Papers of Billy Marshall Stoneking
MSS 119
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Papers of Billy Marshall StonekingCollection Identifier
MSS 119Inclusive date(s)
1970 to 1996Extent and Medium
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Collection Description
Drafts of manuscripts, correspondence, reviews, financial records, video and audio cassette tapes, notes, posters, and photographs relating to the works of Billy Marshall Stoneking
Administrative / Biographical history
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
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
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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 If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items.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.
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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.