Guide to the Papers of Judith Rodriguez

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MS 9295

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Collection Summary

Creator
Judith Rodriguez
Title
Papers of Judith Rodriguez
Date Range
1988-1997
Collection Number
MS 9295
Extent
2.82 metres (13 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
National Library of AUstralia

Introduction

Scope and Contents

The papers are a record of Rodriguez's editorship of the Penguin Poetry Series, 1989-97, and Australian poetry in general over that period. The correspondence is with contributors to the Series and with potential contributors, editorial staff, and with the head of Penguin, Bob Sessions, on the closure of the Series.

Also included are rejection letters with reports, prose manuscripts, reviews, and working files on the Series, which include progress lists and publishers' lists, sales figures and invoices.

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2199725).

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Judith Rodriguez, National Library of Australia, MS 9295, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The papers were donated to the Library by Ms Judith Rodriguez in 1998 under the Cultural Gifts Program.

Biographical Note

Judith Rodriguez , who began writing poetry at the age of 15, was born in Perth in 1936. She studied at the University of Queensland and later lectured there, and at La Trobe University. Since 1974 her work has become widely known to readers of Australian poetry. Her published works include Nu-plastik fanfare red (1973), Water life (1976), Shadow on glass (1978), Mudcrab at Gambaro's (1980), Witch heart (1982), Mrs Noah and the Minoan queen (1983), Floridean poems (1986), and The cold (1992).

Rodriguez was invited to initiate the Penguin Books Australia Australian Poetry Series, and was consulting editor from 1989 to its closure in 1997.

The large amount of correspondence is in several sections. In the main alphabetical sequence (Files 1-53) the writers have individual files, which often contain manuscript or copied verse. In the second alphabetical sequence (Files 54-65), the correspondence is mainly with potential contributors to the Penguin Poetry Series. The two files of editorial correspondence (Files 66-67) include the decision to end the Series and the termination of Rodriguez's contract with Penguin. Files titled 'acceptances', 'anthologies' and 'prose mss', a miscellaneous file containing Rodriguez's comments on brief manuscripts, complete the record of the Poetry Series (Files 68-70).

In the working files of the Poetry Series (Files 71-74), there is a draft contract with Penguin, invoices, progress lists of the Series, publishers' lists and notes, and reviews.

In addition there is a prose manuscript 'The monkey's mask' by Dorothy Porter, which was not accepted for publication, an unidentified manuscript, and three manuscripts of Martin R. Johnson's poems (Files 75-77).

Item Descriptions

Chris Andrews, John Ashton, Timoshenko Aslanides (File 1) - Box 1

Catherine Bateson, Eric Beach, John Bennett (File 2) - Box 1

Stephanie Bennett, Ken Bolton (File 3) - Box 1

Boolidt Boolidtba, Jenny Boult (File 4) - Box 1

Caroline Caddy (File 5) - Box 2

Anna Cameron (File 6) - Box 2

Lee Cataldi (File 7) - Box 2

Alison Clark (File 8) - Box 2

Tim Collins (File 9) - Box 2

Alison Croggon (File 10) - Box 2

David Curzon (File 11) - Box 3

Sarah Day (File 12) - Box 3

Philip Hammial (File 13) - Box 3

Gillian Hanscombe, Jan Harry, Susan Hawthorne (File 14) - Box 3

Kristen Henry, Julie Hunt (File 15) - Box 3

Barry Hill (File 16) - Box 3

Coral Hull (File 17) - Box 4

Subhash Jaireth (File 18) - Box 4

Kathielyn Job (File 19) - Box 4

Martin R Johnson (File 20) - Box 4

Beata Josephi (File 21) - Box 4

Cath Kenneally (File 22) - Box 5

Andrew Leggett (File 23) - Box 5

Emma Lew (File 24) - Box 5

Myron Lysenko (File 25) - Box 5

Jennifer Maiden (File 26) - Box 6

Chris Mansell (File 27) - Box 6

Sue Moss (File 28) - Box 6

Stephen Oliver (File 29) - Box 6

Irma Pana (File 30) - Box 6

Fiona Perry (File 31) - Box 6

Dorothy Porter (File 32) - Box 6

Tom Petsinis (File 33) - Box 6

David Reiter (File 34) - Box 7

Angela Rockel (File 35) - Box 7

David Rowbotham (File 36) - Box 7

Tracy Ryan (File 37) - Box 7

Philip Salom (File 38) - Box 7

Michael Sariban (File 39) - Box 7

Kerry Scuffins (File 40) - Box 7

Craig Sherborne (File 41) - Box 7

Andrea Sherwood (File 42) - Box 8

Ron Simpson (File 43) - Box 8

Maurice Strandgard (File 44) - Box 8

Meredith Wattison (File 45) - Box 8

Alan Wearne (File 46) - Box 8

Graeme Webster (File 47) - Box 8

Terry Whitebeach (File 48) - Box 8

Lauren Williams (File 49) - Box 8

Gloria Yates (File 50) - Box 8

Christmas anthology (File 51) - Box 8

Ouyang Yu (File 52) - Box 8

Unidentified manuscripts (File 53) - Box 8

A-B (File 54) - Box 9

B (File 55) - Box 9

C (File 56) - Box 9

D-E (File 57) - Box 9

F-G (File 58) - Box 9

H-J (File 59) - Box 9

K-Me (File 60) - Box 10

Mi-O (File 61) - Box 10

P-R (File 62) - Box 10

S (File 63) - Box 10

T (File 64) - Box 10

U-Z (File 65) - Box 10

Correspondence with editorial staff, 1989-97 (File 66-67) - Box 11

Correspondence file on acceptances, 1997 (File 68) - Box 11

Correspondence file with queries on anthologies, 1989-96 (File 69) - Box 11

Correspondence file on prose manuscripts, 1995-97 (File 70) - Box 11

Draft book contract with Penguin; information on Penguin Books (File 68) - Box 12

Poetry series lists and sales, 1990-97 (File 69) - Box 12

Reviews, 1990-96 (File 70) - Box 12

Invoices, 1989-97 (File 71) - Box 12

'The Monkey's mask' - Dorothy Porter (File 68) - Box 13

'Memoirs of a drunken sailor' - Martin Johnson (File 76) - Box 13

'The couch by the side of the road' Martin Johnson (File 76) - Box 13

Unidentified manuscript (File 77) - Box 13


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