Poetry, 1959-98

Component identifier:

Series 34

Content Summary:

This series includes correspondence with publishers, contributors and other writers, as well as drafts, typescripts, notes and cuttings of published poems from newspapers and magazines. As well as producing a substantial body of poetry, Dutton edited a number of anthologies, including Australian verse from 1805: a continuum (1975). There are also papers relating to the works On my island : poems (1967), Findings and keepings : selected poems, 1939-69 (1970), Selective affinities : new poems (1985), New and selected poems (1993) and New York nowhere (1998). Dutton wrote this final volume after suffering a stroke in May 1995 and spending four days in a New York Hospital. The remaining folders in this series contain drafts of and correspondence relating to various poems, many of which may have been included in or relate to other published anthologies of Dutton's work, or anthologies edited by him.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were purchased in a number of instalments. The bulk of the papers were received from Geoffrey Dutton between 1986 and 1998, with a further two small instalments received from his partner, Robin Lucas, in 2002 and 2003.

Names:

Geoffrey Dutton

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