Working notes for a poem.

A selection of ms. poems.

Two drafts of a lecture given at a seminar in the University of Queensland English Department, 11 Oct 1973. Published in Southerly, vol. 34 no. 2, 1974. One version mss (35 l.), second version typescript (27 l.)

Typescript and handwritten poems, with ms emendations, for the book Hart : poems, 1974. Accompanied by some "exercise" poems plus some poems included in Selected poems 1939-1975.

Letter 10 July 1965 to Alan Frost, English Dept., University of Queensland, enclosing five sonnets. Titles: The rotund sailor, The cannibal islands, Gladstone, The isthmus, A sand bank.

Commonwealth Literary Fund Lecture, delivered at the University of Queensland 15 June 1965.

Includes letters from John Blight submitting his manuscript " Down stream" to Angus & Robertson and the publishing company's assessment and reply. Also includes letters between Beatrice Davis and John Blight on the literary scene.

Typescript poem, 6 9-line stanzas, with pencilled dates 1946? 1948? on bottom of second page.

This collection contains published and unpublished manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and some prose pieces by John Blight, correspondence with individuals including Thomas Shapcott, Judith Wright, Bruce Beaver and Barbara Giles, and organisations, newspapers and literary societies. Also included are congress and festival pamphlets and papers, newspaper clippings and family photographs.