Box 10
Folder 1
Scraps of juvenalia and post juvenalia - notes of which are attached

‘What would you say’
A small piece of 1968 reminiscence.
written in 1987

‘It's poster week’
Written in 1976.

‘Poeme en forme de la Gig’
parody of my friend and colleague Gig Ryan.
Written 1979

”Wayman 1966’
Poem about a high school friend.
Written circa 1969

‘A sonnett on why I am writing this sonnett’
My high school English teacher Bernadette Taylor dispaired of my essays. Concise they were not. She suggested i write a sonnet as a means of teaching myself the art of precision and brevity. I took this suggestion up as a dare. 1966

‘You can fornicate like crazy’
A high school satire inspired by the senior mistress exploding over the PA system about children eating fish and chips in newspaper on their way home. This piece won me vast applause as I read it everywhere to all ages and sexes in the school ground. 1965

‘On Monday I watch’
A verse satire from 1961. Inspired by Stan Freberg probably. Meant to be a calypso like his 'Television television / I'm a sick of looking at television' performed throughout the school ground and class room

‘An offer we couldn't refuse’.
1976 poem about the Springvale Necropolis.
Written whilst doing Dip Ed

‘Yes, you can bake a pie’.
Poem for my friend Ethel Tilligers' wedding 1989. Its doubtful that most of the references can be grasped

‘Or Lovelock and the children’.
Serious poem from 1968 or 1969 was read to great applause at La Martha.

‘The Wine maker’
1968 or 1969. John Scott's parody of me.
‘or Jane’

1977. Part of an abandoned piece based on the life of the friend the late Greg St John. A high school teacher. (The Months in the Country)

Folder 2
Original folder titled ‘Early poems’

Folder 3
Original folder titled ‘Drafts of Out Here’

Folder 4
Original folder titled ‘Drafts of Evensong, Still talking about jazz, Poem for Melanie’

Folder 5
Original folder titled ‘You can dine out forever (complete)’

Folder 6
Original folder titled ‘Drafts of You can dine out forever’

The Nightmarkets

Folder 7
Folders titled ‘Prologue’, ‘Bistro Variations’ and ‘Sue’s Monologue’

Folder 8
Folder titled ‘Early unassignable drafts’

Box 11
Folder 1
Plans

Folder 2
Plans for Prologue

Folder 3
Plans for Chapter 1

Folder 4
Plans for chapter 2

Folder 5
Plans for Chapter 2 – Sue Dobson

Folder 6
Plans for Chapter 2
Folder 7
Plans for Chapters 4 – 9

Folder 8
Plans – critiques by others

Box 12
Folder 1
Folder titled ‘Chapter 2’

Folder 2
The Bistro variations – Drafts
2,2 – 2,16

Folder 3
The Bistro variations - Drafts
2,17 – 2,29

Box 13
Folder 1 - 9
Folders titled ‘Chapter 3’

Box 14
Folder 1
Folder titled ‘Chapter 4’

Folders 2 and 3
Folders titled ‘Chapter 5’

Box 15
Folder 1
Folder titled ‘Chapter 6’

Folder 2 - 6
Folders titled ‘Chapter 7’

Folders 7 - 10
Folders titled ‘Chapter 8’

Box 16
Folders 1 - 2
Folders titled ‘Chapter 9’

Folder 3
Folder titled ‘Notables’

Folder 4
Folder titled ‘Holding File’

Box 17
Abandoned work
Folder 1
Folder titled ‘Drafts from works now abandoned’

Folder 2
Folder titled ‘Drafts of ‘A poem of chance’ and ‘Choice : an abandoned sequence’

The lovemakers

Folder 3
Folder titled ‘Drafts for ‘Nothing but thunder’ [Part 9 of The Lovemakers] – multiple drafts and versions’ [part 1]

Folder 4
Folder titled ‘Drafts for ‘Nothing but thunder’ [Part 9 of The Lovemakers] – multiple drafts and versions’ [part 2]

Folder 5
Folder titled ‘Drafts for ‘Nothing but thunder’ [Part 9 of The Lovemakers] – multiple drafts and versions’ [part 3]

Box 18
Folder 1
Drafts for the only poem completed since the last batch, though I have been at work on many pieces which will go into my work in progress 'The Lovemakers' As this piece 'Bernie & Jack, Lindsay & Karl' will

Folders 2 - 4
Drafts for ‘The Lovemakers’

Box 19
Folders 1 – 5
Chapters of ‘The Lovemakers’

Box 20
Folder 1
Part one
Jack’s Progress (i)
Cross QC : Three Villanelles
Folder 2
Part two
Catholics for Friends (i)
Folder 3
Part three
A Lecture in Love
Folder 4
Part four
Catholics for Friends (ii)

Box 21
Folder 1
Part four
‘His Majesty Prince Jones smiled as he moved amongst the crowd’ 1971
Folder 2
Part five
Under14 / Under 16 : the Shane Price Recollections
Folder 3
Barb at Dot’s Wedding
Folder 4
Auntie Wynne at Barb’s Wedding
Folder 5
The Age of ‘Cowboy’ Neale
Folder 6
Radio Chook Raffle (i)
Folder 7
Part six
Lovelife (i) Barb
Folder 8
Lovelife (i) Vivienne, or Seeing Other People / Claire and Claire’s Poet / The Phil Price Limericks

Box 22
Folder 1
Part six
Lovelife (iii) Barb and Neil (i)
Folder 2
Lovelife (iv) Barb and Neil (ii)
Folder 3
Part seven
Non in spatio sed in muneribus capitus
Folder 4
Part eight
Sophie

Box 23
Folder 1
Part nine
On the Rice Trail : Mr A Cruises North
Folder 2
Holding the Drug Czar’s Hand
Folder 3
Part eleven
Night Jasmine
Folder 4
Making the World Revolve (i)
Folder 5
Group Portrait with Benny and Wal
Folder 6
Part twelve
Mister Kim Lacy

Box 24
Folders 1 - 3
Part thirteen
Stubbsy : a Success

Folders 4 - 5
Gibb’s Coast-to-Coast

Box 25
Folder 1
Part fourteen
Making the World Revolve (ii)
Folder 2
The Kid, The Baron, Mr A and The Alien Await the Mini-series
Folder 3
Bring on the Gerentiphiles!
Folder 4
Someone to make us Feel Happy

Box 26
Folder 1
Part fifteen
'There are strange things happening every day'
Folder 2
Part sixteen
The Horse!
Folder 3
Bunyip at Dave Price's Wake
Lovelife (vi) Barb and Neil (iii)
Folder 4
Jack's Progress
Folder 5
Catholics for Friends (iii)
Notes towards a summary of the life of Robert Langford, Leo in “The Lovemakers”.

Folder 7
The Lovemakers, volume one, final amendments, 13 Mar 2000

Folder 8
The Lovemakers, introduction to CD of readings from volume one, final text and notes

Box 27
Folder 1
Draft for ‘Group portrait with Charley and Wal’

Folder 2
Draft for ‘Though not for amateurs’

Folder 3
Drafts labelled ‘Finished’

Box 28
Folder 1
Drafts of prose novel, a fantasy satire on Melbourne football to be published in 1997
Published as Kicking in Danger [1]

Folder 2
Drafts of prose novel, a fantasy satire on Melbourne football to be published in 1997
Published as Kicking in Danger [1]

Folder 3
Drafts of prose novel, a fantasy satire on Melbourne football to be published in 1997
Published as Kicking in Danger [1]

Folder 4
Drafts of prose novel, a fantasy satire on Melbourne football to be published in 1997
Published as Kicking in Danger [1]

Folder 5
Drafts of prose novel, a fantasy satire on Melbourne football to be published in 1997
Published as Kicking in Danger [1]

'The Australian Popular Song Book'

Box 29
Folder 1
‘Australian popular song book’, typescript and handwritten notes

Folder 2
Poetry drafts for ‘Australian popular songbook’, typescripts and handwritten notes for; ‘Down under’, ‘It’s time, ‘Saturday girl’, ‘Tie me kangaroo down sport’, ‘Have you ever been to see King’s Cross’, ‘Walking the night alone’, ‘Woman you’re breaking me’

Folder 3
Poetry drafts for ‘Australian popular songbook’, typescripts and handwritten notes for; ’Bourke Street on Saturday night’, ‘On the road to Gundagai’, ‘Lime juice tub’, ‘Bound for South Australia’, ‘Bless this house’, ‘The never never’, ‘A brown slouch hat’

Folder 4
Poetry drafts for ‘Australian popular songbook’, typescripts and handwritten notes for; ‘Girls on the avenue’, ‘My old man’s a groovy old man’, ‘Come on Aussie’, ‘Who listens to the radio’, ‘The Argonaut’s song’, ‘Bound for Botany Bay’, ‘Goodbye Melbourne town’

Folder 5
Poetry drafts for ‘Australian popular songbook’, typescripts and handwritten notes for; ‘Old man emu’, ‘A world of our own’, ‘Ever lovin’ man’, ‘Brisbane to Beechworth’, ‘Just a suburban boy’, ‘I go to Rio’, ‘Eagle rock’

‘Unpublished?’

Folder 6
‘In the public sector: poems new and selected’, 1967-, typescript with handwritten amendments

Folder 7
‘Knox city: a ballad’, typescript and handwritten notes

Folder 8
‘Ballade for Alan Gould’, typescript and handwritten notes

Folder 9
‘The Barassi variations’, typescript and handwritten notes

Folder 10
‘Variations and fugue with minimal theme’, typescript and handwritten notes

Folder 11
‘Ascot Vale 1972’, typescript and handwritten notes

Folder 12
‘Christmas Day, 1970’, typescript and handwritten notes

Folder 13
‘Chloe variations’, typescript and handwritten notes

Folder 14
’Seventeen Illawarra couplets’, typescript and handwritten notes

Folder 15
‘Santamaria’s major crime’, typescript and handwritten notes

Folder 16
‘Hurstville’, typescript and handwritten notes

Folder 17
‘Ascot Vale 1953’, typescript and handwritten notes

Box 30

Folder 1
Handwritten title on folder: 3 Young H.S.Teachers (with other handwritten annotations)

Poem ‘A Portrait of Three Young High School Teachers’ (2 leaves typescript)
Notes headed ‘Three young women’ (1 leaf handwritten)
Draft and notes headed ‘A Portrait of 3 Young Teachers’ (1 leaf handwritten)
Draft and notes headed‘A Portrait of 3 Young Women Teachers’ (1 leaf handwritten)
Draft and notes headed ‘A Portrait of Three Young High School Teachers’ (8 leaves handwritten)
Another version draft and notes headed ‘A Portrait of Three Young High School Teachers’ (3 leaves handwritten)
Another version draft and notes headed ‘A Portrait of Three Young High School Teachers’ (3 leaves handwritten)

Folder 2
Handwritten title on folder: Splenetic Polemic (with other handwritten annotations)

Poem ‘Splenetic Polemic’ (1 leaf typescript)
Draft and notes for [‘Splenetic Polemic’] (5 leaves handwritten)
Notes for [‘Splenetic Polemic’] (3 leaves handwritten)

Folder 3
Handwritten title on folder: The Vanity of Australian Wishes

Drafts and notes of poem The Vanity of Australian Wishes (approx 450 leaves of typescript with handwritten annotations, with many pages handwritten)

Entry from Australian Dictionary of Biography – Online Edition for Stanley Korman
(2 leaves webpage printout)
Entry from Australian Dictionary of Biography – Online Edition for Shirley Brifman (1 leaf webpage printout)

Folder 4
Handwritten title on folder: Galipoli 2005

Poem Galipoli 2005 (1 leaf typescript)
Drafts and notes of poem Galipoli 2005 (6 leaves handwritten)

Folder 5
Handwritten title on folder: Sarsparilla: a Calypso Back of folder is labelled Mark Elliott (with other handwritten annotations)
Poem Sarsparilla: a Calypso (2 leaves typescript)
Draft and notes for poem Sarsparilla: a Calypso (27 leaves handwritten)

Handwritten title on folder: ‘Bad Habits’ (with other handwritten annotations)
Poem ‘Bad habits’ (1 leaf typescript)
Attached to:
Drafts and notes for poem ‘Bad habits’ (12 leaves handwritten)

Handwritten title on folder: Poem for Cathy Coleborne (with other handwritten annotations)
Poem ‘Poem for Cathy Coleborne’ (3 leaves typescript)
Draft and notes for Poem for Cathy Coleborne (9 leaves handwritten)
Drafts and notes for Poem for Cathy Coleborne (38 leaves handwritten)

Folder 6
Handwritten title on folder: ‘Freely and with appropriate sense of space Dreams: lived, dreamt and composed for Ken Bolton’ (with other handwritten annotations)
Prose ‘Freely and with appropriate sense of space Dreams: lived, dreamt and composed for Ken Bolton’ (3 leaves typescript with handwritten annotations)
Prose ‘Freely and with appropriate sense of space Dreams: lived, dreamt and composed for Ken Bolton’ (2 leaves typescript with handwritten annotations)
Drafts and notes for ‘Freely and with appropriate sense of space Dreams: lived, dreamt and composed for Ken Bolton’ (11 leaves handwritten)

Handwritten title on folder: Wilbur and Ballade of and for Kevin Sheedy
Poem ‘Ballade of and for Kevin Sheedy’ (1 leaf typescript)
Poem ‘Ballade of and for Kevin Sheedy’ (1 leaf typescript)
Attached to
Drafts and notes for ‘Ballade of and for Kevin Sheedy’ (9 leaves handwritten)
Handwritten title on folder: Neutral Bay (with other handwritten annotations)
Poem Neutral Bay (1 leaf typescript)
Poem Neutral Bay (1 leaf typescript with handwritten annotations)
Drafts and notes for Neutral Bay (11 handwritten leaves)

Handwritten title on folder: Howzat (with other handwritten annotations)
Poem Howzat (1 leaf typescript)
Drafts and notes of Howzat (8 leavesf handwritten )

Folder 7
Handwritten title on folder: ‘The God of Nope’

Poem ‘The God of Nope’ (4 leaves typescript)
Attached to
Drafts and notes for ‘The God of Nope’ (5 leaves typescript with handwritten annotations and 3 leaves handwritten)
Drafts and notes for ‘The God of Nope’ (4 leaves typescript)
Attached to
Drafts and notes for ‘The God of Nope’ (5 leaves typescript)
Attached to
Drafts and notes for ‘The God of Nope’ (3 leaves typescript with handwritten annotations)
Attached to
Drafts and notes for ‘The God of Nope’ (1 leaf typescript with handwritten annotation and 1 leaf handwritten)
Poem ‘The God of Nope’ (4 leaves typescript with handwritten annotations)
Attached to
Notes for ‘The God of Nope’ (2 leaves handwritten)
Draft and notes for ‘The God of Nope’ (1 leaf and 1 page handwritten)
Drafts and notes for ‘The God of Nope’ (25 leaves typescript, many with handwritten annotations and 119 leaves handwritten)

Folder 8
Handwritten title on folder: ‘Waiata Poi’ Alan Weane
Poem ‘Waiata Poi’ (1 leaf typescript)
Drafts and notes for ‘Waiata Poi’(5 leaves handwritten)

Handwritten title on folder: ‘Sian Gammie’s Roman-Illawarra Blues’
Poem ‘Sian Gammie’s Roman-Illawarra Blues’ (2 leave typescript)
Draft and notes for ‘Sian Gammie’s Roman-Illawarra Blues’ (2 leaves handwritten)

Handwritten title on folder: Ballade of Easy Listening April 1 or June 30
Poem Ballade of Easy Listening (1 leaf typescript)
Drafts and notes for Ballade of Easy Listening (6 leaves handwritten)

Box 31
Folder 1
Handwritten title on folder Chatswood: Ruth Nash Speaks and another folder inserted with handwritten title Bogle-Chandler (with other handwritten annotations)

Poem Chatswood: Ruth Nash Speaks (3 typescript leaves)
Another copy poem Chatswood: Ruth Nash Speaks (3 typescript leaves)
Draft copy poem Chatswood: Ruth Nash Speaks (3 typescript leaves with handwritten annotations)
Draft copy poem Chatswood: Ruth Nash Speaks (4 typescript leaves with handwritten annotations)
Draft copy poem Chatswood: Ruth Nash Speaks (3 typescript leaves with handwritten annotations)
Draft copy poem Chatswood: Ruth Nash Speaks (3 typescript leaves with handwritten annotations)
Draft copy poem Chatswood: Ruth Nash Speaks (3 typescript leaves with handwritten annotations)
Draft copy poem Chatswood: Ruth Nash Speaks (3 typescript leaves with handwritten annotations)
Draft copy poem Chatswood: Ruth Nash Speaks (2 typescript leaves with handwritten annotations)
Draft copy poem Chatswood: Ruth Nash Speaks (3 typescript leaves with handwritten annotations)
Drafts and notes for Chatswood: Ruth Nash Speaks (many handwritten leaves)
Inserted Bogle –Chandler folder:
Headed leaves: 30 Oct 2001The Bogle & Chandler Page (10 leaves web page printout)
Drafts and notes about Bogle Chandler for Chatswood: Ruth Nash Speaks (5 pages handwritten)

Folder 2
Handwritten title on folder: Monash Days

Prose ‘Were We Experienced? Monash and the Monash Poetry and Political Scenes 1967-71’ (21 leaves typescript)
Draft and notes [Were We Experienced? Monash and the Monash Poetry and Political Scenes 1967-71] (18 leaves handwritten)
Draft and notes [Were We Experienced? Monash and the Monash Poetry and Political Scenes 1967-71] (4 leaves handwritten)
[Were We Experienced? Monash and the Monash Poetry and Political Scenes 1967-71] (13 leaves typescript with handwritten annotations)
Draft and notes [Were We Experienced? Monash and the Monash Poetry and Political Scenes 1967-71] (25 leaves handwritten)
Draft and notes [Were We Experienced? Monash and the Monash Poetry and Political Scenes 1967-71] (22 leaves handwritten)

Folder 3
Handwritten title on folder: They Came to Moorabbin (with other handwritten annotations)

Poem ‘They Came to Moorabbin (Nance Conway 1923-1994)’ (4 leaves typescript)
Another copy poem ‘They Came to Moorabbin (Nance Conway 1923-1994)’ (4 leaves typescript)
Another copy poem ‘They Came to Moorabbin (Nance Conway 1923-1994)’ (4 leaves typescript with handwritten annotations)
Draft poem ‘They Came to Moorabbin (Nance Conway 1923-1994)’ (5 leaves handwritten)
Draft poem ‘They Came to Moorabbin (Nance Conway 1923-1994)’ (5 leaves handwritten)
Drafts and notes poem ‘They Came to Moorabbin (Nance Conway 1923-1994)’ (85 leaves handwritten)
Poem ‘escape’ (1 leaf typescript with handwritten annotations)
Drafts and notes poem ‘They Came to Moorabbin (Nance Conway 1923-1994)’ (59 leaves handwritten)

Folder 4
Handwritten title on folder: Memories of an EDFL…

Poem Memoirs of a Former Eastern Districts Football League Seconds Boundary Umpire (1 leaf typescript with handwritten annotations)
Draft and notes for poem Memoirs of a Former Eastern Districts Football League Seconds Boundary Umpire (4 leaves handwritten)

Handwritten title on folder: Anger Management: a South Coast Fable (with other handwritten annotations)
Poem Anger Management: a South Coast Fable (6 leaves typescript)
Another copy poem Anger Management: a South Coast Fable (6 leaves typescript)
Poem Anger Management: a South Coast Fable (6 leaves typescript with handwritten annotations)
Drafts and notes for poem Anger Management: a South Coast Fable (35 handwritten leaves)

Handwritten title on folder: Ciao Baby
Poem Ciao Baby (1 leaf typescript)
Poem Ciao Baby (1 leaf handwritten)
Drafts and notes for poem Ciao Baby (12 leaves handwritten)

Handwritten title on folder: A High School Staff Room, Melbourne’s Northern Suburbs, Winter 1977 (with other handwritten annotations)
Poem ‘A High School Staff Room, Melbourne’s Northern Suburbs, Winter 1977’ (1 leaf typescript)
Draft and notes for poem ‘A High School Staff Room, Melbourne’s Northern Suburbs, Winter 1977 (11 leaves handwritten)

Folder 5
Handwritten title on folder: Dysfunction, North Carlton Style or the Widow of Noosa (with other handwritten annotations)
Poem Dysfunction, North Carlton Style or the Widow of Noosa (4 leaves typescript)
Another copy poem Dysfunction, North Carlton Style or the Widow of Noosa (4 leaves typescript)
Draft poem Dysfunction, North Carlton Style or the Widow of Noosa (4 leaves with typescript annotations)
Draft and notes for poem Dysfunction, North Carlton Style or the Widow of Noosa (8 leaves handwritten)
Draft and notes for poem Dysfunction, North Carlton Style or the Widow of Noosa (35 leaves handwritten)

Handwritten title on folder: Breakfast with Darky (with other handwritten annotations)
Poem ‘Breakfast with Darky’ (4 leaves typescript)
Draft and notes for poem ‘Breakfast with Darky’ (30 leaves handwritten)
Gift voucher for a night accommodation for two with PO Box address on back (1 page typescript and handwritten)
Draft and notes for poem ‘Breakfast with Darky’ (33 leaves handwritten)

Handwritten title on folder: Young Aust.
Poem ‘All these young Australianists… for Imre Salusinszky’ (5 leaves typescript)
Poem ‘All these Young Australians: for Imre Salusinszky’ (5 leaves typescript with handwritten annotations)
Draft of section of ‘All these Young Australians: for Imre Salusinszky’(3 leaves typescript with handwritten annotations)
Draft of section of ‘All these Young Australians: for Imre Salusinszky’(3 leaves handwritten)
Drafts and notes for ‘All these Young Australians: for Imre Salusinszky’ (approx 75 leaves mostly handwritten with some typescript with handwritten annotations)

Box 32
Folder 1
Handwritten title on folder: Operation Hendrickson
Poem ‘Operation Hendrickson’ (21 leaves typescript)
Ligare book printers (3 leaves, 1 handwritten ‘with compliments’ leaf, 2 typescript forms)
Poem ‘Operation Hendrickson’ (22 leaves typescript with handwritten annotations)
Drafts and notes for poem ‘Operation Hendrickson’ (approx 375 leaves handwritten and typescript with handwritten annotations)

Folder 2
Handwritten title on folder: Ode(s)
Poem Ode: for Johanna Featherstone and Fiona Wright (1 leaf typescript)
Another copy poem Ode: for Johanna Featherstone and Fiona Wright (1 leaf typescript)
Draft and notes poem Ode: for Johanna Featherstone and Fiona Wright (2 leaves handwritten)
Another 8 copies poem Ode: for Johanna Featherstone and Fiona Wright (8 leaves typescript)

Box 33
Unpublished

Folder 1
‘Midnight in Vermont South, or Also Starring Bob Hawke as Himself’
44-page poem, typescript
Unpublished

Folder 2
14 draft states of ‘Midnight in Vermont South…’ comprised of ca. 800 pages of notes, handwritten drafts and heavily revised print-outs

Box 34
Folder 1
‘C-W-C 80th For Chris Wallace-Crabbe at Eighty’
Finished poem and 4 pages of drafts
Published

Folder 2
‘Memoirs of a Ceb’
12-page poem, typescript, with ca. 150 pages of evolving drafts from perliminary notes to annotaed printouts.
Published in: ‘Melbourne Subjective. An anthology’, 2014

Folder 3
‘Wild One – from the Posthumous Mempoirs of Johnny O’Keefe
Finished poem and 5 pages of drafts

‘Love is in the Air’
Finished poem and 17 pages of drafts

‘And the Band played Waltzing Matilda’
Finished poem and 9 pages of drafts

These three poems were published in: ‘Prepare the Cabin for Landing’, 2012

Folder 4
‘Amazing things, or an Essay upon the Future’
Finished essay, 5 pages and 36 pages of drafts

‘Forthcoming’ – ‘These Things are Real’ (2017)

Folder 5
‘They came to Moorabbin’
Poem, typescript, 9 pages and ca. 120 pages of dtafts

Folder 6
‘Waiting for the Viet Cong’
Poem, typescript, 8 pages, and ca. 120 pages of drafts

Folder 7
‘The Ballad of ’68, or I was Dransfield’s Dealer’
Poem, typescript, 3 pages, and 26 pages of drafts

Folder 8
‘Mixed Business’
Poem, typescript, 7 pages and ca. 160 pages of drafts

Folder 9
Drafts for four poems