Booklet stapled together with lightweight card cover with forty poems. Sticky taped to inside cover is a typewritten letter from Judith Rodriguez to her mother which says, in part: "It is a selection of poems made with you in mind..." Poems, with dates: To my mother, who loves and disagrees; Watching the wake; On journeying apart; The unforgiving clock; The poenix; Lullaby; The Cats; On the farewell gift of a jade ring; Landfall - the second city; The lovers; Indifference; Apology to the spectator; At Luciano's, Port of Spain; Betrayal; Looking at; Free-wheeling; For Hazim Abdullah (d. June 1963); Lesson in mime; Miscarriage; Names for children; Frontier incident; Evening in Society, Port of Spain; Armistic Day, 1966; The Pre-Cook; Party; Bigfoot territory; Caution for an English February; Quest; Word my oracle; The windy cock; Encounter; Listening and living; Tree-climbing in summer; Pine-grove; The bush-fiddle; Pages from a sketch-book, 1959: for Kate Manifold; Witnesses; A drawing of Diego Rivera; Grapefruit at lights out : (words for a design); and A painting of fruit, and Fabio away.

Poems, published and unpublished, by Judith Rodriguez, most typescript, some printouts from computer, most have handwritten month and year of creation, some with publication details, some with handwritten emendations.

Correspondence, notes, newspaper cutting related to the book by Judith Rodriguez The cold , published by the National Library of Australia in 1992 as part of the Pamphlet Poets Series. Original folder retained.

Correspondence, printouts of emails, contract with Picaro Press publication of poems in Wagtail magazine, 2007. Original folder retained.

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).