Poetry

Component identifier:

Series 4

Content Summary:

This series includes drafts of poems, notes, worksheets, typescripts and galleys relating to Brief waters, Beware the cuckoo and other poems, The waterhole, The lifted spear, The rainbow serpent and other poems, Briseis, The road to cactus-land: a group of poems, The well and the star, The view from a ninetieth birthday, Recognitions at ninety-three, The children of Somalia 1992-1994 and other poems and A gleaner's sheaf of poems.

There are also drafts of a number of unpublished, unfinished and miscellaneous poems and poetry collections, including 'The upas tree', 'The gentle Caliban', 'Ruth' and the autobiographical 'Design and ambience'.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The bulk of the Ernest Moll Papers were donated to the Library by Moll's daughter Dr Carolyn Moll in September 1997. An addition to the papers was made in October 1998 by Moll's nephew Peter Moll.

Names:

Moll, Carolyn

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