Guide to the Papers of Kevin Brophy [MSS 091]

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Manuscript Name Papers of Kevin Brophy
Manuscript Number MSS 091
Last Updated July 2021
Extent 14 boxes + 1 AV box
Location Special Collections, UNSW Canberra
Abstract Manuscripts, poem, and prose drafts, correspondence, audiovisual material, newspaper clippings, and research material relating to Kevin Brophy

Collection Subject Type

Literary

Scope and Content

The papers of Kevin Brophy comprise manuscript and typescript drafts of 1989 novel Visions, and 1982 novel Getting away with it. The papers also include poems and prose along with correspondence, miscellaneous papers, newspaper clippings, reviews, research materials, audiovisual material, and a thesis typescript

Date Range of Content

1973-1990

Biographical Note

Poet, essayist, and novelist Kevin Brophy was born in Melbourne in 1949 and studied at the University of Melbourne. His poetry has been widely anthologised and he has reviewed regularly for Reading Time along with authoring books of poetry, fiction, and essays. As well as teaching in the creative writing program at the University of Melbourne, Brophy has published study guides on contemporary fiction and is co-founder and co-editor of the literary journal Going Down Swinging.

References:
Austlit : Kevin Brophy 
www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A27910 retrieved 16 October 2020

 

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 If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items.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collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright.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: Limited copying of some material is approved

Preferred Citation

Papers of Kevin Brophy, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 091, Box [Number], Folder [Number].

Provenance

Material purchased from Kevin Brophy and received in four consignments from 1988-1992

 

Subject Keywords

 

Subjects

Kevin Brophy 1949- — Archives

Australian fiction — 20th century

Australian poetry — 20th century

Personal Names

Kevin Brophy 1949-

Corporate Names

Going down swinging

Occupations

Authors

Poets

Editors

 

Container List

 

Box 1

Folder 1         
Visions : correspondence
Exercise book with miscellaneous papers

Folder 2         
Early notes on ‘The move’
Mary’s correspondence

Folder 3         
Entry for third Angus & Robertson Writers Fellowship - original version

Folder 4         
Early version Getting Away With It published 1982

Folder 5         
Version of Getting Away With It

Folder 6         
1973 - some notes

Folder 7         
A short play plus bits and pieces of ‘Me and Myron [Lysenko?]’, 1973(?)

Folder 8         
1977 - February 1978

 

Box 2

Folder 9

January - September 1977

Folder 10      
February 1974 - August 1974

Folder 11

1974

Folder 12

December 1973 - March 1974

Folder 13

Notes - July 1974 to October 1976

Folder 14

Notes - July 1974 to October 1976

Folder 15

1987-1988 drafts

Folder 16

Visions edited by Philippe Tanguy 1988 - first 40 pages

 

Box 3

Folder 17

Early version of Visions

Folder 18

Story drafts 1984-1988

Folder 19

Story drafts 1984-1988

Folder 20

Correspondence from Myron [Lysenko?] 1973-1981

Folder 21

Stories - unedited manuscript - 1988

Folder 22

January - October 1980

Folder 23

Newspaper clippings:

‘Plague Odd’

‘The Sacred and Erotic Heart’

Folder 24

‘Merri Creek’ or ‘Nero’

 

Box 4

Folder 25

‘Post Modern Writing’ (photocopy)

Folder 26

Opus 1980-1981

Folder 27

Opus 1979

Folder 28

Opus 1979

Folder 29

Opus 1979

Folder 30

January - August 1979

Folder 31

1979?

Folder 32

Work September 1979 - January 1980

Folder 33

Early version of Getting Away With It

 

Box 5

Folder 34

Correspondence regarding submissions to publishers 1977-1980

Folder 35

Correspondence regarding submissions to publishers 1977-1980

Folder 36

I’ll do anything (script director)

Story versions workshop exercise 1986

‘Out of Line’ 1986

Folder 37

I’ll do anything

Folder 38

1986-1987

Folder 39

1986-1987

Folder 40

1986-1987

 

Box 6

Folder 41

The Clarion (strike paper)

Folder 42

Passing Show, the Press, Write Here Now, The Mirror

Folder 43

Time Off:

1-14 June [1979] – vol. 49 no. 6

July 1979 - vol. 49 no. 7

Australia

Melbourne Chronicle - January 1981

Play the recorder book 1 and book 2

Folder 44

The Bulletin 29 January 1980 - 100th year

Record on cover of Denpress items

Folder 45

Correspondence from Terry Harrington and Robert Habost, 1982-1988

Folder 46

Correspondence from Terry Harrington and Robert Habost, 1983-1987

 

Box 7

Folder 47

Edited manuscript of Visions

Folder 48

Thesis

Folder 49

Correspondence 1990

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 50

Correspondence 1990 (application for grant)

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 51

Correspondence 1990

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 52

Correspondence 1987-1990

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

 

Box 8

Folder 53

Correspondence 1989-1990

Press clipping

Poetry drafts

Drafts of reviews

Folder 54

File: Going Down Swinging no. 9

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 55

Correspondence 1988

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Drafts of reviews

Folder 56

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 57

File: ‘Small Mags Package’

Correspondence and articles relating to Small Press

Folder 58

Financial papers: bills, statements and invoice (personal and Going Down Swinging)

Grant applications forms

Folder 59

Correspondence 1988

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 60

Correspondence 1987-1988

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

 

Box 9

Folder 61

Correspondence 1987-1988

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 62

Correspondence 1987-1988

Drafts of reviews

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 63

Correspondence 1980-1989

Short story drafts
Poetry drafts

Folder 64

Manuscript of poetry ‘Thoughts of Martine’

Folder 65

Correspondence 1989

Press clipping - ‘Writing for Northcote’

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 66

Correspondence 1987-1989

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 67

Correspondence 1990-1991

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 68

Correspondence 1989-1991

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

 

Box 10

Folder 69

Correspondence 1990-1991

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 70

Correspondence 1991

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 71

Correspondence 1990-1991

Short story drafts

Folder 72

Correspondence 1990-1991

Poetry drafts

Folder 73

Correspondence 1990-1991 including material relating to Multiple Sclerosis

Folder 74

Correspondence 1986-1987

Draft of play

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 75

Correspondence 1987

Notes

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 76

Correspondence 1990

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

 

Box 11

Folder 77

Correspondence 1989-1990

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 78

Correspondence 1989-1990

Drafts of reviews

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 79

Correspondence 1987-1990

Draft of reviews

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 80

Correspondence 1990-1991

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 81

Correspondence 1989-1990

Short story drafts

Folder 82

Correspondence 1989-1990

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 83

Correspondence 1989-1990

Short story drafts

Folder 84

Correspondence 1986-1989

Short story drafts

 

Box 12

Folder 85

Correspondence 1988-1989

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Folder 86

Correspondence 1988-1989

Short story drafts

Poetry drafts

Drafts of reviews

 

Box 13

Folder 87

Correspondence

One letter, dated 16 November 1986, and two postcards from 1986

Folder 88

Newspaper clippings

Washington Post, ‘The man New York drove to death’, The Age, 3 July 1981;

Robert Thomson, ‘‘Left-over workers’ give China a headache’, [uncited newspaper, 1986];

Alex Dobes, ‘Snapshots of China’, Farrago, vo. 65, no. 7, 2 June 1986;

Lucy Charlesworth, [title missing and uncited newspaper], 3 June 1986;

Robert Thomson, ‘Beijing plays a new party game’, The Age, 16 August 1986;

Nien Cheng, ‘Torture by Mao’s brutal Red Guards’, The Weekend Australian, 16-17 August 1986;

Robert Thomson, ‘Year of truth: reform versus ideology’, The Age, 6 January 1987;

Ron Carter, ‘After undergoing tortures of Wang, the Chinese can win at a walk’, The Age, 8 January 1987;

Janet Hawley, ‘Inside New China’, The Age, 10 January 1987;

Robert Thomson, ‘The nervous thoughts of China’s rebel students’, The Age, 15 January 1987;

Maureen Bang, ‘My favourite chair’, The Age, 7 June 1988;

Dorinda Elliott, ‘Encounter on the Urumqi-Beijing express’, Reader’s Digest [undated];

‘The Face’ [uncited, undated newspaper]

Folder 89

Literary drafts

‘Masterpiece and other stories’ – draft manuscript, 173 pages with annotations

Folder 90

Literary drafts

Untitled draft manuscript prefaced by list of short stories, 132 pages with annotations

Folder 91

Literary drafts

Untitled draft manuscript, 134 pages with annotations

Folder 92

Literary drafts

‘Chapter Five: “China for the Chairs”’, typed manuscript

Folder 93

Literary drafts

Untitled draft manuscript, 168 pages with annotations

 

Box 14

Folder 94

Literary drafts

Untitled draft manuscript, 89 pages with annotations

Folder 95

Literary drafts

Untitled draft manuscript, China holiday, with diary dates, 5 November 1986 – 11 December 1986

Folder 96

Literary drafts

Untitled draft manuscript, unpaginated with annotations

Folder 97

Literary drafts

Untitled draft manuscript, 19 pages with annotations;

Typed and handwritten drafts and notes with annotations

Folder 98

Literary reviews

Draft manuscripts for reviews of prose and poetry books written for both younger and older readers, mainly late 1980s

 

Box 15

Audiovisual material

AV1

Audio cassette  -  Tape One, Reader 1, 1989;

AV2

Copy  - Audio cassette  -  Tape One, Reader 1, 1989;

AV3

Audio cassette  -  Tape One, Reader 2, 1989;

AV4

Copy  - Audio cassette  -  Tape One, Reader 2, 1989;

AV5

Audio cassette  -  Tape One, Reader 3, 1989;

AV6

Copy  - Audio cassette  -  Tape One, Reader 3, 1989;

AV7

Audio cassette  -  Tape One, Reader 4, 1989;

AV8

Copy  - Audio cassette  -  Tape One, Reader 4, 1989;

AV9

Audio cassette  -  Tape One, Reader 5, 1989;

AV10

Copy  - Audio cassette  -  Tape One, Reader 5, 1989;

AV11

Audio cassette  -  Tape One, Reader 6, 1989;

AV12

Copy  - Audio cassette  -  Tape One, Reader 6, 1989;

AV13

Audio cassette  -  Tape Two, Reader 1, 1989;

AV14

Copy  - Audio cassette  -  Tape Two, Reader 1, 1989;

AV15

Audio cassette  -  Tape Two, Reader 2, 1989;

AV16

Copy  - Audio cassette  -  Tape Two, Reader 2, 1989;

AV17

Audio cassette  -  Tape Two, Reader 3, 1989;

AV18

Copy  - Audio cassette  -  Tape Two, Reader 3, 1989;

AV19

Audio cassette  -  Tape Two, Reader 4, 1989;

AV20

Copy  - Audio cassette  -  Tape Two, Reader 4, 1989;

AV21

Audio cassette  -  Tape Two, Reader 5, 1989;

AV22

Copy  - Audio cassette  -  Tape Two, Reader 5, 1989;

AV23

Audio cassette  -  Tape Two, Reader 6, 1989;

AV24

Copy  - Audio cassette  -  Tape Two, Reader 6, 1989;

AV25

Audio cassette  -  ‘Perception of Poetry 8/87’ (8187?);

AV26

Video tape  -  I’ll do anything