Guide to the Papers of Rhyll McMaster

Australian Poets on Tape - includes material of Rhyll McMaster on side 1. (cassette) (Item 1) - Box 4

Ruth Cracknell and Ron Hadrick read Australian verse - McMaster material included. (cassette) (Item 2) - Box 4

ABC broadcast 8 February 1987 of poems of Rhyll McMaster and John A. Scott. (cassette) (Item 3) - Box 4

Queensland School Reader, Class 6B, 1956. Inscribed by Rhyll McMaster (Item 4) - Box 4

Notebooks, 1981 - 1992. Three exercise books, two blue covered folders, 2 ring-bound folders (Item 5) - Box 4

Material includes accounting for the day to day running of the farm owned by Rhyll McMaster and Roger McDonald at Braidwood, as well as McMaster's notes on her management of the farm. Images from this farm are used in her poems, particularly in On My Empty Feet, (1993).

Four school magazines - Somerville House, Brisbane, 1963-65 and 1968 (Item 6) - Box 5

Includes poems and stories by McMaster, including the poems, 'The Leopard Tree and Green Tea', published by the Bulletin while she was still at school, and her winning contribution 'Today It Rains' in the 1965 Annual Lyric Contest, judged by Judith Wright. 1968 issue contains wedding photo of Rhyll McMaster.

The Bulletin (Item 7) - Box 5

1965, June 26; page 52, poem

1965, Dec. 18; page 55, poem

1965, Dec. 25; page 35, poem

1965, June 12; page 57, poem

1966, Dec. 10; page 59, poem

1967, Jan. 21; page 30, poem

1970, Nov. 28; page 63, article

1972, July 1; page 47, book review

1980, Jan. 29; Poem

1980, July 22; Poem

1982, Dec. 21; page 239, short story

1993, Feb. 2; article about McMaster

Quadrant (Item 8) - Box 6

1975, June; Poem

1975, July; Poem

Westerly (Item 9) - Box 6

1968, July; Poem

The Critical Survey, University of Hull, UK (Item 10) - Box 6

1968, shared first prize in poetry competition; Poems

The Fiction Magazine, UK (Item 11) - Box 6

1983, Spring; Poem

Yugoslavian Literary Magazine (Item 12) - Box 6

1987; Poem

File of poems published in newspapers (Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, 1980, 1982, 1983) (Item 13) - Box 6

Literature Board correspondence - 1973 application, letters, forms, etc (Item 14) - Box 6

Short stories and correspondence, including many early drafts of published poems and correspondence with literary editors (Item 15) - Box 6

Folder containing artwork, Judith Rodriguez lino-cuts, 1975 copies of poem Back Steps Lookout, illustrated by Jahna Knyvett, for Canberra Broadsheet, 28 October 1977 (Item 16) - Box 6

Self-published booklet, Light, 1991, and documents relating to National Book Council tour of Queensland, 1991 (Item 17) - Box 6

Various prose pieces, handwritten and typed, during 1980s, also contains poems (Item 18) - Box 7

Newspaper articles, reviews, book launch (with photo), plus use of poem 'Profiles of my father' in Higher School Certificate, 1986 (Item 19) - Box 7

Children's stories with early and handwritten drafts (Item 20) - Box 7

Clipped set of letters to McMaster while sick in hospital, 1989. Letters and cards including correspondence from Robyn Lucas, Geoffrey Dutton, Susan Geason, Olive Cotton (photos used as cards), Les Murray, Sally McInerney (closed until June 2025), Jill Bridgewood (High School English teacher) and Catherine Morhan (painter). Also includes photos of McMaster by Sally McInerney (Item 21) - Box 7

*Note - some of the letters in this folder are very personal and pertinent to collection of poetry On My Empty Feet.

Recent publications in magazines including Bulletin, September 8 1992 (poem), Voices, 1992 (poem and book review), Poetry Magazine, September 1992 (series of nine poems), Island Magazine, Summer 1992 (poem) and Quadrant, January 1993 (two poems) (Item 22) - Box 7

Editorial correspondence, 1987 - 1993, including letters and notes from other Australian poets such as John Tranter, Tom Shapcott and Clem Semmler (Item 23) - Box 8

On My Empty Feet - the radio play, to be broadcast 1993. Early drafts including handwritten amendments to text. Also correspondence related to play (Item 24) - Box 8

On My Empty Feet - the poetry collection, published by William Heinemann, 1993 (Item 25) - Box 8

Complete file of all poems, handwritten and typed, with annotations and notes from first drafts through to final drafts.

Lyrics and songs. Rough drafts, handwritten and typed, 1992, and article in old school newspaper regarding schoolfriend who has become a drummer (Item 26) - Box 8