Guide to the Papers of John Kinsella, 1976-2022

Summary

Collection number:

MS 8241

Creator:

Kinsella, John

Extent:

(41 ms boxes + 1 medium folio box + 1 small folio box + 2 map folios + 1 phase box + 1 folder + 1 digital carrier)

Language:

English and English

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]'.

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Part available for research; part permission required for research until 2041; part permission required for research until 2047; part not available for research until 2061. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

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.

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.

Provenance:

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

Indexed terms

Names:

Kinsella, John

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]'.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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