Series 4: Poetry

MLMSS 11925/Box 20, 39

series

1973-2005

9675438

0.24 metres of textual material (1 box, 4 folders)

Box 20

Proofs of ‘Francis: Poems’ by James Cowan, unpublished
Drafts and completed poems, 1973-1989
‘Love Rites at Rose River: Verse from Arnhem Land’, 1987
Draft typescript poetry ‘Antipodes: prose Poems’ (working title), 1994 later published as ‘Petroglyphs’
Draft typescript poetry ‘Petroglyphs’, 1994
Mock ups of ‘Petroglyphs’ with illustrations by Barry Gazzard, 1994
Proofs of ‘Petroglyphs’
‘Petroglyphs’ original typescript of poems, 1994 published by Brandl & Schlesinger, 1996
Edited typescripts of a long poem ‘ Periploi’ or ‘Unfinished Voyages’ including several iterations of different chapters with corrections and annotations, 1986-1987
‘Periploi’ correspondence, notes and research, 1986-1987
Poetry ‘Homage to Osiris’, 1991
Miscellaneous poems including ‘Mimi Spirit’, ‘Before Dawn’ and others
Original typescript translation of ‘The Palantine Fragments’ by James Cowan
Poetry ‘The Golden Tablets’ and the “Crack Up” series of poems written in mid-2005 at Montville, when Cowan made the decision to move to Buenos Aires

Box 39

‘The Satyr and the Odalisque’ prose poems draft by James Cowan, 2001
‘Annals’ prose poems, 1995
Bound copy of ‘Periploi’ OR Unfinished Voyages I-VI a long poem by James Cowan
Book of poems

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