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| Manuscript Name | Papers of Jeri Kroll |
| Manuscript Number | MSS 059 |
| Last Updated | June 2021 |
| Extent | 13 boxes + 2 oversize |
| Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
| Abstract | Manuscripts, drafts, galleys and reviews for Jeri Kroll's works, together with correspondence and material concerning the SA Friendly Street Poetry Group |
Collection Subject Type
Literary
Scope and Content
This collection relates to poet and author Jeri Kroll, and includes material related to her works Death of Mr. Right (1982), Indian Movies (1983), andThe Electrolux man and other stories (1987), along with correspondence, drafts, galleys, annotated material, and material concerning the SA Friendly Street Poetry Group
Date Range of Content
1977-1993
Biographical Note
Poet and author Jeri Kroll was born in New York City in 1946. After completing her studies at Smith College, Massachusetts, University of Warwick, UK and Columbia University, New York (where she attained her PhD), she moved to Australia in 1978. Her career included positions at several tertiary institutions teaching literature and writing, as well as work as a freelance writer and a community arts worker. She has been a literary producer for radio 5UV, particularly Writers’ Radio and Authors’ Proof, along with conducting interviews with writers.
Initially writing poetry and short stories for adults, Kroll’s published works also include several books for children, school readers, and articles on Samuel Beckett, contemporary poetry and the pedagogy of creative writing.
References:
Austlit : Jeri Kroll https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A10235 retrieved 15 June 2020
Administrative Information
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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 If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items.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collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright.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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Preferred Citation
Papers of Jeri Kroll, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 059, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
Provenance
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Related Material
A videorecording of Jeri Kroll reading her poetry at the ADFA Library was taken on the 7 March 1991 and is held at PR 9619.3.K96 J46
Separated Material
The following published works have been catalogued and added to the main Academy Library collection:
Laurel Review, vol. 12, no. 1, West Virginia Wesleyan College Buckhannon, W. Va: The College
Grecourt Review, February and April 1966, Northampton, Mass.: Smith College
The Gritloaf Anthology, edited by Pete Bonnette and Isabel Zuber - Winston-Salem, N.C.: Palaemon Press, c1978
Subject Keywords
Subjects
Jeri Kroll, 1946- — Archives
Australian poetry — 20th century
Australian literature — 20th century
Friendly Street Poets — Archives
Personal Names {heading 3}
Jeri Kroll, 1946-
Corporate Names {heading 3}
Friendly Street Poets
Occupations {heading 3}
Poets
Authors
Container List
Box 1
Folder 1
Indian Movies by Jeri Kroll: manuscript, final edited (marked-up), typewritten, handwritten pencil and ink annotations
See Folio 1 for galleys (page proofs, draft information paper and stills)
Folder 2
Part 1:
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories, by Jeri Kroll: contents list with notes, handwritten ink and pencil list of the stories
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: drafts of selected stories including ‘Conway Castle (Northeastern Wales)’: setting of story in The Electrolux Man and Other Stories of ‘Moving On’ (pencil note: ‘hadn’t found the poem, though, or seen it until going through papers for library since early 70s?’), photocopy
Folder 3
Part 2:
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: retyped drafts of selected stories with pencil annotations, 1984 and June and July 1985
Folder 4
Part 3:
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: retyped drafts of selected stories with ink and pencil annotations, 10 March 1977 and April and May 1985
Folder 5
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: old drafts left after editing
Folder 6
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: unrevised 1985 version used for master for 1986 version, typewritten
Folder 7
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: unrevised 1985 version used for master for 1986 version, typewritten
Box 2
Folder 8
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: draft (July 1986), typewritten, handwritten ink and pencil annotations (master for final copy)
Contents list: handwritten with annotations
Folder 9
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: galley, 1986?, 1987 for novel grant?, with handwritten page numbers and annotations
Folder 10
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: galley, handwritten annotations, no page numbers
Folder 11
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: final draft, typewritten, ink and pencil annotations, sent to A S 19 March 1987, corrected against galleys
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: contents list
Folder 12
Indian Movies: manuscript, typewritten, 1983, must be after October 1983, when Jeri Kroll wrote ‘Translations’
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: draft, typewritten
Folder 13
Indian Movies: final photocopy, November 1983
Box 3
Folder 14
Indian Movies: manuscript, typewritten
Folder 15
Death as Mr. Right: manuscript, typewritten, some photocopied (incomplete missing section, iv, v and old G and S), pencil annotations
‘Genus and Species’, a sequence of ten poems and coda in progress: 2 copies, 1 typewritten and 1 photocopy
Folder 16
Death as Mr. Right: manuscript, print ready 1981, typewritten, pencil and ink annotations
Folder 17
Death as Mr. Right: manuscript, photocopy (submitted to Graham Rowlands for Friendly Street series)
‘Genus and Species’, a sequence of ten poems and coda in progress, published in Death as Mr. Right: typewritten photocopy
’Monsoon at Kovalam Beach/South India’: typewritten photocopy
‘Noon at Duladeo Temple’: typewritten photocopy
‘The Night Before the Funeral’: typewritten photocopy
‘The Towers of Silence, Bombay, India’: typewritten photocopy
Folder 18
Death as Mr. Right: preliminary to final draft given to Graham Rowlands, typewritten with pencil annotations
Correspondence to Graham Rowlands: handwritten photocopy
Folder 19
Death as Mr. Right: draft, sections iii, iv, and v, typewritten
Death as Mr. Right: galley proofs, typewritten, pencil and ink annotations
Folder 20
Scripts for Radio 5UV programme launchings of Friendly St. Poetry Reader’s, numbers 3-7, recorded live at the Federal Box Factory, Adelaide, SA: typewritten and handwritten with pencil and ink annotations
Folder 21
Correspondence relating to Friendly St. Poetry Reader, no. 8.
Friendly St. Poetry Reader, edited by Robert Clark and Jeri Kroll, number. 8: drafts, typewritten and handwritten with pencil and ink annotations
Box 4
Folder 22
Correspondence: personal and business from Hyland House Publishing regarding Indian Movies
Indian Movies: publishing information
Hyland House Publishing catalogue 1985
Photographs of Jeri Kroll (black and white)
Folder 23
Indian Movies: photocopies of reviews from magazines and newspapers; book launch information; background information
Correspondence from Hyland House Publishers, Friendly Street Poets, Radio University 5UV
Hyland House Publishing catalogue 1984 x 2 copies
Folder 24
Death as Mr. Right: draft 1977 sent to Blue Ridge Writers’ Project as part of application, typewritten
‘Mailwoman’ published as Death as Mr. Right: old draft, typewritten
‘Mailwoman (or Death as Mr. Right)’: draft, typewritten and handwritten with pencil annotations
Correspondence to Harry T Antrim, Director AWP Series of Contemporary Poetry, Florida International University, typewritten with pencil annotations
Folder 25
Death as Mr. Right: draft, early 1980, typewritten
Folder 26
Death as Mr. Right: original draft, typewritten
Folder 27
‘Mailwoman’ published as Death as Mr. Right: draft, complete first version 1977, typewritten
Folder 28
‘Genus and Species’, a sequence of ten poems and coda in progress, published in Death as Mr. Right: draft, revised, typewritten with pencil annotations
‘Genus and Species’ , a sequence of ten poems and coda in progress, published in Death as Mr. Right: draft, old, typewritten and photocopies
Correspondence: typewritten and handwritten
Folder 29
‘Genus and Species’, a sequence of ten poems and coda in progress, published in Death as Mr. Right: drafts (April 1980?) and May 1980, typewritten
Correspondence to Lucy Frost: typewritten
Box 5
Folder 30
Death as Mr. Right: draft, May 1980, typewritten with pencil annotations
‘Mailwoman’, published as Death as Mr. Right: draft, some photocopies, 28 February 1980, typewritten with pencil and ink annotations
Folder 31
Death as Mr. Right: draft, typewritten and handwritten, some typewritten photocopies, with pencil annotations
Folder 32
‘The Electrolux Man’, from The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: draft for The Age, Tabloid Story, Short Story Awards 1982
‘Miss Mulvey of 4-2B’, from The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: draft for The Canberra Times and the Commonwealth Bank 1982 National Short Story of the Year competition, typewritten x 2 copies
Folder 33
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: drafts retyped with pencil and ink annotations
Folder 34
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: selected stories: drafts, typewritten
‘Basenji’, from The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: published in Ash, Summer 1982, p. 16, photocopy
Brochures for Death as Mr. Right and Indian Movies; No. 8 Friendly Street Poetry Reader; book reviews: drafts, typewritten with ink annotations
Folder 35
Part 1:
Indian Movies: drafts, 1981, 1982, 1983, typewritten and handwritten with pencil and ink annotations
Miscellaneous correspondence relating to Indian Movies
Folder 36
Part 2:
Indian Movies: drafts, 1981, 1982, 1983, typewritten and handwritten, some photocopies, with pencil and ink annotations
Box 6
Folder 37
Part 3:
Indian Movies: drafts, 1981, 1982, 1983, typewritten and handwritten, some photocopies, with pencil and ink annotations
Folder 38
Part 4:
Indian Movies: drafts, 1981, 1982, 1983, typewritten and handwritten, some photocopies, with pencil and ink annotations
Folder 39
Indian Movies: master draft October 1983, typewritten with pencil and ink annotations
Correspondence to and from publishers for: The Electrolux Man and Other Stories
Folder 40
Indian Movies: draft, typewritten, some photocopies
‘Trees’, from Indian Movies: photocopy from The Canberra Times, 5 February 1983, p. 13
Folder 41
Part 1:
Poetry copies used for mailing, to be published in books or magazines and old versions, 1981 and 1982:
Sent to General Studies Unit, University. of NSW, 1982, typewritten: ‘Walking Scared’; ‘If All Words Fail’; ‘Ennui’; ‘Albany Train’; ‘Dedications to Couples’; ‘Bad Back Blues’; ‘Moonlight’
Sent to University of Adelaide, 1982, type: ‘Silent Poem, 4 am’; ‘Wet Seasons’; ‘Glenelg’
Sent to The Canberra Times, 8 August 1981, p. 13, typewritten photocopy: ‘On the Landing of Columbia April, 1981’
Selected poetry from Indian Movies and Death as Mr. Right, typewritten
Folder 42
Part 2:
Poetry copies used for mailing, to be published in books or magazines and old versions, 1981
Selected poetry from Indian Movies and Death as Mr. Right, typewritten
Folder 43
Indian Movies: draft typewritten with pencil comments by Melbourne poet Philip Martin, 1982? (part of what Phil read, few missing)
Indian Movies: working copy shortened, as submitted to AGAC, 1982, typewritten (missing ‘Dead Heat’)
Folder 44
Indian Movies: old draft 1982 to early 1983?, copy of previous one, typewritten (note: no ‘Bushfire Weather’)
Box 7
Folder 45
Indian Movies: final draft, March 1983, typewritten with pencil annotations
Folder 46
Indian Movies: manuscript as originally submitted to Hyland House Publishing 1983 (mailed 17 April 1983), typewritten
Folder 47
Indian Movies: drafts, old master 1982 to early 1983? (note: no ‘Bushfire Weather’, written soon after Ash Wednesday), typewritten
Folder 48
Indian Movies: various drafts of contents list, typewritten and handwritten with pencil annotations.
Indian Movies: draft, missing selected poems given to Richard Tipping for erotic poetry anthology, typed
Indian Movies: draft, probably January or February 1983, sent to Peter for comments?, typewritten with handwritten annotations, photocopy
Folder 49
Indian Movies: drafts, typewritten and handwritten, with pencil annotations
Folder 50
Part 1:
Death as Mr. Right: draft, typewritten, some photocopied and handwritten, with pencil annotations
Correspondence to Graham 5 July 1979
Deleted lists
Folder 51
Part 2:
Death as Mr. Right, by Jeri Kroll: draft, typewritten and handwritten, with pencil annotations
Deleted lists
Newsletter, Fellowship of Australian Writers, South Australia, April, August, September 1979
Folder 52
Part 3:
Death as Mr. Right, by Jeri Kroll: draft, typewritten and handwritten, with pencil annotations
Deleted lists
Box 8
Folder
Folder 53
‘Mailwoman : from Fall to Spring’, Jeri Kroll: draft, third revision x 2 copies, typewritten, ink and pencil annotations
Folder 54
Miscellaneous poetry drafts, working copies and originals: ‘Walking the Dog’; ‘Dead Heat’; ‘Saying Goodbye to a Dream’; ‘Poem for Judy’; ‘Body’; ‘Australian in New York’; ‘For Laurence and Nancy’; ‘The Son Almost Rises’; ‘Two on Love’; ‘Mailwoman’; ‘Death Sounds’; ‘In the Tropic of Dreams’; ‘Only Female Mosquitoes Pierce the Flesh’; ‘Marriage’; ‘Only When Daughter Grows Old Does Daughter Begin to Listen’; ‘Fall Sun’; ‘Full Moon’; ‘Post-war Baby Boom 1946’
Folder 55
‘Mailwoman’ published as Death as Mr. Right, by Jeri Kroll, Friendly Street Poets (Series), 4: manuscript as submitted to A & R, Poets of the Month Series, 29 March 1979, section III, typewritten
Correspondence to Rodney Hall, Angus & Robertson, 29 March 1979, typewritten
Folder 56
‘Genus and Species’, a sequence of ten poems and coda in progress: 2 drafts and 1979 original drafts, typewritten and handwritten, ink and pencil annotations
Folder 57
‘Genus and Species’, a sequence of ten poems and coda in progress: 2 drafts and 1979 original drafts, typewritten and handwritten, ink and pencil annotations
Folder 58
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: typewritten copies for mailing, 1986
Folder 59
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: new, 1984, originals and copies, typewritten with pencil annotations
Folder 60
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: mailing copies, 1985, typewritten and photocopies
Box 9
Folder 61
Part 1:
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: contents list with notes, handwritten ink and pencil list of the stories drafts, old copies, typewritten with pencil annotations
Folder 62
Part 2:
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: typewritten with pencil annotations
Folder 63
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories:
Draft, p. 1-65, typewritten photocopy with handwritten page numbers, 1984 Grants application version
Part of master draft, unnumbered pages
Draft, typewritten photocopy, unnumbered pages
Folder 64
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories:
Draft, typewritten photocopy, unnumbered pages
‘Just Let Me Tell You...’: typewritten with pencil annotations
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: drafts of selected stories, typewritten, with pencil annotations
Miscellaneous prose: working copies for AGAC, April 1983, typewritten some photocopies with pencil annotations
Folder 65
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: manuscript sent to Andrew Taylor for reference for AGAC Grant, 1983
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: AGAC, copies for Grant application: draft October 1983 revision of ‘Reservations’ and Millipedes’, typewritten
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: old from 1983, what’s left, typewritten with pencil annotations
Folder 66
Part 1:
Correspondence from Jeri Kroll to Workshoppers and Fiction Folk regarding selected stories from The Electrolux Man and Other Stories
Job advertisement used as an idea for ‘The Assistant Counter Disaster Clerk’
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: original drafts of selected stories, typewritten with pencil annotations
Folder 67
Part 2:
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: original drafts of selected stories, typewritten with pencil annotations
Folder 68
Part 3:
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: original drafts of selected stories, typewritten with pencil annotations
Correspondence from Meanjin
Box 10
Folder 69
Part 1:
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: original drafts of selected stories 1982, 1983, 1984, typewritten with pencil and ink annotations
‘Maslins Beach January 1981’: original draft 1981, first in Frictions, finally in Indian Movies, typewritten with pencil annotations
Folder 70
Part 2:
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: original drafts and photocopies of selected stories 1981-1984, typewritten with pencil and ink annotations
‘An Insubstantial Affair’: old? draft (check with workshop folder) typewritten
Folder 71
Part 3:
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: original drafts of: ‘Playing With Fire’ and ‘Millipedes’, 1982, ‘typewritten with pencil and ink annotations
Folder 72
Copy of Public Poems, no. 6, February 1983, containing ‘Almost Winter’, by Jeri Kroll
‘Quickening’ or Monster Love (published as Monster Love, 1990): various drafts, typewritten and handwritten with pencil and ink annotations
Mailing list of works to be published in journals
Folder 73
‘Playing with Fire’ (later published in Unsettled Areas and The Electrolux Man and Other Stories): old draft, typewritten and photocopies with pencil annotations
Folder 74
Monster Love: draft typewritten photocopy with ink (red, blue and black) annotations
Folder 75
Part 1:
Monster Love: draft, typewritten and handwritten some photocopies with pencil and ink annotations
Monster Love: reviews; Reader’s report to Wakefield Press’s editor
Folder 76
Part 2:
Monster Love: draft, typewritten and handwritten some photocopies with pencil and ink annotations
Box 11
Folder 77
Part 3:
Monster Love: draft, typewritten some photocopies with pencil and ink annotations
Folder 78
Photocopied extracts from periodicals containing poetry of Jeri Kroll
‘Quickening’, published as Monster Love: drafts, typewritten photocopies and handwritten with pencil annotations
Folder 79
’Quickening’, published as Monster Love: draft as submitted to the Literature Board, 15 May 1989 (sent May 12), typewritten some photocopied with pencil annotations
‘Quickening’, published as Monster Love: drafts ‘A Subtler Lesson’; ‘Weather Report, typewritten pencil. Handwritten pencil notes
Readings List May 1989, handwritten pencil
Folder 80
Monster Love: original first version submitted to Wakefield Press, September 1989 (not final copy), typewritten photocopy
Folder 81
Monster Love: drafts of selected poems, 1987-1988, typewritten and handwritten with pencil annotations
Folder 82
Monster Love: drafts of selected poems, 1987-1988, typewritten and handwritten with pencil annotations
Poetry: originals and copies of ABC poems and the Ian Mudie Award, 1987, typewritten photocopies, handwritten list of poems selected:
‘Exit’; ‘Normanville, S.A., Easter, 1986’; ‘After the Nightmares’; ‘On Not Waking up in the Middle of the Night, Mark II’
Folder 83
Poetry: originals and good copies (unpublished), 1984-1987, typewritten with pencil annotations
Poetry: originals WA, 1987, typewritten
Poetry: published or accepted, 1986, typewritten
Poetry: left with Anne Godden, November 1987, on Melbourne trip (promotion of The Electrolux Man and Other Stories) for her opinion regarding a new book
‘Quickening’, published as Monster Love, typewritten photocopy
Folder 84
‘Quickening’, published as Monster Love: manuscript, 1989, typewritten photocopy
Folder 85
’Quickening’, published as Monster Love: manuscript as sent to SA Department for the Arts, April 1989, typewritten photocopy
Correspondence with Anne Godden, Hyland House Publishing regarding ‘Quickening’, published as Monster Love
Book reviews: photocopies
Box 12
Folder 86
Literary drafts
‘Current 1992 SA Dept Arts Report Dec 1992’: contains draft of ‘House Arrest’
‘Manuscript to Literature Board May 15 1991 for Category B Fellowship’: contains ‘Poetry Manuscript’
‘House Arrest: 1992 Wilpena Versions / 2 Versions, March 1992 and Revision after’: contains two versions of ‘House Arrest’
‘House Arrest 9/3/93’: contains version of work sent to Wakefield Press, including poems both published and unpublished, deleted from the manuscript
Folder 87
Literary drafts
‘House Arrest’, draft version, 73 pages with some annotations
‘House Arrest 1993 Master’: contains master version of manuscript, 59 pages, prefaced by a queries page
‘Extras from Quickening Manuscript’ (that became Monster Love), with some annotations
‘Manuscript that became Monster Love’, 1988-1989
Folder 88
Literary drafts
‘Original House Arrest poem drafts – mostly 1992’: contains typed and handwritten versions of poems with annotations
‘Poems Deleted from Quickening 1989’: contains typed poems with annotations
Folder 89
Literary drafts
‘House Arrest’: contains unmarked copy sent to Wakefield Press in February 1993
Untitled manuscript with poems headed ‘SA Dept for Arts + CH Ms sent to the Committee for Grant, April, 1992’
‘Miss Mulvey of 4-2B’, typed manuscript, 6 pages
‘House Arrest’, version from March 1992 (Wilpena) and revised in April 1992, with some annotations
‘House Arrest’, possibly version changed for Literature Board application
Box 13
Folder 90
Literary drafts
‘House Arrest Original Drafts: contains typed and handwritten versions of poems with annotations, late 1980s to early 1990s
Folder 91
Literary drafts
Untitled manuscript with poems, sent to the SA Department for Arts Grant report, 27 February 1991, with some annotations
‘House Arrest’, draft version, 73 pages with notes on formatting suggestions and annotations
‘MS as Submitted to Literature Board, March 1981’: contains ‘Death as Mr. Right’ and poems from ‘House Arrest’ with some annotations
Folios
Folio 1
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories: galleys 1987
Folio 2
Indian Movies: galleys and draft information paper (including titles)