', 'Five metaphysical pieces', 'The shorter course' and 'Footwork #2'
Folder 190
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'This is Sergeant Reilly speaking', 'Copmanhurst Longhand', 'For my father, three years later', 'Poets are always', 'Grey days' and 'Kokoda corrective'
Folder 191
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'Below the belt', 'The morgue', 'The story', 'Style' and 'The circuits'
Folder 194
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'The circuits', 'Hazel de Berg', 'The film', 'A little self-congratulation', ''Here's the money, Terry'', 'First girl', 'Six addictions', 'Timor mortis', 'Newsagent' and 'Playing for dancers'
Folder 195
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'Starlings', 'Severance', 'The wave', 'Note to Philip', 'The secret', 'The gift' and 'Two signatures'
Folder 196
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'The fundamentalists in heaven', 'Pasternak and David Lean : Maurice Jarre and Stalin', 'Two crows', 'The altar', 'Pots', 'At the polls', 'The island', 'The shovel', 'The audience', 'Bildungsroman', 'Home by Christmas', 'Tanks' and 'That other country'
Folder 197
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'The Paris end of '62', 'The view', 'The distances', 'Brindabellas', 'Roofs and rain', 'The boxes' and 'The auditor'
Folder 198
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'Double tanka', 'The force', 'Agnostic hymn', 'New Zealand journal', 'Cutting : Wellington', 'Highway 1, Waikato', 'Antipodean', 'History : Waikato', 'Hygiene', 'Sound and light', 'The national imagination' and 'The continent'
Folder 199
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, '68', 'The double doubt', 'Emigres', 'White knights', 'South', 'Deathday' and 'The weight'
Folder 202
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'The re-enactment', 'Southwest', 'First day', 'Evening on western shore', 'The western edge', 'Therapy' and 'Is this the end'
Folder 203
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'Heirloom', 'On root : a jaundiced journal', 'A light dry rime for Alec Hope', 'Cutting the tongue', 'Colonial impromptu', 'The signs', 'Nullarbor', 'Inventory', 'The roof blues', 'The swallow's wing', 'Le mot juste', 'Not a day' and 'The secular rites'
Folder 204
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'Ward M', 'Four epigrams : 1. A note to martial; 2. Discipline of the open reading; 3. Proving the point; 4. Philip Larkin at the jazz', 'Ashes', 'The centre', 'The will', 'The phone', 'The noun', 'Q & A', 'Thank you, Charles', 'Off-season', 'Quatrains for a happy man', 'The seamstress' and 'Is this the end'
Folder 205
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'Tanka', 'Tankas', 'Freeway', 'Bird with strings', 'The quill' and 'Magpie and philosopher'
Folder 206
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'Champagne relations', 'The label', 'The cure', 'In Dante's hell', 'The Bungendore jazz', 'Quibble on a theme of Charles Baudelaire', 'A lite dry rime for A. D. Hope', 'On the beach', 'The truth in advertising act' ('The label'), 'Off-season', 'Passport', 'Single socks', 'Reading Rover Thomas', 'Tree-line', 'From Mengler Hill', 'A walk in Gaungzhou', 'That other country', 'Lipstick', 'In the gunshop', 'The virtuoso', 'German for love' and Geoff Page's suggestion for AWM unknown soldier memorial, untitled
Folder 207
Manuscript drafts and typescript drafts and photocopies of research material and typescript drafts of prose 'A mislaid tape' and 'Parable of the stolen field'
Folder 210
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'Below the belt', 'Consolations of summer', 'Gallery A', 'A palimpsest', 'Breast plates', 'Four for Henry Reynolds: 1. The relatives; 2. Gallery A; 3. A palimpsest; 4. The phrenologist', 'Five for Henry Reynolds : 1. The phrenologist; 2. A letter; 3. By the same mail; 4. Breast plates; 5. The relatives', 'By the left' and 'Secret-sacred men's ceremonies at the site of Tjikari 1990'
Folder 211
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of published poems, 1990-1997, 'The parallels', 'Taking down the bronzes' and typescript drafts of The great forgetting (1996)
Folder 226
Juvenilia: manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems, 1960-1965, 'All those crucifixions', 'A light dry rime for A.D. Hope', 'The minuet at Jo's', 'Tract on muzak', 'It is', 'Continuity', 'Exile and the city', 'The ballad of Oswald, the psychological rat', 'Death' and 'Teaching the Chinese revolution'
Folder 227
Juvenilia: manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems, 1960-1965, 'Black tenor', 'The bus to Nafpaktos', 'Poem in autumn', 'Poem in autumn', 'GP' also titled 'GPs', 'The tenor', 'Trespass', 'Colonial', 'Transcript', 'Thirty bad poems : Triginta toto mala sunt epigrammata libro', 'A short career in mathematics', 'Bus full of widows', 'Crete', 'Product', 'Song for a central committee', 'Ode to a winecask', 'The label', 'On certain magazines', 'Speech', 'Japanese war graves', 'Odours are a code', 'Burial in the air', 'Summer night / a ten-month son', 'Aubade' and 'Farming koalas : a national resource'
Folder 228
Juvenilia: manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems, 1960-1965, 'Across a room', 'The Japanese tract', 'At 95', 'A strange little story', 'For Zbigniew Herbert', 'End of contract', 'But the baron', 'Night train - Mainz to Munich', 'Cathedral in Castile', 'Delphi, Mycenae, Knossos and elsewhere', 'Echidna', 'Aegina', 'Timbaki breakfast : Crete', 'In houses thin', 'Smalltown under glass', 'Ice-cream girl in Elsinore' and 'Arguments from stone' and prose, 'Lapine studies', 'The fall', 'That'll be a shilling, lady' and 'Welcome teacher'
Folder 265
Manuscript drafts and annotated typescript drafts of short stories 'The crossing', 'The longboat' and 'Hargrave's horse' published in Invisible histories (1990)
Folder 266
Manuscript drafts and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'Anachronistic ballad', 'Sixpence' and short stories 'Smoko', 'Obituary' and 'The Americans are leaving' published in Invisible histories (1990)
Folder 267
Manuscript drafts, annotated typescript drafts and photocopies of publications for research of short story 'Billyjim and Colonel Campbell' published in Invisible histories (1990)
Folder 268
Manuscript drafts and annotated typescript drafts of short story 'A day in late October, 1962', published in Invisible histories (1990), typescript article on the Federal Parliament House Flagmast and photocopy of article 'Poetry of the Pacific region'
Folder 269
Manuscript drafts and annotated typescript drafts of short story 'The out tapes, 1960' [thought to have been prepared for Invisible histories (1990)]
Folder 283
Inward correspondence, September 1991 - December 1991, includes correspondence from publishers, literary editors, Les Murray, Kevin Hart and Margaret Bradstock
Folder 291
Inward correspondence October 1993 - December 1993, includes correspondence from publishers, literary editors, Les Murray, Kevin Hart, Tom Thompson, Marion Halligan, John Tranter, Anthony Lawrence, Rhyll McMaster and Judith Wright
Folder 306-307
Inward correspondence October 1996 - December 1996, includes correspondence from publishers, literary editors, Judith Wright, Les Murray, Janet Shaw and Heather Cam
Folder 308-310
Inward correspondence, January 1997 - July 1997, includes correspondence from publishers, literary editors, Les Murray, Rhyll McMaster and Rosemary Dobson
Folder 342
Photographs of Geoff Page and five photographs of World War I purchased from the Australian War Memorial - AV
Folder 343
Outwards correspondence January 1998 – December 2001.
Folder 344
Outwards correspondence: January 2002 – June 2004.
Folder 345
Inwards correspondence: 1997
Folder 346
Inwards correspondence: 1998
Folder 347
Inwards correspondence: 1999
Folder 348
Inwards correspondence: 2000
Folder 349
Inwards correspondence: 2001
Folder 350
Inwards correspondence: 2002
Folder 351
Inwards correspondence: 2003
Folder 352
Inwards correspondence: 2004; One letter 2006
Folder 353
Manuscript draft Freehold
Folder 354
Early typescript drafts Freehold
Folder 355
Annotated typescript draft Freehold [River Titles]
Folder 356
Typescript draft Darker and Lighter
Folder 357
Typescript draft Darker and Lighter
Folder 358
Typescript draft The Sell-Up (Selling Up)
Folder 359
Typescript drafts Collateral Damage
Folder 360
Typescript draft Collateral Damage
Folder 361
Typescript draft Cartes Postales; Annotated typescript draft #2 Cartes Postales
Folder 362
Typescript: Coaldale A Play in Verse for Two Voices (Final Version)
Folder 363
The Scarring First Draft
Folder 364
The Scarring 2nd Draft
Folder 365
The Scarring 3rd Draft
Folder 366
The Scarring Early version
Folder 367
The Scarring draft
Folder 368
The Scarring draft
Folder 369
The Scarring draft penultimate
Folder 370
The Scarring radio version
Folder 371
Sally Rivers’ All Girl Band (Later Drumming on Water) Prose Version 1990-1993.
Folder 372
Sally Rivers’ All Girl Band: annotated typescript draft
Folder 373
Sally Rivers’ All Girl Band: typescript draft
Folder 374
Sally Rivers’ All Girl Band: typescript draft
Folder 375
Annotatedtypescript draft untitled
Folder 376
Drumming on Water: typescript draft
Folder 377
Drumming on Water: typescript draft
Folder 378
Drumming on Water: typescript draft
Folder 379
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems: 1997 – June 2004
Folder 380
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems: 1997 – June 2004
Folder 381
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems: 1997 – June 2004
Folder 382
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems: 1997 – June 2004
Folder 383
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems: 1997 – June 2004
Folder 384
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems: 1997 – June 2004
Folder 385
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems: 1997 – June 2004
Folder 386
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems: 1997 – June 2004
Folder 387
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems: 1997 – June 2004
Folder 388
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of poems: 1997 – June 2004
Folder 389
Reviews and essays; Premier's Poetry Award 1990 [certificate signed by Wayne Goss, Premier for Queensland]; Membership of Copyright Agency Limited.