Literary manuscripts, articles, publications, a small amount of correspondence.

Correspondence; draft manuscripts, photographs, and personal papers relating to James Devaney.

This collection contains published and unpublished manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and some prose pieces by John Blight, correspondence with individuals including Thomas Shapcott, Judith Wright, Bruce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.

Typescript and handwritten drafts poems from Tropical skiing, Stalin's holidays, The stunned mullet, Thin ice and other poems, and Collected poems 1970-1998, as well as drafts of other uncollected and unpublished poems; drafts of reviews of art and poetry; drafts of theses and essays; lecture notes; personal and literary correspondence; copies of publications including work by Forbes; work by other poets sent to Forbes for publication or comment.

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.

Working notes for a poem.

Postcard from Gwen Harwood to Rev. A. P. B. Bennie thanking him for his gift. Accompanied by two letters to Laurie McNeice, Fryer Library, (15 and 16 Nov 2006) from Jan Bennie with background information on her husband's friendship with Gwen Harwood.

Correspondence relating to literary awards, functions and festivals, publishers, anthology requests, eisteddfods; books of poetry collections; festival brochures and entry forms; photographs; literary magazines and newsletters; biographical statements; manuscripts of poems.
Bulk of papers 1970-1984.

Manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, photographs, correspondence.

Unrevised proof. Publication date February 18, 1970.