Consignment received 2018

Component identifier:

Class 4

Content Summary:

This consignment comprisesomprises ten large bound journals and a number of small journals; draft material for published and unpublished writings; correspondence with Tracey Ryan, Wendy Kinsella, Randolph Stow, Peter Porter, Alex Miller, Alison Croggin, Sarah Day, Galway Kinnell, Les Murray and others; interviews with and by Kinsella; material relating to professional teaching, poetry readings and lectures; photographs; and printed material. The collection offers rich evidence of Kinsella's creative process, his sources of inspiration, his primary artistic relationship with his partner, Tracey Ryan, his friendships and network of other literary figures, and the importance the Australian landscape holds to his sense of identity.

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

Names:

Kinsella, John

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