Records of the Poetry Society of Australia, 1940-1962 [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 2249394
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Poetry Society of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid available at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Available for research. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [1940-1962]
- 1.21 m.
- Summary:
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Records include correspondence with members and affiliated bodies typescripts of poems; TS draft of the First Anthology (1956); 3 sets (1 complete) of Prism; ledgers, accounts and other business papers; press cuttings and photographs. Also some personal papers of Imogen Whyse concerning her work in theatre and her activities in support of International Children's Communities in Europe. Correspondents include Dr. Felix Arnott, Peter Bladen, John Blair, D. Campbell, Betty Casey, Nancy Cato, D.M. Catts, Louis H. Clark, Stan Clarke, Patrick Coady, Brian Colebourne, Mary Coles, Commonwealth Literary Fund, Mary Cornish, Bishop Davidson, Eileen Davies, Margaret Dent, J. Devaney, Sir E. Millington-Drake (London) T. S. Eliot, Paula Fitzgerald, R.D. Fitzgerald, Vera Fitzgerald, J. Gielgud, Dame Mary Gilmore, Myrtle Glass, H.M. Green, Martin Haley, Dorothy Helmrich, A.D. Hope, P. Hopegood, R.G. Howarth, Hugh Hunt, Neil Hutchinson, Helen N. Jones, K.L. King, Ray Lawler, Norman Lindsay, A. Lloyd, James McAuley, M.B. McGrath, Prof. Milgate, Duncan Miller, Helen Reid, Dr. S. Scougall, Dame Edith Sitwell, W. Hart-Smith, D. Stewart and Judith Wright.
- Biography/History:
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Founded in Sydney in 1954 by Imogen Whyse, to promote appreciation and use of poetry and to assist new and unknown Australian poets. Activities organized by Miss Whyse included monthly publication of the poetry magazine Prism, fortnightly lectures & discussions on poetry, occasional dramatic productions of epic or verse plays a poetry library for members and the publication, 1956, of the Society's First Anthology, selected from Prism. The Society was reconstituted under a new Council in 1960.
- Notes:
- Manuscript reference no. : NLA MS 952.
- Cited In:
- Guide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia ; B68.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Descriptive list (21 p.) with index of correspondents.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1940-1962
- Other authors/contributors:
- Whyse, Imogen
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
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