Papers of John Kinsella, 1976-2017 [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 2724851
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Kinsella, John, 1963-
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Part available for research; part permission required for research until 2041; part permission required for research until 2047; part not available for research until 2061. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [1976-2017]
- 5.89 m. (27 boxes) + 1 medium folio box + 2 map folios + 1 phase box.
- Summary:
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The collection includes correspondence, personal papers, drafts of poems, art work associated with his published volume Night parrots, and poems submitted to the literary journal Salt. Correspondents include family and friends, including Robert Adamson, Dorothy Porter, Peter Porter, Fay Zwicky, Randolph Stow, Alex Miller, Alison Croggin, Sarah Day, Galway Kinnell, Les Murray and David Brooks, and literary and magazine editors.The collection also comprises journals, interviews with and by Kinsella, material relating to professional teaching, poetry readings and lectures, photographs and printed material.The drafts are of poems for his published volumes, including The frozen sea (1983), The book of two faces (1989), Night parrots (1989), Eschatologies (1991), Syzygy (1993), and Full fathom five (1993), and for contributions to literary journals and magazines.
- Biography/History:
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John Kinsella has written and edited more than thirty books whose many prizes and awards include The Grace Leven Poetry Prize, the John Bray Award for Poetry from The Adelaide Festival, The Age Poetry Book of The Year Award, The Western Australian Premier's Prize for Poetry (twice), a Young Australian Creative Fellowship from the former Prime Minister of Australia, Paul Keating, and senior Fellowships from the Literature Board of The Australia Council. His Poems 1980 - 1994 and volume of poetry The Hunt (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation) were published in May 1998 by Bloodaxe in the UK and USA, and Visitants (Bloodaxe, 1999) has recently been released. He is the editor of the international literary journal Salt, a Consultant Editor to Westerly (CSAL, University of Western Australia), Cambridge correspondent for Overland (Melbourne, Australia), co-editor of the British literary journal Stand, and International Editor of the American journal The Kenyon Review. John Kinsella was made a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1997, and has been appointed the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College (USA) for 2001. He is also an Adjunct Professor of English at Edith Cowan University, Perth.
- Notes:
- Manuscript reference no. : MS 8241.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Finding aid available online.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1976-2017
- Occupation:
- Poets
- Terms of Use:
- Copying of rights holder’s copyright material is permitted for research purposes, except for Files 26-31 (for which permission is required until 2047) and Files 95-97, 98-100, 150 and 209 (for which permission is required until 2041). Copying of rights holder’s copyright material is not permitted for research purposes for File 117 and File 136 (closed until 2061).
- Copyright:
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Copyright Undetermined
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
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