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Manuscript Name | Papers of David Brooks |
Manuscript Number | MSS 110 |
Last Updated | May 2021 |
Extent | 13 boxes + 5 oversize + 1 AV box |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Correspondence, photographs, drafts, and miscellaneous material relating to David Brooks and his work as a poet, author, and editor |
Literary
The papers of David Brooks comprise correspondence, original drafts, proofs, proceedings of poetry seminars, galley proofs / lay sheets, financial records, and contributions for magazines Helix and The Phoenix Review, along with contributions, correspondence, and proofs for Poetry and Gender: Statements and Essays in Australian Women’s Poetry and Poetics (1989). The papers also include a small number of audio cassettes containing poetry seminars and material associated with Brooks’ exhibition titled ‘The Mooncalf’
1984-1994
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brooks_(author)
David Brooks was born and educated in Canberra, graduating from the Australian National University in 1974. Whilst studying overseas for several years, he was an Overseas Contributing Editor to New Poetry and Poetry Australia. He returned to Australia to teach at the Royal Military College at Duntroon in 1981 whilst completing his PhD afterwards teaching at the University of Western Australia, ANU, and finally the University of Sydney.
Brooks’ first collection of poetry, The Cold Front (1983) won the Anne Elder Award, and his works of poetry and fiction have been anthologised both nationally and internationally. Beyond his own published works, Brooks was the editor, with Nicolette Stasko, of Helix,later The Phoenix Review, and in 1989, he edited and published Poetry and Gender with Brenda Walker. He has served on numerous boards and committees, including the editorial boards of Westerly and Southerly, and the management committee of the NSW Writers Centre
References:
Austlit : David Brooks https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A14557 retrieved 8 September 2020
National Library of Australia : Guide to the Papers of David Brooks https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-297750253/findingaid retrieved 8 September 2020
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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.
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Papers of David Brooks, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 110, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
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Further papers of David Brooks are held by the National Library of Australia at MS 8075
David Brooks, 1953- — Archives
Australian literature — 20th century — Periodicals
Australian poetry — 20th century
Australian poetry — Women authors — History and criticism
David Brooks, 1953-
Helix
The Phoenix Review
Editors
Poets
Authors
Folder 1
Helix : Open correspondence
Folder 2
Helix : Closed correspondence
Folder 3
Helix : Poetry, prose, interviews
Folder 4
Helix : 21/22 Poetry
Folder 5
Helix : 21/22 Poetry
Folder 6
Helix : Original copy 21/22
Folder 7
Helix : Original Copy 21/22
Folder 8
Helix : Addresses and correspondence, June 1985
Folder 9
Helix : Biographical notes
Folders 10-11
Helix : Biographical notes
Folder 12
Helix : Perth office (subscriptions) and subscriptions (forms) and 1985 bills
Folder 13
Helix : Sub-editors
Folders 14-15
Helix : Poetry files
Folders 16-17
Helix 16 : Original copy and corrected proofs
Folder 18
Helix : Ledger
Folder 19
Helix : Accounts
Folders 20-21
Helix : Literature Board
Folders 22-23
Helix : Harrop
Folder 24
Poetry and Gender : Miscellaneous papers forwarded by Brenda Walker from Western Australia, March 1989
Folder 25
Poetry and Gender : Bio notes and consent forms
Folder 26
Poetry and Gender : Poets’ statements
Folder 27
Poetry and Gender : Corrected statements
Folder 28
Poetry and Gender : Poets’ statements (originals)
Folder 29
Poetry and Gender : Correspondence
Folder 30
Poetry and Gender : Script
Folder 31
Poetry and Gender : Proof read copy
Folders 32-33
‘Women’s Poetic Anthology’
Initial invitations and correspondence, essays
Folder 34
Poetry and Gender : Veronica Brady
Folder 35
Poetry and Gender : Dale; Gallagher
Folder 36
Poetry and Gender : Sneja Gunew
Folder 37
Poetry and Gender : Hampton; Hewett
Folder 38
Poetry and Gender : Joan Kirley
Folder 39
Poetry and Gender : Lawson
Folder 40
Poetry and Gender : Rose Lucas
Folder 41
Poetry and Gender : Phillip Martin
Folder 42
Poetry and Gender : Elizabeth Perkins
Folder 43
Poetry and Gender : Jennifer Strauss
Folder 44
Poetry and Gender : (Additional) essays received
Brenda Walters; Andrew Taylor; David Brooks; Delys Bird
Folder 45
Paper by David Brooks - ‘Literature and Forgetting’
Folder 46
Correspondence
All correspondence listed here is addressed to or written by either David Brooks or Nicolette Stasko, who both edited Helix, which later became The Phoenix Review.
Australian Literature Board, concerned mainly with funding for and establishing Phoenix journal, July 1986 – October 1991;
Helix letters, March 1984 – March 1990 (?);
Helix letters, review-related communications, February 1985 – January 1986
Folder 47
Correspondence
Alec Hope-dedicated volume of Phoenix, with communications mainly on contributions from correspondents, January-September 1987: includes letters from noted poets such as Judith Wright, Les Murray, Elizabeth Riddell, Phillip Mead, John Tranter, Vivian Smith, Tom Shapcott, and Harold Stewart;
Phoenix letters, August 1986 – November 1987 (small collection);
Phoenix letters, January-December 1988
Folder 48
Correspondence
Phoenix letters, January-June 1989
Folder 49
Correspondence
Phoenix letters, July-December 1989
Folder 50
Correspondence
Phoenix letters, January-June 1990
Folder 51
Correspondence
Phoenix letters, July-December 1990;
Phoenix letters, January-July 1991
Folder 52
Correspondence
Phoenix letters, concerned with prose/poems accepted for publication, May 1989 – September 1991;
Phoenix letters, undated;
Phoenix subscriptions correspondence, 1986-1988;
Personal correspondence, April 1988 - August 1990
Folder 53
Correspondence
Alphabetised incoming and outgoing Phoenix correspondence (1980s and 1990s): A-B
Folder 54
Correspondence
Alphabetised incoming and outgoing Phoenix correspondence (1980s and 1990s): C-D.
Folder 55
Correspondence
Alphabetised incoming and outgoing Phoenix correspondence (1980s and 1990s): E-G.
Folder 56
Correspondence
Alphabetised incoming and outgoing Phoenix correspondence (1980s and 1990s): H-K
Folder 57
Correspondence
Alphabetised incoming and outgoing Phoenix correspondence (1980s and 1990s): L-M
Folder 58
Correspondence
Alphabetised incoming and outgoing Phoenix correspondence (1980s and 1990s): N-R
Folder 59
Correspondence
Alphabetised incoming and outgoing Phoenix correspondence (1980s and 1990s): S-T
Folder 60
Correspondence
Alphabetised incoming and outgoing Phoenix correspondence (1980s and 1990s): U-Z
Folder 61
Correspondence
Postcards and greetings cards, sent to either David Brooks or Nicolette Stasko during the 1980s and 1990s
Folder 62
Helix
Documents and Notes
Mailing, editor, publication and subscription information, with Poetry and Gender addresses;
Drafts and handwritten, typed and annotated lists concerning book reviews and list of books received for issues of Helix (with galleys for no. 16), 1984-1985;
File: ‘Helix – MSS in Transit and Unresolved Controv’, 1984
Folder 63
The Phoenix Review
Documents and Notes
Original working draft version for issue no. 2 (1987) with annotations to accepted poems, short stories, prose pieces, with editorial and authoring suggestions
Folder 64
The Phoenix Review
Documents and Notes
‘Phoenix No. 2 Original Copy’, 1987, enclosing instructions for word processor/typesetting codes
Folder 65
The Phoenix Review
Documents and Notes
‘Phoenix No. 3 Original Copy’, 1988
Folder 66
The Phoenix Review
Documents and Notes
‘Phoenix No. 3 word processing proofs’, 1987-1988
Folder 67
The Phoenix Review
Documents and Notes
‘Phoenix No. 4 word processing proofs’, 1988
Folder 68
The Phoenix Review
Documents and Notes
‘Phoenix No. 4 copy’: contains short story drafts – ‘Noel Stock, ‘Ezra in Exile’, Gerhard Roepf, ‘Does literature need criticism? On the importance of literary criticism for contemporary literature in German’ – ‘David King, ‘The Crystal Bougainvillea’ – Craig McCormick, ‘Going Nowhere’ – A. Rollings, ‘The Light of Bright Interiors’
Folder 69
The Phoenix Review
Documents and Notes
‘Phoenix No. 5 typing: Poetry’, 1989-1990: poems accepted for publication with their author’s correspondence appended
Folder 70
The Phoenix Review
Documents and Notes
‘Phoenix No. 6 copy’, 1988-1990: poems and prose pieces, short stories accepted for publication with their author’s correspondence appended
Folder 71
The Phoenix Review
Documents and Notes
‘Accepted Phoenix 7-8’, 1988-1990: poems, prose pieces and reviews accepted for publication with some author’s correspondence appended
Folder 72
The Phoenix Review
Documents and Notes
‘[Phoenix Review] 7/8 Poetry/Proofed’, 1989-1991: poems, prose pieces and reviews accepted for publication with some author’s correspondence appended; also attached are three brief letters for 1990-1992;
Two 1991 newspaper articles/reviews of The Phoenix Review, from The Age (16 March) and The Canberra Times (26 May)
Folder 73
A.D. Hope Project
Documents and Notes
File: ‘Hope Project – Poems (Phoenix no. 3)’ – materials for Security of Allusion: Essays in Honour of A.D. Hope, editor David Brooks (Canberra, 1992): includes preface, lists of poets invited to contribute to book, drafts and annotated versions of contributions; and unbound copy of Security of Allusion: Essays in Honour of A.D. Hope, editor David Brooks
Folder 74
Literary Drafts
Contributions (poems, prose pieces, reviews, and short stories) to Helix and The Phoenix Review during the 1980s and 1990s, arranged as follows:
(i) dated: [untitled essay on Russell Hoban] (August 1984) – Robert Kimber, ‘Thoughts That Catch the Eye’ (1986?) – Fiona Place, ‘Peripatetic Periscope’, ‘Categorically No’, ‘XXXI’, ‘Sapphires, Hunger, and the Lips of Waves’, ‘Matter’, ‘A gentle Nest’, ‘The Rewebbing of gallery Threads’ (1987) – Mark Truslove, ‘Mofflyn Childrens Home’ (July 1987) – Robert Kimber, ‘A Selection of Poems’ (May 1989) – Stephen Murray, [untitled essay] – ‘This Quieting Moment’ (August 1990) – Judy Parrott, ‘Pictures Lost’, ‘Incompatible Parallels’, ‘Australia: Dawn to Dust’, ‘Tennis’, ‘Their News’, ‘Aborigines’, ‘Death Sentence’, ‘Effigy of Hope’, ‘”Stranger’, Enigma’, ‘Judgement’, ‘Ocean Blue’, ‘Odysseas Prasos’, ‘Parallels’, ‘See What They’ve Done?’ (October 1991); Toula Nikolaou, ‘Arthur’ (July 1992) – Julian Deane-Johns, ‘The Batting Wizard from the City’, ‘Orange Trees’ (August 1992) – Jo-Ann Stubbings, ‘Hot Rocks, Cool Castellano’ (September 1992) – Lynette Wilson, ‘Misty Morning’ (February 1993)
(ii) dated: Deborah Abela (July 1992) on behalf of the following: Marina Pozzi, ‘Favourite Things’ – Dom Della Libera, ‘Thinking ‘Bout Horses When Stoned’ – Deborah Abela, ‘Mr. Lindberg’ – Eleni Prineaf, ‘Passing’ – Margaret McCarthy, ‘Aunt Vinnie’ – Deborah Abela, ‘Unreasoning Farewell’ – Anthony Morgan, ‘Bloodsport’, ‘A Vision of Coal’, ‘Dust’, ‘Dinosaur’
Folder 75
Literary Drafts
(iii) undated: Wilma Spence, ‘The Pub’, ‘Saturday Night’, ‘Toohey’ – Elspeth Sandys, ‘Love’s Old Dream: A Short Story’ – David King, ‘The Sir Frederick Samson Park’, ‘Preoccupations’, ‘Crystal Shit’, ‘Meddle’ – Geneviève Laigle, ‘Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray’s journey towards humility’ – Serge Liberman, ‘From Olympus the Laughter’, ‘The Poet Walks Along High Street’, ‘From the Rock the View and the Vision’ – Peter Skrzynecki, ‘The Wild Dogs’, ‘R.F. Brissenden, ‘Sacred Sites: poems of people and places’ with cover note by John Olsen – Aleksander Zorn, ‘Literature, History and Democracy’, ‘Slovenes and Literature’ – Sydney Lea, ‘Issues of the Fall’ – J. Parrott, ‘Their Place’ – [no author cited], ‘The Car’
Folder 76
Financial Records
Helix – quotations, costs, invoices, estimates, for typesetting, printing, 1984;
Helix – subscriptions, standing orders and related invoices, 1985-1986;
Helix / The Phoenix Review – subscriptions, standing orders and related invoices, 1986-1988;
The Phoenix Review – mainly university (national and international) and town council subscriptions, standing orders and related invoices, 1987;
The Phoenix Review –subscriptions, standing orders and related invoices, 1988;
File: ‘Processed Subscription and Invoice Payments for Filing 9/12/89’ – covers the period 1986 to 1989; subscriptions, standing orders and renewals, and related invoices, remittance advices, grant application submissions;
Literary Arts Board-Australia Council – grant applications and records of subsidies, 1987-1990;
ANUTECH Pty Ltd – invoices, remittances, correspondence regarding payments, 1991-1992;
University Co-operative Credit Society Limited – records of cheques, account balances, 1992
Folder 77
Galley Proofs / Lay Sheets
Helix – consignments and advertising, 1985;
The Phoenix Review, no. 2 – first proofs, 12 January 1988;
The Phoenix Review, no. 2 – second proofs, 23 January 1988
Folder 78
Galley Proofs / Lay Sheets
The Phoenix Review, Special Issue – Winter 1987
Folder 79
Galley Proofs / Lay Sheets
The Phoenix Review, no. 4 – Spring 1989
Folder 80
Galley Proofs / Lay Sheets
The Phoenix Review, no. 4 – Spring/Summer 1988
Folder 81
Galley Proofs / Lay Sheets
The Phoenix Review, no. 6 Spring/Summer 1990
Folder 82
Galley Proofs / Lay Sheets
The Phoenix Review, nos. 7 and 8 – Winter 1992
Folder 83
Galley Proofs / Lay Sheets
R.F. Brissenden, Sacred Sites, The Phoenix Review / Bistro Editions, 1990
Folder 84
Galley Proofs / Lay Sheets
David Brooks (ed.), Security of Allusion: Essays in Honour of A.D. Hope, The Phoenix Review / Bistro Editions with Australian National University, Faculty of Arts (Canberra, 1992)
Folder 85
Galley Proofs / Lay Sheets
The Phoenix Review, no. 1 – Summer 1986/1987
Folder 86
Galley Proofs / Lay Sheets
The Phoenix Review, no. 2 – Summer 1987/1988;
The Phoenix Review, Special Issue – Winter 1987
Folder 87
Galley Proofs / Lay Sheets
The Phoenix Review, nos. 3. 4 and Special Issue – mock-up galley proofs, illustrations, off-cuts;
Large ‘wedge’ of unsorted galley proofs interspersed with lay sheets, for various issues of The Phoenix Review, with editor’s annotations on some pages, 1988-1989
Folders 88 and 89
Exhibition ‘The Mooncalf’
Exhibition for David Brooks’ ‘The Mooncalf’ (1994), of which the text is etched onto 12 transparent plastic display ‘blocks’, to be displayed at random points in an art gallery
Two ink stamps – ‘Phoenix Review’ and ‘Nicolette Stasko’
Set of untitled black and white photographs and negatives
Audio cassette: Poets Seminar I
Audio cassette: Poets Seminar II
Audio cassette: Poets Seminar II
Audio cassette: Poets Seminar II