Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1940-2005 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1 box.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
John Miles was born in Kent, England in 1942, and grew up in South Australia. After completing high school he travelled in Australia and overseas for 17 years working at a variety of jobs. He has been publishing stories, poems, essays and articles in a number of mediums since the early 1980s. His book Lost angry penguins: D.B. Kerr and P.G. Pfeiffer: a path to the wind was published in 2000. He has been poetry editor for The Australian Writer and The Independent Weekly (Adelaide). He has also published poetry under the name John Arthur, including his 2007 work Harvest: the love poems.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1940-2005
Collection alternatively titled as: John Miles Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Contains correspondence and newspaper cuttings by and about the work of John Miles during his career as a writer and poet, and certificates and awards won by him. Includes material about D. B. Kerr, P. G. Pfeiffer and Colin Thiele collected by Miles while researching the book Lost angry penguins : D.B. Kerr & P.G. Pfeiffer : a path to the wind.
Most papers in the collection are photocopies.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Pfeiffer, P. G. (Paul Gotthilf), 1916-1945 (Subject)
- Kerr, D. B. (Donald Bevis), 1919-1942 (Subject)
- Thiele, Colin, 1920-2006 (Subject)
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Status
Migrated
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.