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| Manuscript Name | Papers of Andrew Sant |
| Manuscript Number | MSS 031 |
| Last Updated | August 2021 |
| Extent | 7 boxes + 2 oversize + 1 AV box |
| Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
| Abstract | Notebooks, literary drafts and correspondence |
Collection Subject Type
Literary
Scope and Content
This collection relates to Andrew Sant and includes items donated by Andrew Sant.
Date Range of Content
1977-2017
Biographical Note
Andrew Sant was born in London in 1950, moving to Australia with his parents in 1962. After completing a BA degree at La Trobe University in Melbourne, he worked in various jobs including teaching and copywriting. He moved to Hobart in the late 1970s. In 1979 he founded with Michael Denholm the literary magazine Island. He was co-editor until 1990. He has spent time as writer in residence overseas in various locations including the University of Peking, Leicester University, the University of Chichester and the University of London.
His first collection of poems was published in 1980. In 1989 he became a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council.
References:
Author record, Andrew Sant, Australian Poetry Library (https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/). [Retrieved 22/11//2018].
Administrative Information
Access and Copying Conditions
Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
Copying: Copying of material authored by Andrew Sant for private study and research is approved.
Preferred Citation
Papers of Andrew Sant, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 031, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
Provenance
The collection was donated by Andrew Sant in several instalments in 1987, 1990, 1993, 1997 and 2017.
Related Material
Special Collections holds a collection of material related to the literary magazine Island. Collection reference: Island Magazine, MSS 026.
Subject Keywords
Subjects
Poetry ; Australia
Personal Names
Sant, Andrew 1950;
Occupations
Poet, essayist.
Container List
Box 1
Notebooks and drafts
Folder 1
Three notebooks: 1977; 1978, 1979, 1981.
Folder 2
Three notebooks: 1979; 1980, 1980, 1981; 1982.
Folder 3
Two notebooks:1983.
Folder 4
Rejects 1978; Useful spares 1977.
First drafts of some published poems 1978.
Folder 5
Two notebooks: 1984, 1986
Folder 6
Two notebooks 1982.
Box 2
Manuscripts and correspondence
Folder 7
Poetry.
Folder 8
Manuscripts The Flower Industry and The Caught Sky
Folder 9
Correspondence received.
Folder 10
Correspondence received.
Folder 11
Paste ups The Caught Sky
Box 3
Manuscripts, notebook, drafts
Folder 12
Manuscripts: Brushing the Dark and ‘Preserves’
Folder 13
Poetry: notebook; handwritten and typewritten drafts
Folder 14
Manuscript Brushing the Dark; worksheets, handwritten and typewritten.
Folder 15
Publicity (personality) material: Peter Goldsworthy; Brian Matthews; Marion Halligan; David Foster; Robert Drewe; Kate Jennings; Elizabeth Jolley; Gillian Rubinstein; Fay Zwicky; John Forbes; James McQueen; Gwen Harwood.
‘Marigold and Marion’; Marion Halligan: manuscript.
Folder 16
Manuscript ‘Stocking the Cavern’ by Fay Zwicky.
Manuscript ‘Which Way Haberdashery’ by Kate Jennings.
Manuscript ‘Luke Spinoza the Philosopher’ by David Foster.
Folder 17
Manuscript ‘Work .... !!!’ by John Forbes.
Manuscript ‘Gainful Employment’ by Gwen Harwood.
Manuscript ‘A Body of Work’ by James McQueen.
Manuscript ‘Ask not for Whom the Bleeper Bleeps’ by Peter Goldsworthy.
Manuscript (two copies), ‘Scoops’ by Robert Drewe: draft and revised version.
Folder 18
Manuscript ‘The Passion and the Prose’ by Elizabeth Jolley.
Manuscript ‘Mediline and Literature’ by Peter Goldsworthy
‘Eating the Apple’ by Gillian Rubinstein.
‘Pioneering’ by Brian Matthews.
Folder 19
Toads edited by Andrew Sant: correspondence, notes, cover page etc
.
Box 4
Correspondence and notebooks
Folder 20
Correspondence
Letters and postcards received July 1985; August 1996, some undated, with attachments:
Jessica Anderson: letters, postcard, 1987 and undated
Judy Beveridge: letter, 1987
Peter Craven: letter, 1991
Helen Daniel: letter, 1988
Adrienne Eberhardt: letter 1996
Stephen Edgar: letters 1988; 1996 together with draft manuscript “Rhyme, Rhythm and Line:
Some Notes on Form in Poetry”;
Beverley Farmer – letter 1995
Sandra Forbes (Australia Council for the Arts): letters, 1991
8/11/91 with accompanying copies of letter from Brian Matthews regarding funding of Scripsi (7/11/91),
6/11/1991 Statement regarding Scripsi Application for 1992 Funding
7/11/1991 letter from Brian Matthews to Peter Craven, Editor of Scripsi
Copy of a letter to the Editor of the Melbourne Times in response to a published interview with Peter Craven regarding funding and Scripsi (4/11/1991)
Jamie Grant: letters, 1991;1995
Robert Gray: letters, 1988?;1996 and undated
Gwen Harwood: letter together withmanuscript “The richness of the commonplace”, 1992
Rod Jones: letter, 1987
Chris Koch: letter, 1985
Anthony Laurence: letter undated
Julie Lewis: letters, 1991
Les Murray: postcard, 1986
Jan Owen: letters and postcards,1985;1995
Peter Porter: aerograms, 1991
Cassandra Pybus: letter, 1993
Vicki Raymond: letter,1986 together withdraft manuscripts of Vicki Raymond’s poems
Intermissa, Venus, A sense of occasion, Ruby glass, and Rat year
Margaret Scott: 2 postcardsundated, postmarked 1992;1996?
Edith Speers: letter 1994
Folder 21
Letters received
Letters received from Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1978;1987
Letters received by Andrew Sant, 1981;1996 as follows:
Invitations to submit poetry 1981 to 1996
Responses to poetry submitted by Andrew Sant for publication 1981;1996, and undated
Invitations to review books, journals, assess manuscript submissions 1985;1993
Requests for permission to publish or use already published poems 1987;1995
Invitations to and thanks for participation in writing/poetry festivals; attend, speak or judge at poetry events; FAW; Australia Council Literature Board membership 1987;1989
Folder 22
Letters and postcards received from Sarah Day c1981–c1991
Folder 23
Responses to questionnaire sent by Andrew Sant to poets requesting information about poems they submitted to Effects of Light: the Poetry of Tasmania (1985), edited by Vivian Smith and Margaret Scott; nine responses dated 1983;84, some undated.
From: Jamie Grant, Roger McDonald, Philip Mead, JR Rowland, Vicki Raymond, Alan Alexander, Rod Moran, Barbara Giles, and John Griffin
Folder 24
Notebooks
One notebook – [1988?]
Comprised mainly of undated, edited poems handwritten in the notebook, and typed drafts inserted loosely. Handwritten poems in body of journal not listed.
Typed draft poems inserts only, with title variations: Afterwards/Lunch – The consequence – The doorknob in Berea Street – The envoy – Epistle to the owner – Excursion to Waiotapu – A guide to the volcano – Living with the sea – Memorial – Respecting the Americans – Small businessmen/Settling accounts – Travellers/The status quo – fragments of poems, untitled
Also contains draft correspondence; draft reviews; notes on a ‘Reading at Knopwoods with Morris Lurie and Tim Thorne’ (undated); draft reviews of The Gardens of Hell, ed by Peter O’Shaughnessy (insert)
Folder 25
One notebook; undated, [1989?]
Comprised mainly of undated, edited poems handwritten in the notebook, and typed drafts of poems inserted loosely. Handwritten poems in body of journal not listed.
Typed draft poems inserts only, with title variations:
Adolescents; Amongst the geysers; Carnival ; At Rickett’s Point/Shallows ; Away with the birds; Ballad of a one night stand ; Bluey ; Decorum/Arrival ; The doorknob in Berea Street ; Encounter ; Exposures ; Feeding the fur ;First taste ; Funereal ballad/Ballad/Live people strike (also version titled Sapper’s Broadside in notebook 1990;91) ; Home improvements ; Horizon bay ; Meetings (from Sea Lives); The mineral boom ; Netting ; New business; The promise ;Report of a badger; Respecting the Americans ; Revenant ; Revisiting football ; Rite of passage ; Sea lives (see also Meetings); The status quo ; Shifting furniture ; Suited ; The teacher; Transportation; Visitants ; With the Beatles ; Writer and implement/Paean for pencils/In praise of the pencil; fragments, untitled
Also contains letter from SMH with handwritten addendum by Geoffrey Dutton 23/03/1989; draft correspondence; handwritten notes on “Antarctica” (ABS radio play written by Andrew Sant); Brushing the Dark; and other miscellaneous writings
Folder 26
One notebook; 1989
Comprised mainly of handwritten edited draft manuscripts of poems (undated).
Also contains draft correspondence (one dated 16/12/1989); poetry notes; draft reviews; draft outline of children’s’ story; draft short story; miscellaneous writings
One notebook; 1990;1991
Comprised mainly of undated, edited draft poems handwritten in the notebook, also typed draft inserted loosely. Handwritten poems in body of journal not listed.
Loose leaf and typed draft poems inserts only, with title variations:
Coastal; Composure; Fire! Fire!; The flower meadow; For a birthday; Incendiary incident; Late summer passages; A night walk in the New Age; On seeing the removal of a meadow; Playground; Sapper’s broadside (also titled Funereal ballad/Ballad/Live people strike in notebook 1/1989); Seasonal; The singer in the band; Wish for my daughters.
Also contains draft book reviews; draft essay on subject of author Olga Masters; misc. writings
Box 5
Notebooks, literary drafts, miscellaneous papers and photograph.
Folder 27
One notebook; 1991
Comprised mainly of undated, edited draft poems handwritten in the notebook, also typed drafts inserted loosely. Handwritten poems in body of journal not listed.
Loose-leaf and typed draft poems inserted (some worked on both sides of sheet), title variations:
The conceit of glass; Days of incompletion; Echoes; Eclipse; Encounter; Etiquette; For Keith Floyd; For a returnee; Heat/Tame; Homage/Homage to the Cooks; In Bridle Lane; Locale; The males; Matter and the housekeeper; Night; A night walk in the New Age; On seeing the departure of a meadow; A personal library/Someone else’s books/In a library; The promise; The recipe book/Recipes; Remembering the chrysanthemums; Speed; Stepping stones; Tactic; Vocal/The talkers; Willows
Also contains draft correspondence; draft reviews; notes on stay in Australia Council owned studio in Venice, Italy; outline of poem idea in pencil on poetry launch invitation; other miscellaneous writings
Folder 28
One notebook – Undated (estimate mid 1980; early 1990s)
Handwritten note on front cover: ‘writing from experience, observation skills drafting, responses from others (indecipherable)’
Comprised mainly of undated, edited poems handwritten in the notebook, and typed drafts inserted loosely. Handwritten poems in body of journal not listed:
Typed poems inserted with title variations: Billabong; Black and white snaps; Bounty; Candlestick story/Candlestick/Candle holder; Curtains; Death and the householder; DIY; Erotica; A future reader/Absent third party; In concert; LPs; Mussolini’s umbrella; One life; Pets/The pet perspective; Plenty; Post;haste ;The prodigal names; Pumice; Elegy for the Queen’s head/The Queen’s head; Sahib; Sammy and his Mum.
Also contains handwritten draft correspondence from donor to Jamie Grant (notebook); Uni of Tasmania sheet advertising lecture in which donor takes part with handwritten notes on reverse (insert); handwritten list (insert).
Folder 29
Literary drafts; Poetry
Lives: Edited manuscript; accompanying letter from Angus and Robertson Publishers 9/2/88
Brushing the Dark: galley proof corrected by author; edited draft copy; Author’s questionnaire; Readers Report of Brushing the Dark by Philip Hodgins (undated); letters from Heinemann Publishers Australia 10/12/87;30/5/1989
The Flower Industry: proof copy (6/12/84), edited by author
Folder 30
The Album of Domestic Exiles; draft manuscript of poetry
Folder 31
Folder of poetry, all typed, undated edited drafts, some multiple drafts, title variations:
Adolescents; Amongst the Geysers; An Australian visits a Future Century; Backgrounds; Blotter;The building; Couples (see also Encounter) ; Days of the Novelist; Dentalia; Encounter; Denouement; A Family Tree; Feeding the Fur; From High Ground; Funeral Ballad; Hedgehog; Home Improvements /The Home Improver; In Concert; The Letter or (unable to decipher next word); Living with the Sea; The Manager, Beset by Process, Speaks; Man Washing; Memorial; The Mineral Boom; Netting; Notes on Arrival; Passage; Report of a Badger; Respecting the Americans; Sea Lives; Splits; Suburban Tortoises/Tortoises; Telephone; To the Sea; Traveller’ Tale; Usurper; Visitants.
6 sheets, untitled, incomplete
Poetry in manila folder, labelled ‘Rejects etc. most early/mid 90s’
From A FOSSIL RECORD: Museum Piece, The Dune, Palaeontology, The Inlet – short collection of poetry, typewritten, unedited
Folder 32
Literary drafts; Radio Play
Antarctica: The Imagined Continent – Correspondence concerning 5/1/84 – 6/3/86; typed edited draft manuscript; typed manuscript; copy of ABC script, edited by author; copy of ABC contract 17/1/85
Broken China poem by Sarah Day, typed, undated, unedited
Forest poem by Sarah Day, typed, undated, unedited
Miscellaneous papers
3 handwritten sheets, undated and unsigned; lists and contains comments on poems written by Andrew Sant
2 pages, undated and handwritten by Andrew Sant, draft review of a collection of poems by Stephen Edgar titled That Green Evening
1 page, typed, undated sheet listing contemporary poets and their professions, work roles, inserted in large group of unsorted, draft poetry by Andrew Sant
Letter to Andrew Sant from his father, 1 page, handwritten 11/11/89
1 page note from Katrina Graham (Arts for Australian. Australia Council letterhead) 6/10/ [no year]
2 letters from Iwayan Tiniggal, ‘Puri Saraswati” Bungalows, Bali 1987,1988
Folder 33
Photograph of Andrew Sant, black and white, undated
Box 6
Notebooks containing handwritten poems and typed drafts inserted.
Folder 34
1/ Drafts for Album of Domestic Exiles published1997.
Folder 35
2/ Drafts for Russian Ink published2001.
Folder 36
3/ Drafts for Russian Ink published 2001.
Folder 37
4/ Drafts for The Islanders published2002.
Folder 38
5/ Drafts for The Islanders published 2002
Folder 39
6/ Drafts for Speed &Other Liberties published2008
Folder 40
7/ Drafts for Speed &Other Liberties published 2008; Fuel published 2009
Folder 41
8/ Essays: On Marriage, On only Children, On Waltzing, written 2004
Book: How to Proceed 2015/2016
Speed and Other Liberties 2008
Fuel 2009
Folder 42
9/ Drafts for Fuel published 2009
Folder 43
10/ [envelope] Drafts for Fuel published2009
Box 7
Notebooks containing handwritten poems and typed drafts inserted. Correspondence.
Folder 44
11/ Drafts for The Lives and Times of the Islanders 2009; The Bicycle Thief & Other Poems 2013
Folder 45
12/ Drafts for The Bicycle Thief & Other Poems, 2013
Folder 46
13/ Drafts for The Bicycle Thief & Other Poems, 2013; How to Proceed, 2015/2016;Uncollected Poems 2017.
Folder 47
14/ Edited manuscript of How to Proceed, 2015/2016
Folder 48
15/ Drafts for The Bicycle Thief & Other Poems 2013; How to Proceed 2015/2016;Uncollected Poems 2017.
Folder 49
Correspondence 1980s-1990s
Folio items
Folder 50 [folio]
Brushing the Dark; page proofs, author’s galleys, master galleys.
Folder 51 [folio]
Toads, edited by Andrew Sant; galley proofs.