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- 1960-1982 (Creation)
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23 folders
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Judith Catherine Green born on 13 February 1936 in Perth, Western Australia. She attended the Ascot State School, Brisbane Girls' Grammar School, gained an Open Scholarship to the University of Queensland where she obtained first class honours in English, received her Master of Arts from Cambridge University. She met her first husband, Fabio Rodriguez while tutoring at Kingston University, Jamaica. They married in 1964 and divorced in 1981. In 1982 she married Thomas Shapcott. She has published numerous volumes of poetry, some illustrated by her own woodcuts. From 1979 to 1982 she was poetry editor for Meanjin and from 1988 to 1997 poetry editor with Penguin Australia. Judith Rodriguez has also co-written the play Poor Johanna with Robyn Archer and her libretto for the opera Lindy was performed at the Sydney Opera House in 2002. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Christopher Brennan Award and in 1994 received the Order of Australia for services to literature. Rodriguez died on 22 November 2018.
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Correspondence in the form of letters and postcards with various authors and poets. Notes and poems. Correspondence and course booklets regarding a poetry writing course tutored by Judith Rodriguez at Stott's Technical Correspondence College Pty Ltd., between 1973 to 1981. Correspondence with University of Queensland Press regarding Nu-Plastik Fanfare Red: And Other Poems. The folders within this box have been labelled by Judith Rodriguez, and most have handwritten annotations by her. Includes loose poems (typescript and handwritten), 1970 to 1982.
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- Letters from Walter Adamson, 1977 to 1978. [Box 11 Folder 6].
- Letters from M. C. Bradbrook, 1960 to 1977. [Box 11 Folder 7].
- Letters from Rex Cramphorn, 1978 to 1980. [Box 11 Folder 8].
- Letters from Margaret Diesendorf, 1978 to 1980. [Box 11 Folder 9].
- Letters from Yasmine Gooneratne, 1970 to 1982. [Box 11 Folder 10].
- Letters from Nancy Gordon, 1978. [Box 11 Folder 11].
- Letters and poems from Jamie Grant, 1970 to 1980. [Box 11 Folder 12].
- Letters from Irene Greenwood, 1976 to 1982. [Box 11 Folder 13].
- Letters from Helen Haenke, 1977 to 1979. [Box 11 Folder 14].
- Letters and notes from J. Gordon Hale. [Box 11 Folder 15].
- Letters and notes from Lolo Houbein, 1977 to 1978. [Box 12 Folder 1].
- Poems from A. Ghafar Ibrahim, 1974. Letter, 1979. [Box 12 Folder 2].
- Letters and poems from Sylvia Kantaris, 1980 to 1981. [Box 12 Folder 3].
- Letters and poems from Graeme Kinross-Smith, 1972 to 1973. [Box 12 Folder 4].
- Letters from Andrew Lansdown, 1979 to 1980. [Box 12 Folder 5].
- Letters and poem from Harold Love, 1961 to 1981. [Box 12 Folder 6].
- Letters and postcards from Pat Mitchell, 1980 to 1982. [Box 12 Folder 7].
- Letters from Kathleen Raine, 1961. [Box 12 Folder 8].
- Letters from Rochelle Ratner, 1976 to 1981. [Box 12 Folder 9].
- Letters from Philip Roberts, 1970 to 1979. [Box 12 Folder 10].
- Poetry writing course Stott's Technical Correspondence College Pty Ltd, 1973 to 1981. 1 Stott's pamphlet, 17 course booklets containing 24 lessons, original course outline and notes by other staff containing critiques of course, letter regarding Judith Rodriguez planning and teaching the poetry writing course. Pen drawing. [Box 12 Folder 11].
- Nu-Plastik Fanfare Red: And Other Poems, Aug 1971 to Mar 1973. Correspondence regarding publication of Nu-Plastik Fanfare Red: And Other Poems with University of Queensland Press. [Box 12 Folder 12]
- Poems, four, and partial works by Judith Rodriguez, 1982. These may have fallen out of correspondence folders? [Box 12 Folder 13].
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Box 11 Folders 6-15, Box 12 Folders 1-11.
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Previously housed as Box 5 Folders 38-59.
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Created, Linda Justo, 14-Mar-2022.