Guide to the Papers of Peter Rose

Correspondence, 1990 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc12.017)

Publication of The House of Vitriol, and appointment as OUP publisher in July 1990

Correspondence, 1991-92 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc12.017)

Correspondents include Bruce Beaver, Carmel Bird, Peter Craven, Kevin Hart, John Hirst, Sandy Grant, Alison Broinowski, Michael Hofmann (plus MS of his poem), Robert Ray and Clyde Holding re ALP policies on homosexuals in the army, Michael Heyward, Robert Dessaix, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Evan Jones, Peter Steele, Stephen Edgar, Paul Kane, Ken Inglis, David Marr, Barrett Reid, Bruce Bennett, Imre Salisinszky, Gerald Murnane

Correspondence, 1993-94 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc12.017)

Correspondents include Jan Bassett, Kevin Hart, Bill Henson, Alison Broinowski, Michael Heyward, Alan Hollinghurst, Peter Craven and John Forbes (terse exchanges re Scripsi), Helen Daniel, Robert Dessaix, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Peter Steele, Stephen Edgar, Annita Keating, David Marr, Jeanne Pratt, Cassandra Pybus, Imre Salisinszky, Gerald Murnane, Stephanie Trigg, David Williamson

Correspondence, 1995 -96 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc12.017)

Correspondents include Robert Dessaix, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Paul Kane, John Kinsella, Susan Lever, Patricia, Countess of Harewood, Clifford Hocking, Ivor Indyk, Bill Ramson, David Malouf,. Helen Garner, Janet Shaw, Philip Hodgins, Hazel Rowley, Graham Little, Les Murray, B.A. Santamaria, Graeme Blundell

Correspondence, 1997 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc12.017)

Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge, Lord Harewood (and OUP UK) re a possible memoir of Callas, Sir John Drummond, R.A. Simpson, Jason Steger, Mary Jo Salter, John Simpson (Editor of OED2), Charles Mackerras, Jim Maxwell, John Hirst, Stefano de Pieri, Nicholas Jose, Ian Britain, Ken Inglis, Brendan Ryan, Barry Jones, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Stephen Edgar, Stephen Edgar

Correspondence, 1998 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc12.017)

Mary Jo Salter, Sonja Chalmers, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Michael Shmith, Ian Britain, Dennis Haskell, David Attenborough, Les Murray, Drusilla Modjeska, John Kinsella, John Button et al.

Correspondence, 1999 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc12.017)

Sonja Chalmers, Gough Whitlam, Imre Salusinszky, Helen Garner, Craig Sherborne, Brian Henry, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Nicholas Jose, Les Murray, Paul Kane, Andrew Demetriou (concerning death of his first wife, Jan Bassett), Peter Alexander (concerning Les Murray brouhaha; classic short letter re Robert Gray), etc.

Correspondence, 2000 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc12.017)

PR resigns from OUP in January: much correspondence with authors and colleagues. Other letters from Peter Craven, Craig Sherborne, Sonja Chalmers, Michael Shmith, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Imre Salusinszky, Hilary McPhee, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Andrew Demetriou, Alison Broinowski, Mary Jo Salter, Lauris Edmond, Phillip Adams, Geoffrey Bolton, Helen Garner, Bill Ramson, Brenda Niall, Graeme Blundell, Ian Britain, Joan Kerr, Stuart Macintyre, and John Hirst; plus notes after interviewing visiting poet Michael Hofmann

Signed copies of my three publications from this period: The House of Vitriol, The Catullan Rag, and Donatello in Wangaratta. (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc12.017)

Monsieur Monster (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc12.017)

Bound unpublished novel from early 1980s

Commonplace Book (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc12.017)

PR's commonplace book from 1985 to early 2000s. Quotations from various writers; some observations; lists of my reading; records of poems sent to journals in the late 1980s. Much of it transferred to electronic file called Fillipia in the 2000s. Several printed editions of Fillipia presented to friends over the years, now running to almost 200 pages.

The Portico (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc12.017)

Unpublished radio play, written in the early 1980s. Various tapes of this exist (see below); plus a 15-minute Super 8 film, directed by Peter Rose!

Oxford University Press - 1986 to 2000 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc12.017)

Began working in Marketing in 1986; became a Publisher in mid-1990. Box containing catalogues, brochures, blads, invitations to OUP launches, copies of The Record (OUP's international annual magazine) and Southern Cross (OUP Australia annual magazine which PR edited and largely wrote), and information about the 1987 International Sales Conference, which PR attended.

Oxford University Press Australia - 1998 to 2000 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc12.017)

Publishing correspondence.

PR's launch speeches introductions at a range of OUP launches throughout the 1990s (in large plastic bag) (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc12.017)

Reviews of PR's OUP books (news cuttings), and related publicity (in large plastic bag) (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc12.017)

Dealings with OUP authors or prospective authors such as Kevin Hart, Patrick McCaughey, Peter Carey, Jill Kitson, Hiroyuki Iwaki (separate files in large plastic bag)

Dealings with Peter Craven as Editor of Scripsi (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc12.017)

PR published at OUP in the early 1990s.

OUP budgets throughout the 1990s and publishing program, and lists of PR's books and their targets (in large plastic bag). (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc12.017)

OUPA's and PR's extensive dealings with Peter Porter throughout the 1990s both as a friend of PR, an 'Oxford Poet', and the editor of The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse, which PR commissioned Two files in large plastic bag with reviews (see below). (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc12.017)

Reviews of PP's books, and related publicity, and correspondence arranging a visit by PR to New York, 1999 (in large plastic bag). (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc12.017)

Large folder containing internal correspondence and other papers with management and OUP UK, etc (in large plastic bag). (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc12.017)

File containing correspondence 1991-2000 relating to OUP publishing (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc12.017)

Including the discontinuation of OUP's 'Australian writers' series. Correspondents include Barry Jones, Gough Whitlam, Dr Kate Darian-Smith, Ken Inglis and John Thompson (of National Library of Australia, relating to a book collection for the Prime Minister's Lodge commissioned by Annita Keating 1992) (in large plastic bag).

Oxford Companion to Australian Food (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc12.017)

Conceived by PR at OUP in 1999, developed with editors Stefano de Pieri, Richard Johnstone and Barbara Santich, aborted after his departure from OUP in 2000

Miles Franklin Award 1997-2002 (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc12.017)

PR was a judge during this period. Correspondence with organisers and other judges. Full lists of entries each year; longlists; shortlists; private notes; publicity material.

Peter Rose's published reviews, festival talks, radio talks, etc. 1995-2000 (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc12.017)

PR began reviewing in the mid-1990s (two short reviews in Australian Bookseller & Publisher, then, encouraged by Helen Daniel, started reviewing in Australian Book Review. Also enclosed are radio and festival talks, tributes to Peter Porter on his seventieth birthday in 1999

Peter Porter and the Australia Council 1991-1992 (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc12.017)

PR organised a letter of support and nomination for Peter Porter to receive an emeritus fellowship from the Literature board; correspondence with Sandra Forbes (Director of the Literature Board); letters of support f4rom and correspondence with David Malouf, Peter Craven, Brenda Niall, John Tranter etc. The nomination was ultimately unsuccessful.

Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry 1996 (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc12.017)

PR chaired the jury; various correspondence and lists; official criteria etc.; culminating in letter of complaint from PR re Alan Wearne's conduct and Robert Dessaix's letter to Wearne (as Chair of the Awards).

Publishing correspondence 1984-1996 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc12.017)

Correspondence with various literary editors, publishers, festival directors and organisers. Correspondents include Peter and Michael Heyward (first acceptance letter, 1984, and Michael's ongoing support for publication of my first book, The House of Vitriol), Paul Kane, Alan Hollinghurst (TLS), Joseph Parisi (Poetry Chicago), John Tranter, Philip Mead, Jamie Grant, Andrew Sant, Lyn Hard, Barrett Reid, Bruce Bennett, Dennis Haskell, R.A. Simpson, Elizabeth Webby, Louise Adler, etc.

Poetry 1972-2004 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc12.017)

Individual cards tracing publishing history of all my poems in journals and anthologies etc. Quotes from authors on back of the cards.

Melbourne Writers' Festival 1990-1997 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc12.017)

PR served on the Board and the Programming Committee throughout this time. Correspondence with Directors and various Chairs of the MWF; minutes and AGMs; notes from programming meetings; correspondence with advisers and possible guests; extensive correspondence with Hugh Tolhurst re John Ashbery's visit to MWF; MWF programs and publicity.

Victorian Writers' Centre 1997-99 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc12.017)

Board member; records and correspondence

Meanjin1998-2000 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc12.017)

Board member 1998-2000; appointment of new editor in 1998, Ken Ruthven's letter insisting that George Pappaellinas be appointed; letters from Helen Daniel, etc; also board minutes, editor's reports, and financial statements

'I Recognize My brother in a Dream' (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc12.017)

Many drafts of 1978 poem, which appeared in The House of Vitriol (1990); and which was republished and also reconceived in prose in my memoir Rose Boys (2001).

Robert Dessaix 1993-2002 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc12.017)

Assorted correspondence - letters, emails, postcards - from 1993 to 2002. Letter to Hazel Rowley re Robert. Correspondence about my idea in 2000 of writing a biography of Robert. RD's letter to Thea Astley in 1993 on her declining to be included in his Oxford anthology of gay and lesbian writing, which I published. Many other letters to RD are in the annual files too.

Various 1990-1995 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc12.017)

Reviews of PR's work: newspaper and magazine clippings; interviews etc. news of prizes, readings and festivals; some poems in newspapers

Various 1993-2000 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc12.017)

Reviews of PR's work: newspaper and magazine clippings; interviews etc. news of prizes, readings and festivals; some poems in newspapers

Picador 1989-1995 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc12.017)

All correspondence relating to the publication of my first two books, The House of Vitriol (1990) and The Catullan Rag (1993); much correspondence with Michael Heyward, who commissioned and edited it; letters to James Fraser, James Gleeson (re cover of first book); final correspondence with Nikki Christer, who decided not to publish my third collection; also royalty statements and contracts; publicity material

Hale & Iremonger 1997-2002 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc12.017)

Correspondence relating to poetry collection Donatello in Wangaratta in 1998; letters to Heather Cam, Sylvia Hale, Peter Porter; royalty statements, contract.

Further papers [NOT AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH] (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc12.017)