Typescript drafts of art and literature reviews from the 1990s.

This file has documents relating to judging the Herald C J Dennis Memorial Poetry Competition in 1976; The Australian poetry prize and anthology, 1984 - 1985; and the Canning Literary Awards, 1984.

Some literary works and related documents. Includes works with the following titles: 'Why is poetry important to you? : Interview for Coral Hull 27.9.2001'; 'Brushes with greatness', about David Frost, Mar 1988; 'Poetry in a prosaic age', undated; 'The public face of poetry', undated; 'Miss Virtue', undated; 'On women's lib', 1973-6?; 'The day of the Lapswits', undated; 'article on Emily, 6-Oct-1981, originally in folder with 'Emily Hope' on cover (folder discarded).

Draft of Your good Colombian friend : a novella by Jairo D. Vanegas, translated from the Spanish by the author and Judith Rodriguez, 1995. With letter of acceptance for Writer's Project Grant from the Literature Board, correspondence and notes. Original folder retained.

Handwritten observations and writings, short stories and poems from 1974 to 1992, and undated.

Correspondence, notes, research material, interview transcripts with David Rankin, newspaper cuttings, reviews and draft by Judith Rodriguez for introduction and biography on Jennifer Rankin for her book Collected Poems published by University of Queensland Press, 1990.

Booklet, seventeen leaves, comprised of sixteen typescript poems, stapled together with a purple cover, and handwritten title and number 3 on inside of front cover. Each poem has date at the bottom of the page. Poems are:

• Word of the explorers (April 1970); handwriten note at top in brackets: To Em. Prof. F.W.R.
• On some university lecturers (February 1959).
• Conceit upon pens (November 1966).
• Inscriptions, Granite Belt (May 1959).
• Holiday Haiku (August 1963).
• Open-air cinema (March 1970).
• Bigfoot territory (February 1969); 2 leaves; at top of poem "On the trail of a gaint," by Albert S. Hunter, Herald, Sat. 22. ii.69.
• Frontier incident (February 1962).
• Armistice Day, 1966 (November 1966); title has '1966' crossed through.
• June 1970 (undated).
• Evening in Society, Port of Spain (March 1969).
• Brown Ellen (January 1970).
• Women's ward (October 1967).
• These many deaths (April - August 1970); handwritten note at top of page: Coffee with Jill (Farrar) Morris.
• Talking of people (April 1970); handwritten note at top of page in brackets: to D.M.
• Caution for an English February (February 1962).

Booklet, twelve leaves, comprised of twelve typescript poems, stapled together with a green cover, and handwritten title and number 7 on the inside front cover. Each poem has date on the page. Poems are:

• Centipede (March 1971).
• The hand-loom (July 1970).
• The bush-fiddle (December 1960).
• Joy of the eye (March 1970).
• Witnesses (1963-February 1969).
• Horses to the sea : (a Romantic motif) (February 1970).
• The brown horseman : of the Arrezzo [sic] frescoes of Piero della Francesca (July 1962), with handwritten correction from Arrezzo to Arezzo.
• A drawing by Diego Rivera (March 1965).
  *A painting of fruit, and Fabio away (undated).
• After a poetry seminar (June 1971).
• Yarding penultimates (May 1971).
• Perseus (November 1970).

Ten uncollected typescript poems by Judith Rodriguez from November 1961 to 1974? Originally in folder with title 'Poems (1959-1973). Folder discarded. Poems: The phoenix - a fancy (January 62); Girl student with long hair (November 1961); Listening and living (January 1962); Lullaby (July 1961); Riddle (August 1961), with handwritten addition; Getting home (April 1969), with handwriten emendations and note; Death notice : (I.M. Henry Escobar V., d. April 1969) (May 1969); Free-wheeling (June 1969), with hadnwritten annotations; William Arthur Furniston 1863-1879 (written 1973 or 4?); Essay on M.K. : One step too far - Skeltonics (undated), 2 leaves; Interstellar rendezvous : an exchange of poems (undated), with handwritten emendations.

Poems, published and unpublished, by Judith Rodriguez, most typescript, month and year of creation, some with publication details, some with handwritten emendations. Covers the years 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1985-1990.