Guide to the Papers of Diane Fahey
MS 9001
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Diane Fahey
- Title
- Papers of Diane Fahey
- Date Range
- 1986-1993
- Collection Number
- MS 9001
- Extent
- 0.28 metres (2 boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- NLA
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises typescripts with annotations, revised manuscripts, corrected proofs, final proofs, and blueprints of four of Diane Fahey's published collections. They are Voices from the honeycomb (1986), Metamorphoses (1988), Turning the hourglass (1990) and Mayflies in amber (1993). The manuscripts are all in typescript form and there is often little variation from the published text.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1172328).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Diane Fahey, National Library of Australia, MS 9001, [file number]'.
Provenance
The papers were purchased by the Library in March 1993.
Biographical Note
The poet Diane Fahey was born in 1945 and educated in Melbourne. After spending a number of years overseas she returned to live in South Australia in 1986. Her poetry has been published in both Australian and overseas literary journals and anthologies, and Australian newspapers. Five collections of her works have been published.
She has been the recipient of several awards and prizes. They include the Mattara Poetry Prize (1985), the Caltex Bendigo Advertiser Manuscript Award (1986), the Wesley Michael Wright Prize (1987), the John Shaw Neilson Poetry Prize (1988), and a South Australian Department of Arts Grant (1991).
Item Descriptions
Voices from the honeycomb (Milton, Qld: Jacaranda, 1986) (File 1) - Box 1
Typescript and photocopy. Poems occasionally signed. There is textual variation from the published work in some poems, notably in the 'Snapshots of a city' section.
Metamorphoses (Sydney: Dangaroo Press, c1988) (File 3) - Box 1
Typescript and photocopy typescript. No textual variation from published work, excepting that 'Notes and illustrations' section is worked and annotated, and poem 'Syrinx' is missing.
Turning the hourglass (Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1990) (File 6-7) - Box 1
Incomplete typescript (some photocopy). Text mostly as published except that 'Sower' has some handwritten annotations and the order of two sections varies from the published version. Two poems are signed.