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MS 8241

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: April 2024

Collection Summary

Creator
Kinsella, John
Title
Papers of John Kinsella
Date Range
1976-2022
Collection Number
MS 8241
Extent
8.47 metres (41 ms boxes + 1 medium folio box + 1 small folio box + 2 map folios + 1 phase box + 1 folder + 1 digital carrier)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Sponsor
This finding aid was revised and published with the assistance of the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust.

Introduction

Scope and Content

Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised the this collection may contain names, descriptions and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally be sensitive.

This collection comprises correspondence, personal papers, journals, drafts of poems, art work associated with Kinsella's published volume Night parrots, and poems submitted to the literary journal Salt.

Within Kinsella's handwritten journals are the original 'drawing poems' with some appearing in his associated published Saussure's Kaleidoscope: Graphology Drawing Poems(2021). Other published works include a CD Resource cd 22 produced by writingWA, Brimstone: a book of villanelles, Dislocations: The Innovative poems of Paul Muldoon, Musical Dante, and Hotel Impossible.

Correspondents of family and friends, include 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), Full fathom five (1993), False Claims of Colonial Thieves (2018), and Drowning in wheat (2004), and for contributions to literary journals and magazines.

Material includes proofs and other written works by Charmaine Papertalk Green, Kwame Dawes, Kate Jarman. There are two artworks by Karl Wiebke gifted to John Kinsella, for launching Wiebke's exhibition.

Conditions Governing Access

Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2724851).

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 John Kinsella, National Library of Australia, MS 8241, [series/file number]'.

Provenance

The papers were purchased from John Kinsella by the Library in 1990, 1992, 1993 and 2018.

Finding Aid Source (s)

Please note: This finding aid may comprise or contain descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.

Biographical Note

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.

Item Descriptions

Class 1. Original Consignment received 1990, 1980-1989

This consignment comprises correspondence, diaries and drafts of works including Night Parrots, The frozen Sea, The Book of Two faces, Lasseter and Nebuchadnezzar.

Series 1. Notebooks, drafts, 1980-89

These papers are part of a consignment received on 31 March 1990.

Undated notebooks (File 1) - Box 1 (MS 8241)

Includes drafts of prose and poetry.

Notebooks, 1980-82, and draft correspondence (File 2) - Box 1 (MS 8241)

Includes drafts of short stories, poetry and a play The chimney sweep, and drafts of letters to Artlook and Fiona Newman.

Notebooks containing drafts of poems, 1983, 1985 (File 3) - Box 1 (MS 8241)
Notebooks, 1985-86, and drafts of prose and poetry (File 4) - Box 1 (MS 8241)

Some notebooks were written during John Kinsella's trip to Asia.

Notebooks, 1987 (File 5) - Box 1 (MS 8241)

The notebooks contain drafts of poems.

Notebooks and correspondence, 1987-89 (File 6) - Box 1 (MS 8241)

Notebooks include drafts of poems, essays and reviews of poets.

Notebooks, 1987-89 (File 7) - Box 1 (MS 8241)

Notebooks contain drafts of poems, some related to Night Parrots.

Notebook, c.1988 (File 8) - Box 1 (MS 8241)

Notebook contains drafts of poems.

Undated notebook (File 9) - Box 2 (MS 8241)

Notebook contains lecture notes, and drafts of poems.

Undated notebook (File 10) - Box 2 (MS 8241)

Notebook contain lecture notes, some drafts of poems including early drafts of Nebuchadnezzar and Lasseter.

Undated notebook (File 11) - Box 2 (MS 8241)

Notebook contains lecture notes, some drafts of poems including Lasseter.

Drafts of short stories and a play (File 12) - Box 2 (MS 8241)

The drafts are typed and handwritten; the play is entitled The chimney sweep.

Drafts and pictorial material for The Book of Two Faces (File 13) - Box 2 (MS 8241)

The drafts are mostly typed; includes photographs of John Kinsella.

The Frozen Sea (File 14) - Box 2 (MS 8241)

Typed drafts and published copy.

Handwritten drafts of poems (File 15) - Box 2 (MS 8241)

Some drafts are related to Night Parrots.

Typed drafts of poems (File 16) - Box 2 (MS 8241)

Some drafts are related to Night Parrots.

Night Parrots (File 17) - Box 3 (MS 8241)

Mostly handwritten drafts and other material related to Night Parrots.

The dance movement of bees (File 18) - Box 3 (MS 8241)

Handwritten and typed drafts of poems for this section of Night Parrots.

Lasseter and Nebuchadnezzar drafts (File 19) - Box 3 (MS 8241)

Handwritten drafts of these poems for Night Parrots.

Lasseter and Nebuchadnezzar drafts (File 20) - Box 3 (MS 8241)

Typed and corrected drafts of poems for Night Parrots.

Night Parrots (File 21) - Box 3 (MS 8241)

Material related to the writing of Night Parrots, including 3 photographs of John Kinsella's great grandfather at the mines.

Typed drafts of Night Parrots (File 22) - Box 3 (MS 8241)
Later typed drafts of Night Parrots (File 23) - Box 3 (MS 8241)

Typed and corrected drafts of poems for Night Parrots.

Material related to Night Parrots (File 24) - Box 3 (MS 8241)

Notes on arrangement of poems in Night Parrots; draft of letter to Wendy Jenkins; proof photos of John Kinsella; invitation to launch of Night Parrots and programme of poetry readings.

Correspondence (File 25) - Box 3 (MS 8241)

Correspondence with Fiona Newman, mostly regarding poetry and poets; letters to editors of literary journals including letters to David Brooks.

Diaries written while travelling in Asia (File 26) - Box 4 (MS 8241)
Diary, August-October 1983 (File 27) - Box 4 (MS 8241)
Letter from Craig Loney (File 28) - Box 4 (MS 8241)
Drafts of experimental prose (File 29_31) - Box 4 (MS 8241)

Drafts include Morpheus: the paradigm.

Artwork associated with Night Parrots (File) - Box 10 (MS 8241)
Artwork associated with Night Parrots (File 77_78) - Map-Folio 11 (MS 8241)
Artwork associated with Night Parrots (File 79_80) - Map-Folio 12 (MS 8241)

Class 2. Consignment received 1992, 1988-1991

This consignment comprises correspondence, personal papers, notebooks and drafts of including Lileth Poems and works published in Eschatologies. The correspondence includes letters from family, literary and magazine editors, Robert Adamson, Dorothy Porter, Peter Porter, Fay Zwicky, David Brooks and Craig Loney.

Series 2. Correspondence, personal papers, drafts and notebooks, 1988-91

The papers in this addition include correspondence, early personal papers, drafts and notebooks.

These papers are part of a consignment received on 25 May 1992.

Correspondence, 1988-91 (File 32_35) - Box 5 (MS 8241)

The correspondence includes letters from family, literary and magazine editors, Robert Adamson, Dorothy Porter, Peter Porter, Fay Zwicky, David Brooks and Craig Loney. (The Loney letters are in Folder 28, Box 4, restricted).

Personal papers (File 36) - Box 5 (MS 8241)

The personal papers include school reports and university results, congratulatory letters on academic achievement, references, and photographs.

Notebooks, 1989-91 (File 37_47) - Box 5 (MS 8241)

The notebooks contain manuscript drafts of poems including the Lilith poems, notes on Max Dupain's photography and a few pages of diary entries.

Lilith poems (File 48_51) - Box 6 (MS 8241)

Contains drafts and final typed version.

Proofs of poems from Eschatologies (File 52_54) - Box 6 (MS 8241)

Includes photocopies of source material particularly related to the divining rod, a theme of one of the series from Eschatologies.

Typescripts of poems, mainly published in Eschatologies (File 55_58) - Box 7 (MS 8241)

Typescripts are annotated.

Copies of published works (File 59) - Box 7 (MS 8241)

Includes Eschatologies, Ultramarine, The Bird Catcher's Song, and Salt.

Class 3. Consignment received 1993, 1989-1993

This consignment comprises correspondence, notebooks and drafts including proofs and poems submitted for The Bird Catcher Anthology and Salt. Correspondents include Dennis Haskell, Ken Bolton, John Tranter, Fay Zwicky and Anne Brewster.

Series 3. Correspondence, drafts and notebooks, 1989-93

The consignment, received on 21 June 1993, includes correspondence, drafts and notebooks.

Correspondence, 1989-91 (File 60_62) - Box 7 (MS 8241)

Letters from family members and poets, including Dennis Haskell, Ken Bolton, John Tranter, Fay Zwicky and Anne Brewster; acceptances and rejections from publishers; letters concerning poetry readings and residencies, and submitting poems to Salt.

Syzygy (File 63) - Box 8 (MS 8241)

Typescript annotated drafts.

Full Fathom Five (File 64_66) - Box 8 (MS 8241)

Typescript annotated drafts, and comments on the poems.

Notebooks, 1991-92 (File 67_70) - Box 8 (MS 8241)

The notebooks contain drafts of poems.

Notebook, 1992- (File 71) - Box 9 (MS 8241)

The hardcover notebook is entitled Parallels: an illuminated volume. It includes drafts of poems, including some for Syzygy, illustrations, photographs, diary entries and addresses of contacts and journals for review. Many of the entries are dated.

Notebook, 1993- (File 72) - Box 9 (MS 8241)

The hardcover notebook includes personal comments about family.

The Bird Catcher's Song (File 73) - Box 9 (MS 8241)

Contains poems submitted for this anthology.

Salt (File 74_76) - Box 9 (MS 8241)

Contains proofs and poems submitted for Salt.

Class 4. Consignment received 2018, 1976-2017

This consignment comprisesomprises ten large bound journals and a number of small journals; draft material for published and unpublished writings; correspondence with Tracey Ryan, Wendy Kinsella, Randolph Stow, Peter Porter, Alex Miller, Alison Croggin, Sarah Day, Galway Kinnell, Les Murray and others; interviews with and by Kinsella; material relating to professional teaching, poetry readings and lectures; photographs; and printed material. The collection offers rich evidence of Kinsella's creative process, his sources of inspiration, his primary artistic relationship with his partner, Tracey Ryan, his friendships and network of other literary figures, and the importance the Australian landscape holds to his sense of identity.

Series 4. Proofs

Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems proofs, 2003 (File 81) - Box 13

1st pass Norton

Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems proofs, 2003 (File 82) - Box 13

2nd pass Norton

Peripheral Light proofs, 2003 (File 86) - Box 14

Fremantle version

Proofs for On the Outskirts, 2017 (File 102) - Box 16

Published by University of Queensland Press

Marked proofs for Old Growth, March 2017 (File 103) - Box 17

Published by Transit Lounge

Annotated proofs of critical-creative book Polysituatedness, January 2017 (File 106) - Box 17

Published by Manchester University Press

Norton first pass proofs for Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography, 2008 (File 109) - Box 18
Norton second pass proofs for Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography, 2008 (File 110) - Box 18
Norton bound proofs for Divine Comedy; pocket diary, 2008; 2011-2012 (File 111) - Box 18
Doppler Effect proofs, 2003 (File 116) - Box 19

2nd pass

Fast Loose Beginnings proofs, 2006 (File 117) - Box 19
The New Arcadia pre-proof printout, nd (File 118) - Box 20
Further Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography proofs, 2008 (File 124) - Box 20

Published by Inferno Press

Corrected proofs for Crow's Breath: stories, 2014 (File 154) - Box 24

Published by Transit Lounge, Melbourne

Proof printout of chapbook Reflectors, 2003 (File 158) - Box 24

Published in the Idaho Review

On the Outskirts notes and Graphology proof corrections, 2016 (File 195) - Box 27

Includes two Julie Dowling Icon poems

Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry random proof pages, 2008 (File 205) - Box 29
Corrected/annotated proofs of Spatial Relations, nd (File 214) - Box 30

2 volumes from Rodopi. Unsorted, out of order

Series 5. Unpublished material

MA thesis, 2000 (File 83) - Box 13

Auto original bound copy ECU MA thesis

Unpublished poetry manuscript Forests of the Night, 2012 (File 104) - Box 17

Note by John Kinsella: Solicited by a small Denmark Western Australia press for letterpress publishing but did not eventuate

Only copy of unpublished 'Clarel' concretion poem, nd (File 171) - Box 25
Unpublished poetry drafts/poems, 2003 (File 179) - Box 26
Unpublished poems never placed in digital form from their original typewriter script, 2015 (File 197) - Box 27

Series 6. Academia

ECU/State Library John Kinsella lectures series material, 2004-2005 (File 84) - Box 13
Kenyan Master Class in Poetry, 2001 (File 94) - Box 14
Comus programme (Cambridge), 2008 (File 126) - Box 20
Lecture notes ECU, State Library, 2003 (File 127) - Box 20
Teaching materials, 2004-2010 (File 134) - Box 21
Lecture notes, reviews, drafts, 2000-2007 (File 190) - Box 27

Series 7. Publications

Justice Environments Conference Handbook, 2006 (File 85) - Box 13
Copy of Panopticon, 2001 (File 89) - Box 14

Note by John Kinsella: rare very limited letterpress publication

Two issues of Vegan Voice with articles, 2001 (File 92) - Box 14
Weekend Australian Magazine, 2007 (File 128) - Box 20
Love Sonnets by John Kinsella, 2005 (File 125) - Box 20
Copies of Spiralling (Newton Institute early 2017), Italian trans of John Kinsella's version of Divine Comedy, and A Failure to Fully Confess (2015), 2015-2017 (File 130) - Box 21
Copies of books Marine (with Alan Jenkins, Enitharmon, UK), Globe Hotel and Inner City Poems (Vallum Chapbooks, Canada), and Spanish translation of America: or Glow, 2012-2016 (File 142) - Box 22
Copy of Kangaroo Virus (with Ron Sims), 1998 (File 162) - Box 24
Copy of Morpheus: A Novel and proof corrections, 2013 (File 163) - Box 24

Published by Blazevox, USA

Copy of A Shared Wonder of Light (West Cork) — poetry and photos book done with Irish photographer John D'Alton, 2016 (File 164) - Box 24
America, 2005 (File 167) - Box 25
Copies of Stand magazine (Leeds) co-edited with Michael Hulse, 1999-2000 (File 201) - Box 28

Does not include the American postmodern issue

Copies of signed books by John Kinsella, 1995-2010 (File 202) - Box 28

Some not readily available in Australia

Rare chapbooks by John Kinsella, 1998-2014 (File 203) - Box 28
Over There anthology, 2008 (File 208) - Box 29

Copy of Singapore-Australia poetry anthology co-edited with Alvin Pang (Ethos Press, Singapore)

Copies of This Corner journal/zine from Cambridge (co-edited with Rod Mengham), 2011-2012 (File 212) - Box 29

Note by John Kinsella: Extremely rare — a set exists in the Cambridge UL, but not elsewhere in a library to my knowledge and probably not that many full sets in private hands

Booklet of poetry, 2017 (File 213) - Box 29

Twelves for the Twelfth Nigh: Poems in support of the Beeliar wetlands

Series 8. Drafts

3rd draft of Cocos Novel (became Postcolonial), 2004 (File 87) - Box 14
Early typescript draft versions of Jam Tree Gully cycle poetry manuscripts with annotations, 2014-2015 (File 107) - Box 17

Note by John Kinsella: Pertaining to the eventual book versions of Firebreaks (Published by Norton) and Open Door (UWAP), done on a 1950s Hermes 3000 typewriter

Annotated typescript of Inside Out, 2013 (File 108) - Box 17
Early draft arrangement of unpublished collection: Peace Poems, 2017 (File 112) - Box 18
Earliest version (very short version) of stories collection In the Shade of the Shady Tree, 2008-2009 (File 113) - Box 18

Eventually published by Ohio University Press, 2012

Graphology book(s) manuscript, 2016 (File 114) - Box 19

Published by Five Islands Press

The New Arcadia bound manuscript, 2002 (File 115) - Box 19

John Kinsella's draft master copy

Peter Porter's original, typewriter-corrected typescript for his section of Rivers with John Kinsella and Sean O'Brien, nd (File 119) - Box 20

Published by Fremantle Press

Drafts, poetry, 2013-2017 (File 132) - Box 21
Drafts, poetry, 2013-2017 (File 133) - Box 21
Assorted print/corrected drafts, including Jaguar's Dream translation book drafts, 2004 (File 129) - Box 21
Fast Loose Beginnings notes, drafts, correspondence, proofs etc, nd (File 136) - Box 21
Further drafts re Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography, 2003 (File 141) - Box 22
Typewriter typescript drafts re The New Arcadia and Peripheral Light (new poems section) and other published and unpublished 2003-2004 poems, 2003-2006 (File 144) - Box 22
Printed and corrected/annotated drafts etc, 2014-2016 (File 146) - Box 22
Postcolonial novel draft 4, nd (File 147) - Box 23
Annotated drafts, 2002-2012 (File 160) - Box 24
'Avoneering' transcription drafts, 1999 (File 161) - Box 24

Uncorrected from cassette tapes. Conversations in the W.A. wheat belt with Glen Phillips

Sacre Coeur: a salt tragedy (File 166) - Box 25

Original typescript draft on Olivetti typewriter at York under Walwalinj

Shades of the Sublime and Beautiful, 2005 (File 175) - Box 25

Original/first typewriter typescript drafts of poems

Corrected drafts from Ireland/stuff re Refuge novella/notes on libretti (various tales) for Grimm's Tales (Victorian Opera Scholars — composer Gordon Kerry), 2014 (File 176) - Box 26
Miscellaneous drafts, nd (File 178) - Box 26
Work drafts, 2006-2007 (File 180) - Box 26
'Vital Waters', 2003 (File 183) - Box 26

Original typewriter typescript draft

Miscellaneous drafts and notes (including handwritten 1994 notes re 1995's Radnoti Poems), 1994-2007 (File 188) - Box 27
Drafts for Divine Comedy, Shades of the Sublime & Beautiful and The New Arcadia — handwritten, typewriter typescript etc, 2005 (File 189) - Box 27
A Failure to Fully Confess, 2015 (File 196) - Box 27

Original typewriter typescript corrected draft

Series 9. Correspondence

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 2001-2004 (File 88) - Box 14
Correspondence Tracy Ryan, John Kinsella, and Wendy Kinsella, 2004-2005 (File 90) - Box 14
Miscellaneous Correspondence folder 4, 2000 (File 120) - Box 20
Miscellaneous Correspondence folder 3 (b), 2001-2007 (File 122) - Box 20
Miscellaneous Correspondence folder 3 (a), 2000-2016 (File 143) - Box 22
Letters in sleeved folder, 1995-2008 (File 152) - Box 23

Correspondents include Randolph Stow, Peter Porter, Alex Miller, Alison Croggon, Sarah Day, Galway Kinnell and others

Miscellaneous Correspondence folder 8, 2001-2013 (File 153) - Box 23
Sleeved folder of correspondence, poems (File 156) - Box 24

Correspondents include Les Murray, Randolph Stow poem originals; drafts of concretion poems — spiral medallion, topknot Australian 'de-mapping' originals by John Kinsella

Miscellaneous Correspondence folder 5, 1999-2002 (File 165) - Box 25
John Ashbery letter to John Kinsella with batch of poems by his Bard students, 2000 (File 169) - Box 25
Miscellaneous Correspondence folder 6, 2001-2006 (File 172) - Box 25
Miscellaneous Correspondence folder 7 (File 174) - Box 25
Miscellaneous Correspondence folder 2, 2001 (File 181) - Box 26
Letter and manuscript from Ann Blonstein, 2005 (File 184) - Box 26
Folder of sleeves containing letters, school report, and cards, 1976-2007 (File 191) - Box 27
Miscellaneous Correspondence folder 9, 2002-2007 (File 192) - Box 27
Miscellaneous Correspondence folder 10, 1997-2013 (File 204) - Box 29

Series 10. Journals

2 Journals, 2013; 2017 (File 95) - Box 15
2 Journals, 2015-2016 (File 96) - Box 15
2 Journals, October 2016-October 2017 (File 97) - Box 15
4 Journals, 2013-2016 (File 98) - Box 16
3 Journals, 2013-2016 (File 99) - Box 16
Journal, 2013-2016 (File 100) - Box 16
2 spiral-bound journals and 4 pocket-sized journals, 2003 (File 150) - Box 23

Includes aerial photo of Wheatlands farmhouse and surrounding area

Series 11. Musical compositions

Libretto of Snow Queen for composer Gordon Kerry, 2016 (File 101) - Box 16

Performed by the Victorian Opera Company in 2017

Copy of five songs of five poems by John Kinsella, 2008-2019 (File 105) - Box 17

set by composer Gordon Kerry

Matthew Orlovich Links of SATB choir, 2000 (File 123) - Box 20

Series 12. Audio Visual material

Audio Cassette - Glen Phillips interviewing John Kinsella at ECU, c. 2000 (File 138) - Box 22
Glen Phillips interviews John Kinsella circa 2000, 2000 (Item NLA.MS-SAV017242) - Cassette-Box 814
1 item, TDK SA90, Compact cassette tape
Audio Cassettes (2) - John Kinsella interviewing Andrew Taylor, 2000 (File 139) - Box 22
Andrew Taylor interviewed by John Kinsella 21/08/2001, 21/08/2001 (Item NLA.MS-SAV017243) - Cassette-Box 814
1 item, TDK D90, Compact cassette tape
A Taylor interviewed by John Kinsella Side 4 and Side 5 29/08/2001, 29/08/2001 (Item NLA.MS-SAV017244) - Cassette-Box 814
1 item, Fuji 60, Compact cassette tape
Audio cassette - Tracy Ryan delivering John Kinsella's lecture at Curtin University, 2001 (File 140) - Box 22
CW 112 Week 9 Genre 2001 Prof J Kinsella read by T Ryan, 2001 (Item NLA.MS-SAV017241) - Cassette-Box 814
1 item, TDK D120, Compact cassette tape

Series 13. Photographs

Packet of colour photographs, 2000s (File 146a) - Box 22
Packet of colour photographs, 2000s (File 146b) - Box 22
Photographs, labelled and in sleeves, 2000-2009 (File 193) - Box 27

Includes numerous postcards from many writers, friends etc

Series 14. Manuscripts

Smith Street play, nd (File 93) - Box 14

with Tracy Ryan but before director Steve Chinna's textual additions

Original POETICS manuscript, 2002 (File 149) - Box 23

Bound and never published in this form

Forrest Gander letter and earliest (bound) manuscript of Forest Gander's and John Kinsella's collaborative book Redstart, 2010 (File 159) - Box 24

Note by John Kinsella: This is the earliest arrangement. The book's arrangement changed as the authors dialogued and added more material

The Wasps — verse play, Cambridge, 2002 (File 173) - Box 25

Series 15. Notebooks

Italy, pocket notebook, nd (File 131) - Box 21
Unbound notebook: Tubingen work, 2015-2016 (File 198) - Box 27
3 medium-sized spiral-bound notebooks/journals and one small notebook., 2015-2016 (File 199) - Box 28

Note by John Kinsella: Includes the ONLY copy of Graphology Rune poems outside a few that were typed up from the handwritten drafts - no other copy exists in any form — it has not been typed up. Unpublished

1 small spiral-bound notebook, nd (File 200) - Box 28

Series 16. Miscellaneous Papers

Printout interview with Andrew Taylor, 2001 (File 91) - Box 14
Newspaper and review clippings, 2006; 2008 (File 121) - Box 20
John Forbes faxes, 1996-2003 (File 135) - Box 21

copied from fading fax paper of letters and Forbes poems

Miscellaneous papers 'Bits and pieces', 1999-2012 (File 137) - Box 21
Rotterdam and Tubingen visit, 2017 (File 145) - Box 22
Papers preparing for Randolph Stow's Land's Meaning poems, 2013 (File 148) - Box 23

Published by Fremantle Press

Assorted documents, 2002-2018 (File 151) - Box 23

includes Marjorie Perloff's original of introduction to Doppler Effect: collected experimental poems, and Poems for Manus Detainees

Assorted papers (File 155) - Box 24

includes reviews

Miscellaneous papers 'Odds & sods', 1995-2012 (File 157) - Box 24

includes a copy of Papertiger CD ROM issue with feature by various people on John Kinsella's work

'Bonfire night' letterpress, 2003 (File 168) - Box 25
Blue Mountains papers, 1995 (File 170) - Box 25
Various reviews, articles etc., 1999-2009 (File 177) - Box 26
Miscellaneous travel docs/readings, 2003-2009 (File 182) - Box 26
Miscellaneous papers, 2006-2007 (File 185) - Box 26
Faded fax pages of lost book D & G co-written via fax with Urs Jaeggi in the mid 90s, 2001 (File 186) - Box 26

Several copies were sent to various people of a photocopied version late 90s but all those who received copies lost or misplaced them over the years

Miscellaneous papers 'odds & sods folder', 2007 (File 187) - Box 27
Miscellaneous papers including drafts, notes, 2015-2016 (File 194) - Box 27
Earlier Open Door Jam Tree Gully work (2016), 2012-2016 (File 206) - Box 29

Includes two survey-failure (numbers 4 & 6) 'un-mapping' poems in original typescript with 'illustration'; typewriter drafts some unused in eventual book

Drafts and notes, 2013-2015 (File 207) - Box 29
'Unbound notebook', 2016-2017 (File 209) - Box 29
Anthology of Western Australian poetry (with Tracy Ryan); notes, 2016-2017 (File 210) - Box 29
City of Perth book bag, nd (File 211) - Box 29
Catalogue of Karl Wiebke painted hoops with handwritten 'spiral' poems by John Kinsella inside the hoops etc., 2015 (File 215) - Folio-Box Shared, Folio 31 (MS 8241), Folder HYATT WING folio 31 (SB 000014)

Note by John Kinsella: This is a unique piece. Some of these images were photographed (by Wendy Kinsella) and the images used in the book Spiralling (Cambridge) with Karl Wiebke's permission

Class 5. Consignment received 2023, 1980 - 2022

This consignment comprises manuscripts (manual typewriter), handwritten drafts and edited printouts from The Collected Poems Volume One – The Ascension of Sheep(1980) to Supervivid Depastoralism(2021). There are journals from (2010-2022), some of these containing original drawing poems as well as a CD produced by Writing WA and the West Australian Education Department Including Parrot deaths: rites of passage. Personal papers Contain photographs, ephemera, correspondence from publishers and peers such as Javant Biarujia,, Ronald Sharp, Dennis Haskell, Allan McKinley, Ian Henderseon, and Roger Greenwald. Of note there two paintings by Karl Wiebke, gifted to Kinsella for launching Wiebke's exhibition in 1996 at Galerie Düsseldorf.

Series 17. Proofs, typescripts and drafts, 1980 - 2022

False Claims of Colonial Thieves, 2018 (File 216) - Box 32 (MS 8241)

Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised the this material may contain names, descriptions and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally be sensitive.

This material contains proofs of False Claims of Colonial Thieves with Charmaine Papertalk Green proofs containing a dedication to her deceased brothers, and includes First Nations language: corrections apply to John Kinsella's work (only).

Phase Change anthology Half World (JK) novel extract proofs, March 2022 (File 217) - Box 32 (MS 8241)
Graphology 1995-2015, 1995 - 2021 (File 218) - Box 32 (MS 8241)

Second edition proof corrections including emails with Gareth Jenkins and Gary Clarke.

The Wound (Arc, UK) proofs (January), 2018 (File 219) - Box 32 (MS 8241)

Poems after Buile Suibhne and Friedrich Holderlin; includes emails with Arc publications.

Metaphysics (book-length poem) (File 221) - Box 32 (MS 8241)

Original typescript: Keening, Composition, Field Guideless, Connect, Disconnect.

Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry (File 222) - Box 32 (MS 8241)

Folder 1 - Proofs and documents.

Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry (File 223) - Box 32 (MS 8241)

Folder 2 - Proofs.

Hollow Earth novel, 2018 (File 226) - Box 33 (MS 8241)

Final draft.

Lucida Intervalla novel, 2016 (File 227) - Box 33 (MS 8241)

Third draft.

Brimstone: a book of villanelles (Arc, 2020), 2020 (File 228) - Box 33 (MS 8241)

Second pass proofs.

Notes from Under the Seas, n.d. (File 229) - Box 33 (MS 8241)

Novella proofs.

Musical Dante poems, 2021 (File 230) - Box 33 (MS 8241)

Italy proofs.

Hollow Earth novel, 2017 (File 231) - Box 33 (MS 8241)

Folder 1 - Proofs.

Hollow Earth novel, 2017 (File 232) - Box 34 (MS 8241)

Folder 2 - Proofs.

(Brimstone) A Little Book of Villanelles, 2019 (File 234) - Box 34 (MS 8241)

July 2019 (draft) version before title was changed.

Tangling with the epic, 2019 (File 236) - Box 34 (MS 8241)

by John Kinsella and Kwame Dawes proofs (JK corrections only).

Copy of Tangling with the epic, 2019 (Item 237) - Box 34 (MS 8241)

by John Kinsella and Kwame Dawes proofs (Peepal Tree).

Typescript poem drafts for Supervivid Depastoralism, 2020 (File 238) - Box 34 (MS 8241)

Plus unpublished typescript drafts.

Supervivid Depastoralism, n.d. (File 239) - Box 34 (MS 8241)

Early proofs (Vagabond)

Supervivid Depastoralism final proof, 2021 (File 240) - Box 35 (MS 8241)
Lucida Intervalla (novel) early proofs, n.d. (File 241) - Box 35 (MS 8241)

Early proofs.

Open Door, June 2018 (File 243) - Box 35 (MS 8241)

First pass proofs.

Open Door, Early 2018 (File 244) - Box 35 (MS 8241)

Full length version (before cuts) early 2018.

Samson Agonistes Arc proofs, October 2018 (File 246) - Box 35 (MS 8241)

Proofs.

Samson Agonistes, 2017 - 2018 (File 247) - Box 35 (MS 8241)

Reversioning - Cambridge May 2017 and 'JTG' April 2018.

Notes, drafts, past corrections, c. 2018 (File 250) - Box 36 (MS 8241)

Mostly handwritten notes undated; includes printouts of emails.

Drafts in typescript, 2018 - 2019 (File 251) - Box 36 (MS 8241)

For Open Door and other works; Hermes typewriter.

Poem draft printouts with edits or different versions, 2010 - 2022 (File 252) - Box 36 (MS 8241)

Folder 1.

Poem draft printouts with edits or different versions, 2010 - 2022 (File 253) - Box 36 (MS 8241)

Folder 2.

Drafts, copies, versions and associated docs, 2010s - 2020s (File 254) - Box 36 (MS 8241)

Includes email printouts and copy of Brass Razzo and other poems by Kate Jarman.

Django & Jezebel: a fantastical novel, 2020 (Item 255) - Box 37 (MS 8241)

Print proof copy (MadHat still haven't released after quite a few years have passed)

Django & Jezebel: a fantastical novel, 2019 (File 256) - Box 37 (MS 8241)

Folder 1. Second draft.

Django & Jezebel: a fantastical novel, 2019 (File 257) - Box 37 (MS 8241)

Folder 2. Second draft: Act II.

Django & Jezebel: a fantastical novel, 2020 (File 258) - Box 37 (MS 8241)

First pass proofs.

Drowning in wheat, 2015 - 2016 (File 277) - Box 40 (MS 8241)

Selected poems second pass proofs.

Firebreaks, 2016 (File 278) - Box 40 (MS 8241)

Second pass proofs (poems, UWAP).

Divinia Commedia, 2013 (File 279) - Box 40 (MS 8241)

Raffaelli Eidtore proofs.

Vision of error, 2013 (File 280) - Box 41 (MS 8241)

Five Island Press later proofs (printout from Schull, Ireland).

Ireland, 2013 - 2014 (File 281) - Box 41 (MS 8241)

Handwritten notes, printouts and marked drafts.

Handwritten drafts and notes, 2000s (File 282) - Box 41 (MS 8241)
Sack, 2014 (File 287) - Box 41 (MS 8241)

Proofs Picador; Printed out Ireland

Typescript poems, January 2019 - May 2019 (File 289) - Box 42 (MS 8241)

Hermes typewriter.

Beyond Ambiguity: critical book on poetry, Manchester University Press, October 2021 (File 290) - Box 42 (MS 8241)

Second pass proofs.

Pushing Back(stories, Transit Lounge), 2020 (File 291) - Box 42 (MS 8241)

Folder 1 - Proofs.

Pushing Back(stories, Transit Lounge), 2000 (File 292) - Box 42 (MS 8241)

Folder 2 - Proofs.

The Dislocations: the Selected Innovative Poems of Paul Muldoon proofs, 2019 (File 293) - Box 43 (MS 8241)

Without Kinsella's intro (added to next set of proofs), Liverpool University Press.

The Dislocations: selected innovative poems of Paul Muldoon (File 294) - Box 43 (MS 8241)

Liverpool University Press... selected and introduced by John Kinsella – rough early proofs with intro unproofed

The Collected Poems Volume One – The Ascension of Sheep (UWAP), 1980 - 2005 (File 295) - Box 43 (MS 8241)

Folder 1 of 4 - First pass proofs without THD's intro, without afterword and notes, and contents not finalised

The Collected Poems Volume One – The Ascension of Sheep (UWAP), 1980 - 2005 (File 296) - Box 43 (MS 8241)

Folder 2 of 4 - First pass proofs without THD's intro, without afterword and notes, and contents not finalised

The Collected Poems Volume One – The Ascension of Sheep (UWAP), 1980 - 2005 (File 297) - Box 44 (MS 8241)

Folder 3 of 4 - First pass proofs without THD's intro, without afterword and notes, and contents not finalised

The Collected Poems Volume One – The Ascension of Sheep (UWAP), 1980 - 2005 (File 298) - Box 44 (MS 8241)

Folder 4 of 4 - First pass proofs without THD's intro, without afterword and notes, and contents not finalised

Brimstone, Pushing Back, APJ Resist! special issue and other docs, 2019 - 2020 (File 303) - Box 44 (MS 8241)

Printouts of proof corrections with notes and associated letters and emails.

Open handwritten 'journal' loose note form, 2017 - 2021 (File 304) - Box 44 (MS 8241)

Drafts, ideas for poems/stories/essays relating to many works including Hotel Impossible, Cartoon novella and others.

Poem drafts, 2016 - 2021 (File 305) - Box 45 (MS 8241)

A mix of typescript, printouts with corrections and other items.

Aftering Delmore Schwartz's translation of Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, 2012 - 2020 (File 306) - Box 45 (MS 8241)

A de-translation... pre-proof version, New England Review proofs, and signed printed copy of Equipage's 2020 publication.

Handwritten notes relating to poems, essays, stories, January 2020 (File 308) - Box 45 (MS 8241)

Notes for Collected Poems; Proofing emails for Collected Vol 1 and Beyond Ambiguity (Manchester Uni Press); Pen sketches for Graphology Drawing-Poems and Graphology Divine Comedy Poem-'Illustrations'; work notes 'in medias res'.

Musical Dante drafts printouts – corrected, 2020 (File 309) - Box 45 (MS 8241)

Includes printouts – corrected and proofing emails (to Maria Cristina Biggio).

Spatial Relations (Rodopi), 2013 (File 310) - Box 45 (MS 8241)

Proof correction emails to Gordon Collier.

Post-Testament poem sequence, 2020 (File 311) - Box 45 (MS 8241)

Typescript drafts.

The Ascension of Sheep (first volume of Collected Poems), 2020 (File 312) - Box 45 (MS 8241)

Tim Kinsella proof comments.

Series 18. Manuscripts, 2013 - 2020

The Wound manuscript 2017 version, 2017 (File 220) - Box 32 (MS 8241)

Sweeny and Holderlin.

Peace Poems, 2017 (File 224) - Box 33 (MS 8241)

Manuscript.

Journaling a Poetic Activism, 2016 (File 233) - Box 34 (MS 8241)

Sydney.

Spectral Trees – After Emily Bronte, 2018 (File 235) - Box 34 (MS 8241)

Book manuscript unpublished May 2018 version.

Timon or Basket Z novel, 2017 (File 245) - Box 35 (MS 8241)

Manuscript; Note on file - Madhat was going to publish but didn't; extract published in Meanjin online.

The Mahler Erasures novel, June 2018 (File 248) - Box 36 (MS 8241)

Unproofed manuscript version

Rosewood Cottage poems, Schull, 2013 - 2014 (File 276) - Box 40 (MS 8241)

Including early manuscript of unpublished poetry collection Bellow or Hiss

Reverence, co-authored work by John Kinsella and Urs Jaeggi, January 2020 (File 307) - Box 45 (MS 8241)

Original manuscript - hand-written (with some printed material) written in the James Joyce House, Zurich.

Series 19. Public addresses, conference and academic papers, 2000 - 2020

Rotterdam Poetry Conference paper, 2017 (File 242) - Box 35 (MS 8241)
Assorted print 'offcuts' and cards, 2000s (File 283) - Box 41 (MS 8241)

Copy of public lecture drafts.

Hotel Impossible (novel), July 2020 (File 249) - Box 36 (MS 8241)

In Countertext (journal - part of a special issue on JK's work) proofs.

Series 20. Journals, 2010 - 2022

Unbound Journal fragments, 2010 - 2018 (File 259) - Box 37 (MS 8241)

Loose handwritten.

Journal, 2 November 2017 - 9 January 2018 (File 260) - Box 37 (MS 8241)

Handwritten with printouts of emails and poems.

Journal, 9 January 2018 - 17 May 2018 (File 261) - Box 37 (MS 8241)

Handwritten with printouts of email and poem.

Journal, 18 January 2020 - 14 February 2020 (File 262) - Box 38 (MS 8241)

Handwritten with printouts of email and poem (Rapperswil to 'JTG')

Journal, 22 March 2019 - 24 June 2019 (File 263) - Box 38 (MS 8241)

Handwritten, 1 colour sketch with printouts of email and poem.

Journal, 18 May 2018 - 30 September 2018 (File 264) - Box 38 (MS 8241)

Handwritten with printouts of emails and article.

Journal (Zurich to Schull), 12 October 2018 - 1 January 2019 (File 265) - Box 38 (MS 8241)

Handwritten.

Journal (Schull), January 2019 (File 266) - Box 38 (MS 8241)
Journal, 27 June 2019 - 7 September 2019 (File 267) - Box 38 (MS 8241)

Handwritten with printouts of emails and notes for poetry activism talk.

Journal, 1 October 2018 - 21 March 2019 (File 268) - Box 38 (MS 8241)

Handwritten, 1 colour sketch with printouts of email and poem.

Journal, 14 January 2020 - 3 May 2020 (File 269) - Box 39 (MS 8241)

Handwritten, with printouts of emails (one relating to COVID) and poem; includes loose garden plan sketches.

Journal, 4 May 2020 - 15 June 2020 (File 270) - Box 39 (MS 8241)

Handwritten, 1 colour sketch with printouts of emails and poems.

Journal, 11 December 2019 - 17 January 2020 (File 271) - Box 39 (MS 8241)

Cambridge to Rapperswil.

Journal, 16 June 2020 - 14 November 2020 (File 272) - Box 39 (MS 8241)

Handwritten.

Journal 'A', 15 November 2020 - 13 June 2021 (File 273) - Box 39 (MS 8241)

Contains Graphology Drawing Poems [note: 'A', 'B', and 'C' journals, plus '3rd Vol Drawing-Poems; are all interconnected - the 'drawing poems' are at the core of Kinsella's poetic practice over recent years, and extend back to the first works in Kinsella's teens and especially early 20s; some of these drawing-poems appear in Saussure's Kaleidoscope: Graphology Drawing Poems Five Islands Press, 2021].

Journal 'B', 27 May 2021 - 15 May 2022 (File 274) - Box 40 (MS 8241)

Demi-concurrent with 'A'

Journal Drawing Poems (3rd Vol), 23 September 2021 - 22 August 2022 (File 275) - Box 40 (MS 8241)

3rd volume - original colour works.

Journal 'C', 14 June 2021 - September 2021 (File 288) - Box 42 (MS 8241)

Graphology Drawing Poems, [connects with earlier Graphology Drawing-Poem journals].

Series 21. Copies of published works, 2002 - 2020

Resource package produced by Writing WA and the West Australian Education Department with CD and cover letter. (File 215) - Box 32 (MS 8241)
Resource cd 22 produced by writingWA, Government of Western Australia and the Department of Education, Department of Culture and the Arts, 2010 (Item NLA.MS-DMA000820) - Digital-Carriers-Box DMA 15
1 item, Procopy., Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)

Includes Parrot deaths: rites of passage by John Kinsella.

Book copy of Brimstone: a book of villanelles, 2020 (File 284) - Box 41 (MS 8241)

Arc, UK; signed.

Book copy of Dislocations: The Innovative poems of Paul Muldoon, 2002 (File 285) - Box 41 (MS 8241)

Liverpool University Press; initialled inside front cover by 'JK'.

Book copy of Notes from Under the Sea: a novella in Countertext Vol 5, Issue 2, August 2019 (Item 299) - Box 44 (MS 8241)
Book copy of Musical Dante (Raffaelli Editore, Italy) translated (bilingual facing text) by Maria Cristina Biggio, 2021 (Item 300) - Box 44 (MS 8241)
Book copy of novel Hotel Impossible, August 2020 (Item 301) - Box 44 (MS 8241)

In special issue of Countertext: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary re the experimental fiction of John Kinsella [initialled copy].

Book copy of Saussure's Kaleidoscope: Graphology Drawing Poems, 2021 (Item 302) - Box 44 (MS 8241)

Five Island Press [signed and written in front re provenance pertaining to Journal ('A' etc.) Graphology Drawing-poem cycles].

Series 22. Personal papers, 1994 - 2020

Correspondence with publishers and others, 2009 (File 225) - Box 33 (MS 8241)

Publisher correspondence, letters of congratulations from academics and peers including Javant Biarujia, Brendan Sullivan, Ian Henderson of King's College and David Brooks; copy of Adelaide Advertiser Rain story From Griffith Review.

Correspondence, 2000 - 2020 (File 286) - Box 41 (MS 8241)

Personal and other letters.

Colour photographs (x 19) of Tracy Ryan, John, Tim and Wendy Kinsella, 2002 - 2012 (File 313) - Folder MS COLD STORE 127

Photographs taken in Perth, Gambier (Ohio) and St Ives (Cornwall).

Painting 1 by Karl Wiebke, 1994 (Item 314) - Folio-Box 46 (MS 8241)

Painting gifted to John Kinsella for launching Karl Wiebke's exhibition in 1996 at Galerie Düsseldorf (for Perth International Festival)

Painting 2 by Karl Wiebke, 1994 (Item 315) - Folio-Box 46 (MS 8241)

Painting gifted to John Kinsella for launching Karl Wiebke's exhibition in 1996 at Galerie Düsseldorf (for Perth International Festival)


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