Boxes 01-20: Poets Union of New South Wales further records

MLMSS 8796/Boxes 1-20

series

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings, Posters

1008767

3.30 mteres of textual material (20 boxes), some folders contain photographs

BOX 1
Correspondence, copies of agenda and minutes of meetings, newscuttings and promotional material, 1991-1997

Folder relating to POW: Poets on Wheels: A Poetry Tour of Northern NSW, 1994-1998

BOX 2
Folder 1: 2001: Papers mainly relating to Burning Lines: The 2001 Australian Poetry Festival, including letter received from Bruce Beaver and photographs of David Musgrove, winner of Broadway Poetry Prize 2001

Folder 2: 2001: Papers relating to National Poetry Festival, Leichhardt Video Poetry Prize and Burning Lines: The 2001 Australian Poetry Festival and material for issues of Five Bells

Folder 3: 2001: Papers mainly relating issues of Fiver Bells and 2 ½ Bells: The Poetry Info Sheet of the Poets Union Inc., and copy of the anthology No River is Safe

Folder 4: 2001: Papers, 1997-2001, including correspondence relating to readings and magazines; minutes of Poets Union Committee meetings, 1999, and papers relating to 1999 Australian Poetry Festival

Folder 5: 2001: Printouts from Poets Union web pages, including Australian Poetry Festival 2001 and issues of Five Bells

BOX 3
Folder 6: 2000 and 2001: Papers mainly relating to issues of Five Bells

Folder 7: 2000: Papers mainly relating to issues of Five B, including October 2000 issue on Regionalism

Folder 8: 2000: Papers relating to issues of Five Bells, including July 2000 issue

Folder 9: Poets Union Committee Meetings rough minute book, 11 Mar.-6 Dec. 2000

BOX 4
Folder 10: Correspondence, 1993-1994; membership listings; and notebook, 1992-1993

Folder 11: Papers relating to POW: Poets on Wheels: A Poetry Tour of Northern NSW and POW! Anthology, 1993-1994

Folder 12: Correspondence relating to 1994 Sydney Writers’ Festival, 1993-1994, and Poets Union publicity material and financial statements, 1991-1994

Folder 13: Correspondence, 1999-2001, mainly with members and poets, and photographs of participants at Poets Union 2nd National Conference, Sydney, 1979

Folder 14: Papers mainly relating to issues of Five Bells, 2001, including June 2001 Winter issue

Folder 15: Papers relating to Poets on Wheels Tour, 1999, including applications

BOX 5
Folder 16: Papers relating to Burning Lines: The 2001 Australian Poetry Festival, Balmain Town Hall, 6-7 Apr. 2001, including preparatory notes, performance poetry workshop applications, participants’ questions, letters and contacts, and photographs of Philip Slalom and Deb Westbury

Folder 17: Correspondence relating to Burning Lines: The 2001 Australian Poetry Festival, 1999-2001, including organisation, launches and volunteer night dinner

Folder 18: Issues of Five Bells, Autumn 2001, Winter 2001, Spring 2001; and of 2 ½ Bells, Mar. 2001, July 2001, Sept. 2001, Dec. 2001; and programme for Burning Lines: The 2nd Australian Poetry Festival 2001

Folder 19: Issues of Five Bells, Autumn 2002, Spring 2002, Winter 2002, Summer 2002; and issues of 2 ½ Bells, Mar. 2002, July 2002, Sept. 2002; copy of From the Anabranch: Poets Union Inc. Anthology 2002; and entry form for The Australian Poetry & Young Poets Fellowships, 2002

Folder 20: Papers relating to issues of 5 Bells, 2002, including Autumn 2002 issue

BOX 6
Folder 21: Papers relating to issues of 5 Bells, Autumn 2001 and Spring 2001

Folder 22: Completed entry forms for Broadway Poetry Prizes 2001-2002 and The Leichhardt Performance Poetry Prize 2001 - Leichhardt Video Poetry Prize 2001

Folder 23: Poem entries for Broadway Poetry Prize 2001

BOX 7
Folder 24: Poem entries for Broadway Poetry Prize 2001

Folder 25: Papers relating to the Australian Poetry Festival 2002, including publicity material, and copy of Footprints on Paper: An Anthology of Australian Writing in English and Chinese (1996), edited by Robyn Ianssen and Yiyan Wang

Folder 26: Australian Poetry Festival 2002 Accounts

Folder 27: Australian Poetry Festival 2002 Accounts No. 2: Bank Statements

Folder 28: Australian Poetry Festival 2002, including cheque, deposit and cash receipt books

Folder 29: Poets Union Committee Meetings minute book, 16 Feb.-11 Dec. 2002

BOX 8
Folder 30: Cash receipt and deposit books, 2002
Folder 30A: Business Activity Statements, 2002
Folder 30B: 2002 Statements: New Account
Folder 30C: 2002 Account Statement
Folder 30D: 2002 Statements – Old Account
Folder 30E: Trust Fund Bank Statements 2002
Folder 30F: Wages PAYG Summary to 30/6/02
Folder 30G: Invoices17/12-01 – 28/9/02
Folder 30H: Poets on Wheels Tour Expenses
Folder 30I: Budget Sheets 2002 – Monthly and Annual (Jan.-Dec.)
Folder 30J: Invoices: Sydney Poetry Network & Brett Whitely Gallery & Electronic Funds Transfer – 22/2/01 – 24/11/02
Folder 30K: Invoices for Printing of Fives bells, 21/2 Bells and Anthology, 2001-2002
Folder 30L: Telephone, 2001-2002
Folder 30M: Insurance, 2000-2003
Folder 30N: Email Invoices, 1999-2002
Folder 30O: Rent, 2002-2003
Folder 30P: Superannuation, 2001-2002

Folder 31: Cheque books, 2002

Folder 32: 2002 Poets on Wheels Tour applications

BOX 9
Folder 33: Papers relating to Australian Poetry Festival,2002, including acquittal report and notes, and publicity material

Folder 34: Papers relating to Australian Poetry Festival 2002, including completed booking forms and brochures

Folder 35: Poets Union Anthology 2000, being originals contributions to No River is Safe

Folder 36: Papers relating to Australian Poetry Festival 2002, including correspondence, notes, prize lists

Petty cash books (2), Jan.-Dec. 2001 and Jan.-Dec. 2002

Expenditure journal, Jan.-Dec. 2001

Poets Union Committee Meetings minute book, 14 Feb.-14 Nov. 2001

Cheque, deposit and cash receipt books, 2001

BOX 10
2004 Broadway Poetry Prize completed entry forms, A-O

BOX 11
2004 Broadway Poetry Prize completed entry forms, P-Z

BOX 12
2004 Broadway Poetry Prize completed entry forms, being clean printouts of entries from individuals, master list of entrants and receipt books for entries

BOX 13
Email correspondence relating to Australian Poetry Festival 2002

Email correspondence, Dec. 2000-2002, and notes on agendas with selected minutes of meetings

BOX 14
Papers relating to Burning Lines: The 2001 Australian Poetry Festival, including financial records, and issues of Five Bells, July 2000 and October 2000, and of 2½ Bells, Sept. 2000

BOX 15
‘POW 99’, 1998-2001, being papers relating to 1999 Poets on Wheels Tour, including applications from poets and acquittal report to NSW Ministry for the Arts

‘POW 2000’, 2000-2001, being papers relating to 2000 Poets on Wheels Tour, including acquittal report to NSW Ministry for the Arts

‘POW 2001’, being papers relating to 2001 Poets on Wheels Tour, including applications from poets and acquittal report to NSW Ministry for the Arts

‘POW 2004’, being papers relating to 2004 Poets on Wheels Tour to NSW, including applications from poets

‘POW 2005’, being applications from poets for 2005 Poets on Wheels Tour to NSW

‘POW Applications’, 2006

Applications from poets for 2007 Poets on Wheels Tour and Byron Bay Writers’ Festival

Papers relating to issue of Five Bells, Summer 2006, including poets’ submissions

BOX 16
‘Budget – Acquittal’, 2001-2002, being papers relating to Burning Lines: 2002 Australian Poetry Festival

‘Burning Lines : Rob’, being papers relating to Burning Lines: 2002 Australian Poetry Festival

Ngara: The Fourth Australian Poetry Festival Media Kit, 2004

Printed and promotional material, 1987-2006, including a copy of rewording ’87: A Weekend of Poetry and Prose, and poetry catalogues

Folders and papers of Robyn Ianssen (Multicultural Officer and Editor of Five Bells) in remainder of BOX 16 through to BOX 18:

Folder relating to Editorial Committee and the publishing of Five Bells, 1998-1999, including correspondence

Folder relating to Editorial Committee and the publishing of Five Bells, 1999-2000, including correspondence

BOX 17
‘Baroque Music & Poetry Evenings’, 1996-1999, organised by Robyn Ianssen, including correspondence and programmes

Folder of publicity relating to Ngara: The Fourth Australian Poetry Festival, 2004

Report on Poetic Ryde into the Millennium: a full-day workshop with reading open to the public, 20 Feb. 1999

‘Poets Union & Multicultural Writers Groups’, 2002-2003

5 colour photographs of Committee meeting and poets at anti-Iraq War march, 2003, including Robyn Ianssen

The Opening of Borders: An Anthology of Poetry by Participants at the XXI World Congress of Poets, Sydney, 2001 (2001) [Robyn Ianssen, Chair of Congress]

BOX 18
Appointment diaries of Robyn Ianssen (5 vols), 2001-2005

Petty cash book, Jan.-Dec. 2005

BOX 19
2006 Broadway Poetry Prize completed entry forms, A-K

BOX 20
2006 Broadway Poetry Prize completed entry forms, L-Y

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