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| Manuscript Name | Papers of Billy Marshall Stoneking |
| Manuscript Number | MSS 119 |
| Last Updated | April 2022 |
| Extent | 39 boxes + 10 AV boxes + 4 oversize |
| Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
| Abstract | Drafts of manuscripts, correspondence, reviews, financial records, video and audio cassette tapes, notes, posters, and photographs relating to the works of Billy Marshall Stoneking |
Collection Subject Type
Literary
Scope and Content
The papers of Billy Marshall Stoneking include correspondence with poets and editors, scripts, promotional material, and drafts of works such as Lasseter: the making of a legend, Sixteen words for water, Stringer, Singing the snake, The dreaming place and Taking America out of the boy. Audiovisual components comprise material relating to Call it poetry tonight as well as archival footage, audio recordings, and videocassettes
Date Range of Content
1970-1996
Biographical Note
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Marshall_Stoneking
William Marshall Stoneking, also known as Billy, was an Australian-American writer, producer, poet and playwright. From 1978 to 1983, he lived and worked at Papunya Aboriginal Settlement, Northern Territory) where he collected and published stories and other materials in the local dialect (Pintupi/Luritja) for use in the Papunya outstations' bilingual reading programme. A graduate of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Marshall Stoneking has written many plays, radio-plays and screenplays, including Lasseter: The Making of a Legend (1985). He has been very active in performance poetry, and has published several collections of poetry, novels and an 'auto-fictography', Taking America out of the Boy (1993). His poetry has appeared in journals such as Overland, Southerly, Northern Perspective, Phoenix Review, Prism International.
References:
Billy Marshall Stoneking, https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A47219?mainTabTemplate=agentAwards, AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), St Lucia: The University of Queensland, 2002- Hyperlink retrieved 23 March 2021
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
Papers of Billy Marshall Stoneking, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 119, Box [Number], Folder [Number]
Subject Keywords
Subjects
Billy Marshall Stoneking, 1947-2016 — Archives
Poets, Australian — 20th century — Archives
Australian literature — Northern Territory — 20th century
Personal Names
Billy Marshall Stoneking, 1947-2016
Occupations
Poets
Authors
Playwrights
Container List
Box 1
Folder 1
Manuscript, Lasseter-The Making of a Legend, 1985
Folder 2
Screenplay, Sixteen Words For Water
Folder 3
Manuscripts; Trifecta - The Cup Trilogy, The Prize, The Rite, The Dream
Folder 4
Manuscripts: The Great Center Anthology, Virgin Press, Participation Press, Stories of Obed Raggett includes pencil drawings
Folder 5
Correspondence with Eric Beach
Folder 6
Manuscripts: Film treatments, Corroboree – 1985, Nosepeg – 1987, Koko Films Presentation – 1984, Lasseter – 1984, Brio Trio (including photograph), Don’t Take Your Love To Town - 1983
Folder 7
Poetry readings and papers
Correspondence, poems, and papers relating to Ivan McConchie
Folder 8
Television scripts: Baby 1985, The Doll 1985, Stringer 1987
Folder 9
Television scripts: Mission Impossible, The Clan
Box 2
Folder 10
Correspondence from various poets
Folder 11
Correspondence from Barrett Reid - Editor Overland
American correspondence
Folder 12
Correspondence with publishers and editors
Folder 13
Correspondence with various poets and writers
Folders 14-16
Early drafts of poetry
Box 3
Folder 17
Reviews and papers by and about Billy Marshall Stoneking
Folder 18
Manuscript, Singing The Snake, 1979-1988
Folder 19
Manuscripts; Below The Dreamtime – 1987, Below The Dreamtime – 1988
Folder 20
Draft, partially corrected, Below The Dreamtime, 1989
Folder 21
Fourth draft, Lasseter - The Making of a Legend, 1983
Folder 22
Manuscript, The Mountains Haven’t Moved
Folder 23
Correspondence
Correspondence, Lasseter
Folder 24
Manuscript, Speed of Darkness, published Greenhouse Press (May 1989)
Folder 25
First proof, Lasseter
Box 4
Folder 26
Don’t Take Your Love to Town, 1987
Folder 27
Correspondence with Patrick McCauley
Folder 28
Correspondence and papers relating to Neil Murray
Box 5
Folder 29
Correspondence
Folder 30
Notes
Folder 31
Manuscript, Singing the Snake
Folder 32
Manuscript, The Mountains Haven’t Moved also known as Singing the Snake
Folder 33
Manuscript, Below The Dreamtime
Folder 34
Manuscripts: The Sugar Factory, Corroboree, 1985 Pi O (pseudonym of Peter Oustabasidis), Mattoid Diary, various works
Folder 35
Correspondence
Folder 36
Script and promotional material for Call It Poetry Tonight, c1991
Box 6
Folder 37
Cue cards, Call It Poetry Tonight, c1991
Folder 38
Paper edit for rough cut, Call It Poetry Tonight, c1991
Folder 39
Dissolve list, shot list, notes, synopsis for a documentary film, Let’s Call It Poetry, c1991
Folder 40
Notes, final draft, Call It Poetry Tonight, c1991
Folder 41
Notes, Call It Poetry Tonight, c1991
Folders 42-43
Script, Call It Poetry Tonight, by Billy Marshall Stoneking, Pi O (pseudonym of Peter Oustabasidis), and Nigel Roberts, 1991
Folder 44
Promotional posters, notes, annotated draft, Call It Poetry Tonight material, 1991
Box 7
Folder 45
Rehearsal draft script, Call It Poetry Tonight, by Billy Marshall Stoneking, Pi O (pseudonym of Peter Oustabasidis), and Nigel Roberts, 1991
Notes, drawings, promotional material, newspaper clippings, Call It Poetry Tonight
Folder 46
Notes, correspondence, promotional material, Call It Poetry Tonight [file entitled Performance Poetry Project for 1991]
Folder 47
Script, rehearsal draft, Call It Poetry Tonight, by Billy Marshall Stoneking, Pi O (pseudonym of Peter Oustabasidis), and Nigel Roberts, 1991
Script, penultimate draft, Call It Poetry Tonight, by Billy Marshall Stoneking, Pi O (pseudonym of Peter Oustabasidis), and Nigel Roberts, 1991
Folder 48
Notes, promotional material, poetry drafts, resumes, photograph, Call It Poetry Tonight, 1991
Folder 49
Notes, typed and pasted draft pages, Call It Poetry Tonight, 1991
Folder 50
Photographs of performers by Suzy Baldwin and Billy Marshall Stoneking Call It Poetry Tonight, 1991
Folder 51
Material sent to Edwin Field
Folder 52
Correspondence with Edwin Field
Box 8
Folder 53
Sixteen Words For Water by Billy Marshall Stoneking - manuscript of play
Folder 54
Sixteen Words For Water - annotated draft sections - 30 October 1990, 31 July 1991, and 30 July 1991
Folder 55
Sixteen Words For Water - annotated draft sections - 23 July 1991, 30 July 1991, and 31 July 1991
Folder 56
Sixteen Words For Water - first galleys from Angus & Robertson with notes and corrections
Folder 57
Sixteen Words For Water - second galleys from Angus & Robertson with notes and corrections
Folder 58
Sixteen Words For Water - photocopy manuscript, 19 July 1991
Folder 59
Sixteen Words For Water - manuscript
Folder 60
Sixteen Words For Water - master copy
Box 9
Folder 61
Sixteen Words For Water - draft master, 14 September 1989, corrected (Act one) 9 October 1989 - includes notes
Folder 62
Sixteen Words For Water - manuscript with Paul Thompson’s comments, 25 October 1990
Folder 63
Sixteen Words For Water - draft manuscript number 6 and Billy Marshall Stoneking promotional material
Folder 64
Sixteen Words For Water - draft manuscript number 7
Folder 65
Sixteen Words For Water - draft manuscript number 8, rehearsal draft, 11 February 1991
Folder 66
Sixteen Words For Water - draft manuscript number 9, rehearsal draft, 23 March 1991
Folder 67
Sixteen Words For Water - draft number 9, rehearsal draft, 23 March 1991
Folder 68
Sixteen Words For Water - draft manuscript number 10, rehearsal draft, 15 April 1991
Folder 69
Sixteen Words For Water - rehearsal draft number 11
Box 10
Folder 70
Sixteen Words For Water - draft manuscript number 12, rehearsal draft, 4 July 1991, Rhys McConnachie’s copy
Folder 71
Sixteen Words For Water - rehearsal draft, 4 July 1991 copy for Paul Thompson
Folder 72
Sixteen Words For Water - rehearsal draft, 4 July 1991, copy for Paul Thomson
Folder 73
Correspondence to Billy Marshall Stoneking regarding Sixteen Words For Water, 1989-1991
Folder 74
Correspondence to Billy Marshall Stoneking regarding Sixteen Words For Water, 1989-1991
Folder 75
Correspondence regarding Sixteen Words For Water, 1990-1991
Folder 76
Correspondence regarding Sixteen Words For Water, 1990-1991
Folder 77
Press articles about Sixteen Words For Water.
Folder 78
Publicity and cover designs for Sixteen Words For Water
Copy of published Sixteen Words for Water - A Play About Ezra Pound, Angus & Robertson, 1991
Box 11
Folder 79
Correspondence regarding Sixteen Words For Water, including sample of typeset page for book
Sixteen Words For Water - draft, 18 October 1990
Folder 80
Sixteen Words For Water - draft, 12 July 1991
Folder 81
Sixteen Words For Water - rehearsal draft, 10 July 1991, with annotations from 15 July 1991
Folder 82
Sixteen Words For Water - draft
Folder 83
Sixteen Words For Water - rehearsal draft, 23 March 1991
Folder 84
Sixteen Words For Water - draft, Act One
Folder 85
Sixteen Words For Water - draft
Folder 86
Sixteen Words For Water - draft, 1990
Folder 87
Sixteen Words For Water - working draft, October 1991
Box 12
Folder 88
Sixteen Words For Water - draft of Act One
Folder 89
Sixteen Words For Water - rehearsal draft, 15 April 1991
Folder 90
Sixteen Words For Water - draft rewrite, 6 February 1991
Folder 91
Notes for Sixteen Words For Water at the National Playwrights’ Conference Canberra 1990
Sixteen Words For Water - drafts
Folder 92
Sixteen Words For Water - draft
Folder 93
Sixteen Words For Water - drafts
Folder 94
Sixteen Words For Water - draft
Folder 95
Sixteen Words For Water - rehearsal draft, 4 July 1991, plus the Sydney Theatre Company List (cast, crew, dates)
Box 13
Folder 96
Sixteen Words For Water - draft, copyright 1989
Folder 97
Sixteen Words For Water - draft, copyright 1990
Folder 98
Sixteen Words For Water - draft, copyright 1987
Folder 99
Sixteen Words For Water - draft, 31 August 1989 with annotations
Folder 100
Sixteen Words For Water - manuscript, copyright 1990
Folder 101
Sixteen Words For Water - annotated draft plus handwritten notes
Folder 102
Sixteen Words For Water - manuscript, copyright 1990
Letter from Tom Thomson of Collins Angus and Robertson publishers to Billy Marshall Stoneking, 4 June 1991
Folder 103
Sixteen Words For Water - manuscript, copyright 1990
Box 14
Folder 104
Sixteen Words For Water - draft, annotated by Annie Marshall, 27 October 1990
Folder 105
Sixteen Words For Water - manuscript, final master copy printed 6 June 1990
Folder 106
Sixteen Words For Water - manuscript, copyright 1990. Handwritten notes and annotated draft pages
Folder 107
Sixteen Words For Water - annotated draft, rehearsal draft, 15 April 1991
Folder 108
Sixteen Words For Water - annotated draft, rehearsal draft, 15 April 1991
Folder 109
Sixteen Words For Water - draft presented at National Playwrights’ Conference, Saturday 28 April 1990
Folder 110
Sixteen Words For Water - rehearsal draft, 4 July 1991, annotated
Folder 111
Sixteen Words For Water - rehearsal draft, 21 June 1991, annotated
Box 15
Folder 112
Scripts for Fire in the Heart - first Singapore produced TV drama series, August to November 1990. Storylines episodes 5 to 15, by Keith Aberdein
Related correspondence
Sixteen Words For Water publicity material play tickets
Folder 113
Scripts for Fire in the Heart - first Singapore produced TV drama series, August to November 1990. Episodes 5 to 8 by Billy Marshall Stoneking.
Folder 114
Scripts for Fire in the Heart - first Singapore produced TV drama series, August to November 1990. Episode 1, final draft.
The Man From Jade Mountain episode 2, by Billy Marshall Stoneking
Folder 115
Miscellaneous material - poetry drafts, promotional material - Nimrod Theatre, Papunya
Copy of “Script and Project Ideas from The Writing Workshop”, copyright 1983
Folder 116
Lasseter (a screenplay), fourth draft, copyright 1983
Folder 117
Collection of Prose by Terry Whitebeach most of which have been published, 1986-1987
Folder 118
Copy of collection of poetry The Mountains Haven’t Moved by Billy Marshall Stoneking, drawings by Tutama Tjapangarti
Folder 119
Manuscript Don’t Take Your Love to Town, a treatment for a feature film by Billy Marshall Stoneking, Nigel Roberts and Ruby Langford
Manuscript Singing the Snake - Poems from The Western Desert 1979 to 1988, by Billy Marshall Stoneking, drawings by Tutama Tjangarti
Folder 120
1979 editions of Tjakulpa Aboriginal Magazine
Box 16
Folder 121
1979 editions of Tjakulpa Aboriginal Magazine
Folder 122
Correspondence arts promotional material, application for grant
Folder 123
Lasseter, scene breakdown
Poetry, drafts, and correspondence
Folder 124
Drafts of prose and poetry plus some newspaper clippings
Folder 125
Lasseter (a screenplay), plus notes and background material
Folder 126
Lasseter (a screenplay), plus notes and background material
Folder 127
Lasseter (a screenplay), plus notes and background material
Folder 128
Lasseter (a screenplay)
Box 17
Folder 129
Lasseter scene breakdown for second draft. Lasseter (a screenplay), copyright 1982 - related notes and material
Folder 130
Lasseter scene breakdown. Second draft; Lasseter (a screenplay), copyright 1982, copy number 4, first draft
Folder 131
Lasseter - ideas, handwritten notes, and newspaper clippings
Folder 132
Lasseter early draft titled Gold Fever - The Story of Lasseter’s Reef
Folder 133
Lasseter (a screenplay)
Folder 134
Lasseter - contracts, correspondence
Folder 135
Lasseter (a screenplay) - early drafts
Folder 136
Lasseter (a screenplay) - early drafts
Box 18
Folder 137
Lasseter (a screenplay) - early drafts
Folder 138
Correspondence mostly to Billy Marshall Stoneking, 1989-1990
Folder 139
Correspondence mostly to Billy Marshall Stoneking, 1989-1990
Folder 140
Taking America Out of the Boy autobiography by Billy Marshall Stoneking – manuscript pages, early drafts
Folder 141
Taking America Out of the Boy autobiography - manuscript pages, early drafts
Folder 142
Taking America Out of the Boy - manuscript pages, early drafts
Folder 143
Taking America out of the Boy - early drafts
Folder 144
Taking America out of the Boy - early drafts, 1986
Box 19
Folder 145
Taking America out of the Boy - manuscript, early drafts
Folder 146
Taking America out of the Boy - manuscript, early drafts
Folder 147
Taking America out of the Boy - manuscript, early drafts
Folder 148
Taking America out of the Boy - manuscript, early drafts
Folder 149
Sixteen Words For Water file - correspondence
Folder 150
Sixteen Words For Water file - correspondence
Folder 151
Correspondence, 1989-1992
Folder 152
Correspondence, 1989-1992
Box 20
Folder 153
Correspondence, 1989-1992
Folder 154
Handy Hints for Around the Home, Sky and Clouds II - magazine
Folder 155
Papers related to Billy Marshall Stoneking’s years as a schoolteacher - notes, essays, letters, 1970’s
Folder 156
Notes regarding Nosepeg’s Movie 1987
Final draft of Anyone can Work if they want To by Billy Marshall Stoneking and Terry Whitebeach, copyright 1992
Folder 157
Can Anyone Work if they want To? draft
Folder 158
The Dry - A Modern Day Detective Thriller by Christopher Lee, Billy Marshall Stoneking, and Steve Wright - draft, copyright 1989
Folder 159
Miscellaneous papers
Folder 160
Artwork and drafts of poems by Billy Marshall Stoneking
Script - After Midnight by Billy Marshall Stoneking
Box 21
Folder 161
All Shook Up a feature film script by Billy Marshall Stoneking - first draft, copyright 1990
Folder 162
All Shook Up a feature film script - first draft, copyright 1990
Folder 163
File - Spellbound - notes, cards, phone numbers
Folder 164
Early drafts of published poetry by Billy Marshall Stoneking
Copy of The Great Center Anthology edited by Billy Marshall Stoneking,
Dead Centre Vanity Press, 1979
Diary of Billy Marshall Stoneking - “Bali ‘74”
Folder 165
Prose and poetry drafts
Folder 166
Prose and poetry drafts
Folder 167
Journal and early draft of Lasseter
Folder 168
Correspondence from other writers, literary magazine
Folder 169
Draft 1 of Taking America out of the Boy, typewritten and annotated
Folder 170
Draft 3 of Taking America out of the Boy, typewritten and annotated
Box 22
Folder 171
Version 3 of Taking America out of the Boy - Final Manuscript, typewritten and annotated
Folder 172
Miscellaneous notes
Folder 173
Taking America out of the Boy, typewritten 1988
Folder 174
Sketch book title “Bookler by Maze Turner (R. Tipping’s wife) After visit to Papunya” 1980
Box 23
Folder 175
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, typewritten
Folder 176
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, typewritten, some annotated
Folder 177
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, typewritten, some annotated
Folder 178
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, typewritten
Folder 179
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, typewritten
Folder 180
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, annotated, typewritten
Folder 181
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, annotated, typewritten
Folder 182
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, annotated, typewritten
Box 24
Folder 183
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, annotated, typewritten
Folder 184
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, annotated, typewritten
Folder 185
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, annotated, typewritten
Folder 186
Taking America out of the Boy draft, copyright 1990, typewritten
Folder 187
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, annotated, typewritten
Folder 188
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, annotated, typewritten
Folder 189
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, annotated, typewritten
Box 25
Folder 190
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, typewritten
Folder 191
Miscellaneous pages of Taking America out of the Boy draft, annotated, typewritten
Folder 192
Taking America out of the Boy, copyright 1993
Folder 193
Taking America out of the Boy, copyright 1993.
Folder 194
Taking America out of the Boy, copyright 1993.
Folder 195
Correspondence to Billy from Mark Mordue, includes a Tom Waits’ interview. A story about Mark and Russel Guy, with Patrick McCawley Poetry
Folder 196
Manuscript Singing The Snake - Poems From The Western Desert, and illustrations by Tutama Tjapangarti, 1979-1988
Folder 197
Miscellaneous correspondence and notes
Box 26
Folder 198
Miscellaneous correspondence and poetry, and writings of various writers
Folder 199
Early draft chapters of Taking America Out Of The Boy
Folder 200
Miscellaneous correspondence, notes, and photographs
Folder 201
Miscellaneous correspondence
Folder 202
Miscellaneous correspondence 1989-1994
Folder 203
Miscellaneous correspondence including Grant Caldwell
Folder 204
Miscellaneous correspondence 1990-1994
Box 27
Folder 205
Miscellaneous correspondence and poetry
Folder 206
Miscellaneous correspondence and poetry
Folder 207
Correspondence from Anita Wilkins to Billy
Folder 208
Archive of American Poets Tour to Australia which led to the Australian Walkabout Tour
Folder 209
Miscellaneous poetry by Morton Marcus and Anita Wilkins
Folder 210
Newspapers referring to the Walkabout Tour
Folder 211
Photocopies of Newspapers on Walkabout Tour
Folder 212
Newspapers where articles were found
Folder 213
Newspaper on “Earth Drama Lab”
Folder 214
Photocopy of newspaper
Folder 215
Miscellaneous notes, some on Walkabout Tour
Correspondence from A. Whitebeach
The American Walkabout Tour, 1991
Box 28
Folder 216
Correspondence and notes mainly on The American Walkabout Tour
Folder 217
Correspondence and notes mainly on The American Walkabout Tour
Folder 218
Miscellaneous correspondence and notes
Folder 219
“American poems for proposed Australian/American anthology”, to Billy from Anita Wilkins.
Folder 220
“American poems for proposed Australian/American anthology”, to Billy from Anita Wilkins
Folder 221
“American poems for proposed Australian/American anthology”, edited by B. Marshall Stoneking, Nigel Roberts, and Morton Marcus
Folder 222
“American poems for proposed Australian/American anthology”, edited by Billy Marshall Stoneking, Nigel Roberts, and Morton Marcus
Box 29
Folder 223
Part of Kennedy Miller’s Bangkok Hilton. Billy was to play the DEA Officer which was later cut from the miniseries
Folder 224
Miscellaneous scripts and notes
Folder 225
Once Upon a Dreamtime (retitled Spirit Song), Anthology of Aboriginal writers. Published by Omnibus books and poems collected by Billy Marshall Stoneking
Correspondence
Folder 226
Spirit Song - A Collection of Aboriginal Poetry compiled by Lorraine Mafi-Williams, 1993
Anthology of Aboriginal writers and correspondence
Folder 227
Anthology of Aboriginal writers and correspondence
Folder 228
Anthology of Aboriginal writers and correspondence
Folder 229
Miscellaneous notes and correspondence
Box 30
Folder 230
“Residencies, Writer-in-Residence”. Positions, relevant publicity plus correspondence
Folder 231
Lasseter - narrative number 2
Folder 232
Lasseter film script, fourth draft, 1983
Folder 233
Lasseter film script, fourth draft, 1983
Folder 234
The Speaking Land, first draft by Billy Marshall Stoneking, 1993
Poetry by Patrick McCauley (Minutes of STC Writer’s Forum Meetings 1993-1994)
Call It Poetry Tonight
Folder 235
The Speaking Land, third draft minus part of last scene, 1993
Notes on rewritten sections of The Speaking Land
Folder 236
Jangala, the Songman, third rough with revisions incomplete
Jangala, the Songman first rough with revisions incomplete
Box 31
Folder 237
Jangala, the Songman, second rough, early incomplete draft with revisions
The Dreaming Place, final draft, 1993
Folder 238
The Singing Land, draft with corrections
Jangala, The Songman, scene nine and miscellaneous parts of script
Folder 239
The Singing Land, fourth draft, 1993
Jangala, The Songman script Director’s copy with notes from director and actors
Folder 240
The Speaking Land, second draft, 1993
The Singing Land, scene one
Folder 241
The Speaking Land, third draft, 5 July 1993
The Speaking Land, second draft, 1993
Folder 242
Miscellaneous pages of The Speaking Land script, first draft, annotated, 1993
Folder 243
Miscellaneous notes and correspondence
Calendar produced at Papunya Bilingual Resource Development Centre
Folder 244
Majic Sam (book of poems by various poets)
Correspondence from Morton Marcus to Billy
Folder 245
Photographs of illustrations for children’s book by Anne Marshall (Billy’s wife)
Box 32
Folder 246
Correspondence
1970s-1980
17 October 1973 – 17 December 1979, with subset consisting of undated letters
17 March,1980 – 23 December 1980, with subset consisting of undated letters
1981
3 March 1981 – 14 December 1981, with one undated letter
1982
16 May 1982 – 2 November 1982, with subset consisting of undated letters
1983
3 February 1983 – 29 September 1983, with one undated letter
1984-1987
17 July 1984 – 2 June 1987
Folder 247
Correspondence
1988-1991
6 April 1988 – 6 November 1991
1992
3 February 1992 – 17 December 1992, with subset consisting of undated letters
1993
5 February 1993 – 13 December 1993, with one undated letter
1994
11 February 1994 – 16 November 1994, with one undated letter
1995-1996
28 February 1995 – 11 December 1996, with subset consisting of undated letters
Folder 248
Correspondence
1997
4 February 1997 – 17 March 1997, with one undated letter
1990s – Specified
Grant Caldwell, 13 October – 14 November 1994
Overseas Correspondence, 16 May 1989 – 11 March 1996, with subset consisting of undated letters
Hastys in Mexico, 1 March 1994 – 22 February 1996, with subset consisting of undated letters
Letters – Christina Conrad, 6 September 1993 – 30 July 1996
Folder 249
Correspondence
1990s – Specified
Australia – Poets/ Theatre Companies… [Part 1], 30 October 1989 – 4 June 1996, with subset consisting of undated letters
Australia – Poets/ Theatre Companies… [Part 2], 27 March 1991 – 10 July 1996, with subset consisting of undated letters
‘Idols Behind Altars’, 30 August 1993 – 17 June 1996
‘Sixteen Words for Water’, 4 November 1992 – 30 October 1995
Box 33
Folder 250
Correspondence
1990s – Specified
Correspondence - πO [Australian poet’s name], 1995 – 1996
All other undated letters; divided into typed and handwritten correspondence
Folder 251
Diaries and Notebooks
Collins 1985 Diary, with inserted notes, jottings
Artrite 320-page exercise book: ‘Billy Marshall Stoneking Notes for Mexican Play’
Artrite 128-page exercise book: ‘Notes – The Mexican Play Billy Marshall Stoneking’
Folder 252
Newspaper Articles
Prue MacSween, ‘Top talent in new Aussie firm’, TV Week, 30 August 1986
‘Letters show who took Ezra Pound to Task’ [Book Review], 1986
Carolyn McDonald, ‘Attila the Stockbroker’, Beat Magazine, 4 December 1991
Geoff Dyer, ‘The Paperbark Tree: Selected Prose’, The Guardian, 13 October 1992
Marjorie Miller, ‘Mexico: Fare way to hell on wheels’, The Age, 10 April 1993
Shane Jenkins, ‘Alternative mainstream’, Brunswick Sentinel, 6 September 1993
Tony Squires, Bryan Brown: Sure Thing’, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 March 1995
Diane di Prima, ‘A Poet’s Take on Life and Learning’, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 May 1996
Jacqui MacDonald, ‘Arnie’s film muscled in on my idea, says local writer’ [undated, newspaper not identified]
Sally Cloke, ‘Verse at the Perse’ [undated, newspaper not identified]
Sheaf of photocopied newspaper/magazine articles sent by Jenny Sheard
Folder 253
Personal Documents
Sacramento State College Blue Book, 5 November 1970
Humanities 1974
1969 Cordova Senior High School Graduate 20-year Reunion (1989?)
Horoscope and Time Map, 1990
‘Schools/Teachers/Places/Events – Billy Marshall Stoneking’, 1995
Folder 254
Literary Drafts
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, first draft, 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, second draft, 1995, with corrections
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, third draft, 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, fourth draft, 1995
Box 34
Folder 255
Literary Drafts
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, fourth draft with notes towards a fifth draft, May 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, fifth draft
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, sixth draft, 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, seventh draft, 1995
Folder 256
Literary Drafts
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, eighth draft, 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, ninth draft
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, ninth [?] draft complete, 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, ninth draft: ‘final draft in this version / format. Changed to USA format on 26.9.95’
Folder 257
Literary Drafts
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, tenth draft, 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, eleventh draft, 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, twelfth draft copy, 1995
Box 35
Folder 258
Literary Drafts
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, fourteenth draft copy, Master Copy (USA version), 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, fifteenth draft copy, 10 November 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, eighteenth penultimate draft copy, 1996
Folder 259
Literary Drafts
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites 17 April 1996, towards draft 18
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, final draft ,12 June 1996
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, first draft, screenplay version, 1995
Folder 260
Literary Drafts
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites, ‘1st version of Act II changed to 2nd version on 20.2.95’
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites, 10 March 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites, late November 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites, 23-25 November 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites, late November/December 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites, 6 December 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites, 8 December 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites, 11 December 1995
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites, 1 January 1996
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites, 17 January 1996
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites, 19 January 1996
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites, for fifteenth draft (undated)
Box 36
Folder 261
Literary Drafts
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, notes for rewrites (undated)
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites, second, third and fourth drafts (undated)
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites for fifteenth draft (undated)
Folder 262
Literary Drafts
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, written in Mexico, Act One (undated)
‘Idols Behind Altars: a two-act play’, rewrites towards the first draft. Typed in Mexico – San Miguel de Allende; with accompanying notes and photographs (undated)
Folder 263
Literary Drafts
‘Lasseter (a screenplay)’, preliminary draft, begun in February 1981
Folder 264
Literary Drafts
‘Lasseter’, more drafts, notes, and small correspondence - 9 May, 16 and 18 June 1989
Box 37
Folder 265
Literary Drafts
‘Lasseter: In Quest of Gold’, undated draft version, various pagination
‘Lasseter: In Quest of Gold’, uncorrected proofs (1989?)
Folder 266
Literary Drafts
‘Lasseter: Script, photocopies, etc.’: Scene breakdown, second draft, 1982; ‘Narrative No. 2’, Scene breakdown for second draft; two attached scenes; and book reviews section from The Weekend Australian, 7-8 April 1990
Folder 267
Literary Drafts
‘Paul Thompson’: notes for ‘American rebel’; two drafts of ‘The Sugar Factory (one dated 1986)
‘Trifecta’: letter dated 17 July 1986; Playleader’s Reports and ‘The Rite’, first draft, 1985
‘Project Earth’, second draft, 1987
‘Dad’s Day’, second draft, 1987
‘The Ern Malley Half-Hour: a Treatment’, 1988
Folder 268
Literary Drafts
‘Stringer: Commercial Break’, television script, 1987, 79 pages
‘Below the Dreamline: Selected Poems & Performance Pieces’, 1989
Folder 269
Literary Drafts
‘Trifecta: The Cup Trilogy’, theatre script, 1988, various pagination, with letter dated 30 June 1989
‘Sixteen Words for Water’: notes; magazine article (1996); rewrites as of 29 July 1991
B.C. Cocksedge, ‘A Study in the Collaborative Production of Billy Marshall Stoneking’s Sixteen Words for Water’, 1994
Box 38
Folder 270
Literary Drafts
‘Homeland: a one-act play’, first draft, 14 October 1991, and changes made on 15 October 1991
‘Baby: a one-act play’, first draft for radio, 1994
‘Baby: a one-act play’, penultimate draft, ‘with final, pre-rehearsal notes’, 1995
‘Baby’, second draft for ABC Radio, 7 March 1995
‘Baby’, production notes and schedule, undated, 3 pages
Folder 271
Literary Drafts
‘Baby: A one-act play’, first draft, 1994, prefaced by a letter dated 23 January 1995 and 23 May 1995
‘Baby: an original radio play’, first draft, 1995, prefaced by synopsis and letter dated 5 June 1995
‘16 Words for Water: Radio Adaptation’, rough draft, undated, 82 pages, prefaced by letter dated 7 June 1995
‘Notes / Letters Re: Idols Behind Altars’: notes, jottings, about the play and meetings; scene breakdowns; ‘Idols Behind Altars: A Background’, undated
Folder 272
Literary Drafts
‘Punters’, undated, various pagination: with sub-plays ‘The Prize’, ‘The Rite’”, and ‘The Dream’
‘The Dry: A Treatment of a Feature Film’, undated, 7 pages
‘Talking Mexico’ (working title), undated, 2 pages
‘The Story of Emma Who May Die from AIDS’, undated, 5 pages
‘Bunyip’, undated, 8 pages
‘The Real Heroes’, undated, 9 pages
‘The Man With The Qantas Bag: A Synopsis for a Feature Film’, undated, 4 pages
‘The Story of Kurnki’, undated, 6 pages
‘Working Notes – Out to Lunch’, undated, 8 pages
‘Contexts, Aims and Objectives…: a discussion paper by Bill Marshall’,12 March 1979, 4 pages
‘Dr Alan Thorne: Biography’, undated, 2 pages
‘Off The Page’, preliminary draft for ABC TV poetry clips, October 1994, various pagination
‘Shooting Script: The Interrogation (Working Title)’, undated, 3 pages
‘Voice-Overs’, undated, 4 pages
‘Records of an imaginary baseball team’, 1960s (?), unpaginated
Folder 273
Literary Drafts
‘Introduction to Concrete Poetry (Off the Page Mag.)’, undated, prefaced by letter dated 3 September 1992
‘Remembering Ray: A Ramble’ and ‘The Days With Ray’, prefaced by letter dated 10 October 1992
Poetry materials, prefaced by letter dated 20 February 1993
‘Rough Drafts – Poems – Stoneking’
Drafts – fragmentary, untitled materials, undated
Folder 274
Literary Drafts
Book reviews, undated, unpaginated
‘Tutama Tjapangarti’, undated, unpaginated
‘Mission Impossible: The Clan – Outline for an episode of Mission Impossible’, undated, 11 pages
Drafts – drawings, fragmentary materials, including meeting notes for 29 March 1995
Performance Poetry materials, 1980s and 1990s
Box 39
Folder 275
Publications
I Never Launched a Ship: a magazine of WEA Writers, number 1, Summer, 1981 [very rare]
‘New Titles List 47’, Sand Dollar Books, 28 October 1982
Sara O’Regan, 9 September 1961 – 24 November, 1986: A Retrospective Spanning 25 Years, 9th September 1989, Galerie Des Arts, Balmain, 1989 [very rare]
Off the Page 2, Nigel Roberts (Publisher), Balmain, 1990 (?) [very rare]
Broadside: A Bulletin from the School of English, volume 4, number 6, September, 1990
Heathens: a radio-play by jeltje, Melbourne, 1991;
Caesura: “The Literary Voice of the South Bay”, volume 5, number 3, April 1991;
The Voice Within: Church of Divine Man, Supplement of the Berkeley Psychic Institute, April 1991
Carnivale 91: Statewide Multicultural Festival Oct 5-20, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 September 1991;
Tasmanian Writers Union Newsletter, volume 12, number 1, February 1992
Toe Truck Theatre, February (?) 1992
Folder 276
Publications
The City of Dis, number 2, 1992 [very rare];
Independent Arts Quarterly: Home Planet News, number 35, 1993 [very rare];
Atenciõn San Miguel, Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, volume 50, numbers 30, 32-36, 13 August – 24 September 1993
Folder 277
Business Papers and Financial Records
Invoices, receipts, bookings, contractual materials, organised into 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and undated collections
Folder 278
Invitations
Invitations to poetry and literary readings, events, ceremonies, birthday celebrations, organised into dated (1978-1996) and undated collections
Folder 279
Miscellaneous
‘Almost Managing Company’ material, prefaced by correspondence, 22 March-18 December 1991
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico – brochures
Muse News: The Monthly Newsletter of the Poets Union of N.S.W., minutes of meetings, 11 March 1991 – 9 September 1992; with Writer’s Forum Minutes, 28 January, and 15 April 1994; Newsletter of the Sydney Branch of the Poets Union, 1983; and Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers Bulletin, number 171, October 1982
Folder 280
Cards and Photographs
Greetings cards, postcards, Christmas cards, 1980 – 18 March 1997
Greetings cards, postcards, Christmas cards, undated
Photographs, 1980 – 1994, mainly consisting of Montsalvat, 1992 and ‘Photos of Town & House Recreo 35, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, 1993
Photographs, undated: autographed picture of ‘Billy Marshall Stoneking’, and San Miguel de Allende
Folios
Folder 281
Leon Harris, Upton Sinclair: American Rebel, Thomas Y. Cromwell Company, New York, 1975
Poster: ‘Montsalvat National Poetry Festival, March 8 – 111991’ [very rare]
Folder: ‘A Language Trip – Urban Realism by the Concrete Poets’; ‘Curriculum Vitae Kyle Neaves’; ‘Stobart/Neaves Collaboration To Date’; ‘Australian Performance Poetry Film’
Map Cabinet
Number 1073
Advertisement for Melbourne Theatre Company 1991 performance of Sixteen Words For Water by Billy Marshall Stoneking
AV material
AV Box 1
AV1
Video cassette - Desert Stories
AV2
Audio cassette - first broadcast Radio Helicon, ABC Radio National, Sunday 11 September 1988
AV 3
Audio cassette - Singing The Snake, 1990
AV4
Audio cassette - ABC Radio National Late Night Live, 26 February 1991, “poets” - Billy Marshall Stoneking, Lauren Williams, Pi O (pseudonym of Peter Oustabasidis)
AV5
Audio cassette - Side A - Starts with a still life, my version - rough mix
Side B - Starts with Dear Reginald, Grant’s new version
AV6
Audio cassette - Call It Poetry Tonight interviews and related performances
AV7
Audio cassette - live wire number 5 Wharf Theatre, 24 February 1991, broadcast 2 March 1991, Radio National, 7.10 pm
AV8
Video 8 cassette - Eric Beach interview for Call It Poetry Tonight, 6 March 1992
AV9
Video cassette - Poets B4
AV10
Video cassette - Call It Poetry Tonight VHS C excerpts Part 1
AV11
Video cassette - Call It Poetry Tonight VHS C excerpts Part 2
AV12
Video cassette - rough cut master 1, off line
AV13
Video cassette - master 2, rough cut, off line
AV14
Video cassette - master 3, rough cut, off line
AV Box 2
AV15
Video cassette - poets, rough cut master number 4
AV16
Video cassette - rough cut master number 5.
AV17
Video cassette - Call It Poetry Tonight fine cut Part 2
AV18
Video cassette - Call It Poetry
AV19
Video cassette - Call It Poetry, ex master tape SAA 162N
AV20
Video cassette - Call It Poetry Tonight rough cut
AV21
Video cassette - Call It Poetry Tonight fine cut dub edited
AV22
Video cassette - Call It Poetry Tonight - rough cut - dub first 40 minutes
AV23
Video cassette - Call It Poetry edited master 20 October 1992
AV24
Video cassette - VHS P/US night
AV25
Video cassette - Call It Poetry Tonight dub rough cut
AV Box 3
AV26
Video cassette - tapes 1 and 2 - Pi O (pseudonym of Peter Oustabasidis) and Amanda Stewart
AV27
Video cassette - tapes 3 and 4 - B.M.S and Grant Caldwell
AV28
Video cassette - tapes 5 and 6 - Jenny Sheard and Nigel Roberts
AV29
Video cassette - B.M.S and Nigel Roberts. Audio Conversation Assembly
AV30
Video cassette - Poetry B1
AV31
Video cassette - Poetry J3
AV32
Video cassette - Call It Poetry Tonight Opener Longcut
AV Box 4
AV33
Video cassette - Poetry Live 3B
AV34
Video cassette - Poetry Live 4
AV35
Video cassette - Poetry Live 5
AV36
Video cassette - Poetry Live 6
AV37
Video cassette - Poetry J1
AV38
Video cassette - Call It Poetry, fine cut part 1
AV Box 5
AV39
Video cassette - Poetry Live 1
AV40
Video cassette - Poetry Live 2
AV41
Video cassette - Poetry Live 3A
AV42
Video cassette - Poetry B2
AV43
Video cassette - Poetry B3
AV44
Video cassette - Poetry J2
AV Box 6
AV45
Audio cassette - Singing the Snake Poems from the Western Desert arranged and presented by Billy Marshall Stoneking - ABC Radio National, 4 August 1991
AV46
Audio cassette - Arts Review. 8 TOP-FM. 5 April 1991, Prod. David James
AV47
Video cassette - Sixteen Words For Water second run-through Sydney Theatre Company, small rehearsal room, 30 July 1991
AV48
Video cassette - television interviews, promos, for Sixteen Words For Water, featuring Billy Marshall Stoneking, Simon Chilvers, Rosemary Harris, and May-Brit Ackerholt
AV49
Video cassette - nine computer disks - Sixteen Words For Water by Billy Marshall Stoneking - drafts. Processed on a Wang Office Assistant
NOTE: Five VHS tape cassettes (av50-55) formerly filed in AV Box 6 were removed and placed in AV Box 10
AV Box 7
AV56
Audio cassette Billy Marshall Stoneking on Passages, Passanten on Netherlands radio, 15 October 1991. Singing by Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa, Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi
AV57
Video cassette - excerpts from poetry reading at Little Reata’s - Melbourne featuring Jas Duke, Kerry Loughrey, Eric Beach.
AV58
Three boxes of ten computer disks - Sixteen Words For Water by Billy Marshall Stoneking - including notes and deleted passages that did not appear in any of the extant drafts
AV59
Three boxes of ten computer disks - Sixteen Words For Water by Billy Marshall Stoneking - including notes and deleted passages that did not appear in any of the extant drafts
AV60
Three boxes of ten computer disks - Sixteen Words For Water by Billy Marshall Stoneking - including notes and deleted passages that did not appear in any of the extant drafts
AV61
Video cassette - archival footage - West Virginia - Marshall family. Recorded by Billy Marshall Stoneking, July-August 1994
AV62
Video cassette - archival footage - West Virginia places and people including Gettysburg, PA. Oral histories of Billy Marshall Stoneking’s family, July-August 1994
AV Box 8
Blue Ring Folder: WANG Diskettes:
‘America Boy 1’; ‘Call It Poetry – Script’; ‘Speed of Darkness II’; ‘Custodians Treatment’; ‘Speed of Darkness 3’; ‘Punters (1)’; ‘Punters (2)’; ‘Annie’s Disk’; ‘After Midnight’; ‘Off the Air’; ‘Feature Film Script: All Shook Up, 1’; ‘Feature Film Script: All Shook Up, 2’; ‘Mission Impossible: The Clan’; ‘Mission Impossible: The Clan - Rewrite’
Black Ring Folder: WANG Diskettes:
‘The Speaking Land, 3rd Draft’; ‘Poetry MSS: Conrad’s Poems’; ‘Articles: Pound essay. Letters’; ‘Lasseter Script: Final Draft’; ‘Reviews’; ‘The Speaking Land, 4th Draft’; ‘The Speaking Land, 2nd Draft’; ‘Prose/Poems Book’; ‘Work-in-Progress “The Dry” Treatment / Notes, etc.’; ‘The Sacred Runner’; ‘Correspondence 100%’; ‘Writings, letters, etc.’; ‘Journalism - πO Letters’; ‘Magazine Articles, πO; ‘Lasseter Project Disk 2’; Lasseter Project Treatment, 20.6.95’; ‘The Audience’; ‘Off Limits’; ‘Call It Poetry / Tonight Script (Final)’; ‘Dreamline – Poems’; ‘Poetry’; ‘America Boy Taking America Out of the Boy’; ‘Play – Speaking Land, 1st Draft’; ‘Play Work (P) Pound Rewrites’; ‘Lasseter Mini-Series, Off the Page Workshops’.
Red Ring Folder: WANG Diskettes:
‘Untitled: WP Utilities Disk’; ‘Maintenance Disk, version 2.1’; ‘Untitled: Typewriter Disk’; ‘Untitled: Maintenance Disk’; ‘Untitled: Word Processing Training’; ‘Untitled: Multiplan Disk’; ‘Troppo Scripts – inc. Pilot’; ‘Play Work (T) “The Prize”, Rewrites’; ‘Urban Legends, Lasseter Book Rewrites, Nosepeg’s Movie’; ‘Maint: Writings, Lee Robinson Treatment, Out to Lunch Treatment 25-30’; ‘Walkabout Articles (US), European Walkabout Tour – Proposal’, ‘Misc, Get Stepmother story’; ‘Television: Mission Impossible’; ‘Untitled: Document Disk’; ‘Untitled: To / Do Disk’; ‘Poems/Pound Essay, Around the Hills of the Giant Mew’; ‘The Prize’; ‘Trifecta’; ‘System Disk, version 2.1 (Back up)’.
AV63
Video cassette – Fighting for a Century, De Montignie Media Productions, 1984
AV64
Video cassette – ‘Living Cross ‘94’, Grafton Methodist Church Easter Musical
AV65
Video cassette – ‘Project Earth’ and ‘Dad’s Day’, dubbed 7 July 1988
AV Box 9
Six boxes of floppy discs (MD 2D diskettes), with labelled discs on various drafts of the following:
‘Idols Behind Altars’; ‘Sixteen Words for Water’; ‘Eisenstein Play’; ‘Fire in the Heart’; ‘Mexican Play’; ‘Taking America Out of the Boy’
Six audiocassettes: ‘ABC Radio Presents Sixteen Words for Water’; ‘Living Cross ‘94’; ‘Ramona / πO / 24 Hours’; ‘Biography’ and ‘Baby’, ‘ADFA Reading 19-4-90’; ‘Singing the Snake featuring the poetry of Billy Marshall Stoneking’, Netherlands Radio, March 1995
Pack of cards: ‘Scene breakdown for Lasseter film script – (1981-1982) on the strength of a first draft of this script’
Pack of cards: ‘Scene breakdown for feature film “All Shook Up” commissioned by hypnotist Martin St. James – (1989-1990)’
AV Box 10
AV50
Video cassette - Sixteen Words For Water. Rehearsal number 1. 1990
AV51
Video cassette - Sixteen Words For Water. Rehearsal number 2. 1990
AV52
Video cassette - Sixteen Words For Water. Rehearsal number 3. 1990
AV53
Video cassette - Sixteen Words For Water. Rehearsal number 4. 1990
AV54
Video cassette - Sixteen Words For Water. Final Rehearsal, 28 April 1990
AV55
Video cassette - Sixteen Words For Water. Performance, 28 April 1990, ANU