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Manuscript Name | Papers of Nancy Gordon |
Manuscript Number | MSS 209 |
Last Updated | May 2022 |
Extent | 4 boxes |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Drafts of poems and short stories along with correspondence, news clippings and transcripts relating to Nancy Gordon |
Literary
The papers of poet Nancy Gordon consist of correspondence, articles, drafts, interviews, diaries and submissions, together with transcripts of creative writing course lectures by Ian Mudie
1950-1976
Poet Nancy Gordon was born in Melbourne in 1918 and educated at St Margaret’s School for Girls. After moving to Adelaide in 1944, she began writing in the late 1950s and gave radio broadcast talks on the ABC in the 1950s and 1960s. As well as tutoring in Workers’ Educational Association classes and Colleges of Advanced Education, she organised poetry workshops and evenings, including the co-founding the Friendly Street poetry performance venue
References:
Friendly Street Poets ‘Adelaide Poets Collective – Nancy Gordon’ http://friendlystreetpoets.org.au/poetry/sample-of-poets/nancy-gordon/ retrieved 9 June 2020
AustLit : Nancy Gordon https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A33558 retrieved 9 June 2020
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This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
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Papers of Nancy Gordon, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 209, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
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The numbering of the folders in this collection restarts at 1 in box 3
This collection originally included many publications which were sent to the Academy Library and catalogued separately:
Friendly Street Poetry Reader, Nos. 1-7 and 9-11
The Australian Author, Autumn - April 1976
Meanjin, 2/1977
Genre, issue 2/3 (2 copies)
Poetry Australia, No. 29, August 1969, No. 42, 1972, No. 44, 1972
Issue, May 1969, August 1969, February 1970, August 1970, August/September 1971 (2 copies), March 1972, November 1970, December 1972 (2 copies), September 1974, December 1974 (2 copies), April/May 1975, July 1975, October 1975, March 1976
Compass, 2.2
Overland, No. 68, 1977
Opinion, February-March 1976, September 1977
Ash, No. 4, 1980
Hemisphere, Vol, 20, No. 11
Australian Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, December 1962
Black Bronze Beautiful, Quantrains by Adam Small
The Realist, No. 35, Autumn 1972
Indonesia Poet in New York, W.S. Rendra
Parabolas, Prose Poems, Andrew Taylor
Searching for words, Jennifer Davids
Among Stones, Jean Lipkin
Australian Literature, 1950-1950, H.M. Green
Expression Australia, Vol. 11, No. 3, November 1972, Vol. 12, No. 2. Vol. 13, No. 2, Vol. 13, No. 2, Vol. 11, No. 2
Patrick White, Geoffrey Dutton
Australian Literature 1950-1962, A.D. Hope
Songs of the Lyre Bird, Kathleen Mary Penny
Twelve Poems, Peter Kocan
The Saturday Club Book of Poetry, indexes to Vol. 1, 2, 3 plus No. 2, Summer 1972, Issue 6, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1973, Vol. 3, No. 4, Winter 1975, Vol. 4, No. 4, Winter 1976, Vol. 2, No. 4, June 1974
Nancy Gordon — Archives
Australian poetry — 20th century
Nancy Gordon
Ian Mudie, 1911-1976
Friendly Street Poets
Poets
Folder 1
Correspondence
Various articles
Folder 2
Correspondence
Drafts
News articles
Short stories
Folder 3
Extracts
Interviews
Talks
Travel
Folder 4
Short Stories
Notes
Folder 5
Notes
Drafts
Discussion course - 'Enjoying Poetry'
Folder 6
Writers' Class notes
First efforts
Folder 7
First Draft - book
Book draft
Folder 8
Correspondence to D.J. Gordon - Vietnam, 1966-1967, South Africa, 1974-1976
Folder 9
Poetry
Correspondence
Workshop notes
Folder 10
Notes
Drafts
Poetry
Folder 11
Creative Writing course
Folder 12
Notes
Folder 1
A-Z of submissions
Diary for 1975
Folders 2-4
Articles and correspondence
Transcripts of Creative Writing lectures by Ian Mudie
Folder 5
Transcript of second year lectures by Ian Mudie
Folders 6-7
Creative Writing course lectures by Ian Mudie
Folder 8
Creative Writing course lectures by Ian Mudie
Folder 9
Photocopies of reviews and contributions to magazines and Friendly Street readers
Folder 10
Newspaper clippings
Folders 11-12
Nancy Gordon's letters