Papers of Michael Dransfield, 1966-1972 [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 537836
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Dransfield, Michael, 1948-1973
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Available for research. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [1966-1972]
- 1.02 m. (4 archives boxes) + 2 boxes.
- Summary:
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Michael Dransfield's papers comprise drafts of poems, including a collection titled "Memoirs of a velvet urinal", letters from publishers, friends and his parents, and notebooks and diaries. One volume is titled "The cocklebiddy fisherman". Correspondents include Richard Hopkinson, Thomas Shapcott, Mirka Mora, Robert Adamson, Charles Buckmaster, Rolf Hennequel, Alexander Craig, John Tranter, Peter Kocan and Rodney Hall. The collection also includes 13 letters and a poem written by Dransfield to Paula Keogh between October and December 1972 (2 boxes).
MS Acc18.042 comprises drafts of poems, correspondence, journals, newspaper clippings and related papers. There is business correspondence regarding Dransfield's poetry, and personal correspondence including letters from Peter Kocan during his time in hospital. The draft material includes poetry prepared for QUP after Dransfield's death (4 boxes).
- Biography/History:
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Poet. Michael Dransfield was born in Camperdown, Sydney in September 1948, and educated at Sydney Grammar School. After some time studying at Sydney University and working as a journalist and at the Sydney Taxation Office, he took up writing poetry full-time. Dransfield moved frequently during his late teens and early 20s. In Sydney he lived in Balmain, Paddington, Darlinghurst, Edgecliff, Pymble and Woolloomooloo. He travelled through Tasmania and other country areas, lived for a time in Casino, Cobargo, Candelo, Caloola, Canberra and Hall, and bought rural properties, including in Wapengo and in Woodford. He was interested in themes of country and rural idyll, and created his own mythological estate "Courland Penders". His poems were published in journals such as The Sydneian, Poetry Australia, Wormwood review, The Catholic weekly, Meanjin, Transit, Free poetry, Our glass, The great auk, Flagstones and Uphill, as well as in The Australian, The Canberra times and The observer. During his lifetime, Dransfield's publications included Streets of the long voyage (1970), Drug poems (1972), and The inspector of tides (1972). Dransfield died at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Sydney in April 1973. Memoirs of a velvet urinal (1975), Voyage into solitude (1978), The second month of spring (1980), and Michael Dransfield: collected poems (1987) were published posthumously.
- Notes:
- Manuscript reference no.: MS 4741, MS Acc18.042.
- Cited In:
- Guide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia ; C813.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Finding aid available in the Special Collections Reading Room and on the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms4741
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1966-1972
- Occupation:
- Poets
- Other authors/contributors:
- Kocan, Peter, 1947-
- Terms of Use:
- Copying of Michael Dransfield's copyright material is permitted for research purposes.
- Copyright:
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Copyright Undetermined
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
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