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Papers of Graham Rowlands
MSS 017

Collection Title

Papers of Graham Rowlands

Collection Identifier

MSS 017

Inclusive date(s)

1958 to 2000

Extent and Medium

22 boxes

Category

Literature

Subject: Terms(s)

Subject: Person(s)

Subject: Organisation(s)

Collection Description

The papers of Graham Rowlands include correspondence, manuscript drafts, diaries and photographs.

Administrative / Biographical history

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Rowlands

Graham John Rowlands was born in Brisbane in 1947, and educated at Brisbane Grammar School, the University of Queensland and Flinders University, Adelaide. While in Queensland, he was editor of the student magazine Makar : magazine of new writing (1966-67) and published Stares and statues (1972), his first book of poetry and the first volume of the Gargoyle poets series.

Rowlands moved to Adelaide in 1971, and was associated with the Friendly Street group of poets, editing with Pauline Wardleworth Friendly Street poetry reader no. 9 (1985). He was for many years both a poetry editor and poetry reviewer for Overland.

In 1978 Rowland completed a PhD in American Studies at Flinders University. He has since worked as a literary journalist, educational editor and lecturer in literature, Australian politics and crime prevention, poetry editor and poetry reviewer. Since 2003 he has taught Creative Writing at Flinders University.

In 2002 Rowlands was the winner of the Festival Awards for Literature (SA), Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship, and the winner of the Satura Prize for his poem 'Down on the ground'.

References:
AustLit : the resource for Australian literature, September 2006.
Directory of Australian poets 1980, Poets Union of Australia, Melbourne, 1980, p 116-117
Selected poems, by Graham Rowlands, 1992.

Acquisition Details

The collection was acquired from Graham and Diane Rowlands in sixty-five instalments from 1986-2000.

Scope and Content

The papers contain a substantial amount of personal and professional correspondence and drafts of poems by Graham Rowlands. Prose and editorial material is also included, along with material relating to the Friendly Street Poets.

Access Restrictions

Other

Access: Check with Curator

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: Check with Curator

Existence and Location of Orginals

Special Collections, UNSW Canberra

Related and Separated Materials

Related Material

Further manuscript material relating to Graham Rowlands may be found in Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy in the papers of:
Jeri Kroll MSS 059
Friendly Street Poets MSS 061


Separated Material

 

Further papers of Graham Rowlands are held by the National Library, in the Papers of Graham Rowlands at MS 7023.

This collection originally included a number of publications, listed below. These works have been catalogued separately, and added to the Library's main collection.

Up the right channels. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland, 1970.

Makar : magazine of new writing, vol. 2, nos 1-4, 1966.

Semper floreat, vol. 35, nos 1-12 and vol. 37, no. 3, 1965 and 1967.

Disclaimer

This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed above. 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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