Dane Thwaites - literary papers, approximately 1978-approximately 1 1989, along with records of 'Hobo Poetry Magazine', 1993-2000

MLMSS 8663
MLOH 684

fonds

approximately 1978-2000

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Photographs, Oral Histories

412144

Digitised

1.73 metres of textual material (12 boxes)
1 audiocassette (16 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Dane Thwaites, poet, editor and publisher was born in 1950 at Inverell, NSW. He was educated at the University of New England, graduating in 1971. He was the recipient of a young writer's Literature Board Grant in 1986 and a Literature Fund Fellowship in 1996. He shared the Mattara Prize for Poetry (now called the Newcastle Prize) in 1987, and won the Premier's Poetry Award, Brisbane Writer's Festival in 1996.
Thwaites' poetry has appeared in numerous Australian literary journals, including 'Meanjin', 'New Poetry', 'Overland', 'Poetry Australia' and 'Westerly'. Two collections of his poetry have been published: 'Winter Light' (1983) and 'South China' (1993).
Thwaites founded 'Compass', a poetry magazine in 1977, co-editing twelve issues from 1977 to 1982. He has also edited the poetry magazines 'Helix' and 'Phoenix Review'. In 1983 he established Black Lightning Press, a small publishing venture and as its editor and manager published a series of eight poetry books by Australian poets between 1983 and 1989.
In 1993 Thwaites founded the poetry magazine 'Hobo', editing the first sixteen issues from 1993 to 1998. A particular feature of the magazine was its English language haiku section.

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Dane Thwaites literary papers, ca.1978-ca.1989, along with records of 'Hobo Poetry Magazine', 1993-2000. Literary papers, include personal and professional correspondence and literary manuscripts of Dane Thwaites. Records of Hobo Poetry Magazine, include correspondence, files, poems submitted, art work, 'Hobo' issues, printed material and photographs.

BOX 1
Personal correspondence, 1983-1989, ‘Project 12 D. F. Porter Night Parrot’ 1983-1984, ‘Project 13 – The Postal Bookshop’

BOX 2
Draft ‘Whisky’ poems, 1983, ‘Shakespearean Sonnets’ typescript, 1983, , ‘Tileview Towers’ by Merle Glasson - publishing file, 1984
‘Hobo 1’ papers, 1993
‘Hobo 2’ papers, 1993
‘Hobo 2’ correspondence, 1993
‘Hobo 3’ correspondence, 1994
‘Hobo 3’ artwork and dummy book, 1994
‘Hobo 3’ poems, 1994

BOX 3
‘Hobo 4’ letters, 1994
‘Hobo 5’ poems, 1995
‘Hobo 5’ biographies, 1995
‘Hobo 5’ letters, 1994-1995
‘Hobo 6’ papers, 1995
‘Hobo 7’ letters, 1995
‘Hobo 7’ photocopy, 1995
‘Hobo 7’ biographies, 1995
‘Hobo 8’ letters, 1995-1996
‘Hobo 8’ poems, 1996

BOX 4
‘Hobo 8’ biographies, 1996
‘Hobo 9’ letters, 1996
‘Hobo 9’ poems, 1996
Copy of petition to Prime Minister and the Literature Fund of Australia Council, 1996, back up disks for Hobo 6, 7 and 8, ‘South China’ typescript, ‘Falling off the Rainbow’ by Merle Glasson typescript, ‘Falling Leaves’ by Eleanor Fassell typescript, photographs of Judith Beveridge, ‘Hobo 10’ paste up, dummy book and printed book.
‘Hobo 10’ letters, 1996
‘Hobo 10’ poems, 1996
‘Hobo 10’ biographies including correspondence, 1996
BOX 5
‘Hobo 11’ letters, 1996
‘Hobo 11’ poems including correspondence, 1996
‘Hobo 12’ letters, poems, various files 1996-1997
‘Haiku 13’ file, 1997

BOX 6
‘Hobo 13’ letters, 1996-1997
‘Paste up of Hobo 16’, 1997
‘Hobo 14’ letters, 1997

BOX 7
‘Letters 22. 16.6.98’, 1998-2000
Bundle, 1995-2000, including correspondence
‘Letters etc. #17’, 1998

BOX 8
‘Letters 20’, 1999
‘South China’ by Dane Thwaites (Hale & Iremonger, 1994) 1 copy
‘OZ exile’ became TAKE4 and bombed 2.6.98’, 1996
‘Ads in 96, closed 2.6.98’, 1996
‘Heather Cam as guest editor closed 2.6.98’, 1995-1996
‘Rejection slips’, 1990
‘Blue Mountains City Council, City of the Arts grants’, 1996

BOX 9
‘File TAKE4, closed 2.6.98’ includes correspondence with Overland, Southerly, Westerly, 1996-1997
‘Correspondence’, 1999-2000
Bundle of various manuscripts, typescripts by Dane Thwaites, 1996-1997

BOX 10
Correspondence mainly with contributors, 1998
‘Letters 19’, 1998-1999
1998 HOBO Haiku competition

BOX 11
1999 HOBO Haiku competition
‘Letters HOBO 18’, 1998

BOX 12
Miscellaneous HOBO material including correspondence, 1997-2000
Printed material: Compass Poetry and Prose Magazine, 1978-1981
HOBO Poetry Magazine, Issues 1 – 25. Missing issues 2 and 22.

SOUND RECORDINGS
1 sound cassette tape, call number MLOH/684
Dane Thwaites oral history interview

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The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017 of the Library's oral history collections.

MLOH 684/1 Side A: Recorded in April 1994

Interviewee: Thwaites, Dane, 1950-
Corporate creator: 2NSB (Radio station: Chatswood, N.S.W.)