Records of the Twelvetrees Publishing Company
MSS 155
Collection Title
Records of the Twelvetrees Publishing CompanyCollection Identifier
MSS 155Inclusive date(s)
1984 to 1988Extent and Medium
Creator(s)
Category
Subject: Terms(s)
Authors and publishers -- Australia -- Archives
By way of a vessel
Effects of light : poetry of Tasmania
Full and plenty : an oral history of apple growing in the Huon Valley
Holiday girls and other poems
Poets
Publishers
Publishers and publishing -- Australia -- Archives
Queuing for the Mudd Club
Remote corners
Subject: Person(s)
Subject: Organisation(s)
Collection Description
Records and correspondence, edited drafts, reviews, newspaper clippings, contracts, etc.
Administrative / Biographical history
Twelvetrees Publishing Company was founded in 1984 by Clive Tilsley, Michael Denholm and Andrew Sant. It has published five books of poetry Queuing for the Mudd Club by Stephen Edgar, 1985; Holiday girls and other poems by Vicki Raymond, 1985; Effects of light : poetry of Tasmania edited by Vivian Smith and Margaret Scott, 1985; By way of a vessel by Edith Speers, 1986; Remote corners by Graeme Hetherington, 1986. In 1987 Twelvetrees published Full and plenty : an oral history of apple growing in the Huon Valley by Catherine Watson.
In 1986 Holiday girls and other poems was awarded the British Airlines Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the best first-time published book of poetry.
References:
Small press publishing in Australia, v. 2. 'The late 1970s to the mid to late 1980s' by Michael Denholm, 1991.
Acquisition Details
Scope and Content
This collection comprises correspondence, edited drafts, galley proofs, paste-up copies, reviews, newspaper clippings and general office records relating to publications by Twelvetrees Publishing Company.
System of arrangement
The collection has been arranged in box then folder order.
Access Restrictions
Other
The collection is available for research.Reproduction Restrictions
Existence and Location of Orginals
Related and Separated Materials
Further material relating to Stephen Edgar is located in the papers of Stephen Edgar, at MSS 120.
Further material relating to Vivian Smith is located in the papers of Vivian Smith, at MSS 041.
Further material relating to Margaret Scott is located in the papers of Margaret Scott, at MSS 042.
Further material relating to Edith Speers is located in the papers of Edith Speers, at MSS 234.
Separated Material
Further papers of Vivian Smith are held by the National Library of Australia, in the Papers of Vivian Smith at MS 4853.
University of Queensland Library, Letter : Hobart, to Cecil Hadgraft at F958.
This collection originally included the following publication. This work has been catalogued separately, and added to the Library's main collection.
Catherine Watson Full and plenty : an oral history of apple growing in the Huon Valley, Twelvetrees Publishing Company,1987.
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