Guide to the Papers of Diane Fahey

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MS 9001

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Collection Summary

Creator
Diane Fahey
Title
Papers of Diane Fahey
Date Range
1986-1993
Collection Number
MS 9001
Extent
0.28 metres (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
NLA

Introduction

Scope and Contents

The collection comprises typescripts with annotations, revised manuscripts, corrected proofs, final proofs, and blueprints of four of Diane Fahey's published collections. They are Voices from the honeycomb (1986), Metamorphoses (1988), Turning the hourglass (1990) and Mayflies in amber (1993). The manuscripts are all in typescript form and there is often little variation from the published text.

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1172328).

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Diane Fahey, National Library of Australia, MS 9001, [file number]'.

Provenance

The papers were purchased by the Library in March 1993.

Biographical Note

The poet Diane Fahey was born in 1945 and educated in Melbourne. After spending a number of years overseas she returned to live in South Australia in 1986. Her poetry has been published in both Australian and overseas literary journals and anthologies, and Australian newspapers. Five collections of her works have been published.

She has been the recipient of several awards and prizes. They include the Mattara Poetry Prize (1985), the Caltex Bendigo Advertiser Manuscript Award (1986), the Wesley Michael Wright Prize (1987), the John Shaw Neilson Poetry Prize (1988), and a South Australian Department of Arts Grant (1991).

Item Descriptions

Voices from the honeycomb (Milton, Qld: Jacaranda, 1986) (File 1) - Box 1

Typescript and photocopy. Poems occasionally signed. There is textual variation from the published work in some poems, notably in the 'Snapshots of a city' section.

Corrected proof (photocopy) (File 2) - Box 1

Metamorphoses (Sydney: Dangaroo Press, c1988) (File 3) - Box 1

Typescript and photocopy typescript. No textual variation from published work, excepting that 'Notes and illustrations' section is worked and annotated, and poem 'Syrinx' is missing.

Corrected proofs and blueprints (File 4-5) - Box 1

Turning the hourglass (Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1990) (File 6-7) - Box 1

Incomplete typescript (some photocopy). Text mostly as published except that 'Sower' has some handwritten annotations and the order of two sections varies from the published version. Two poems are signed.

Corrected and final proofs (pagination absent or differs) (File 8) - Box 1

Mayflies in amber(Pymble, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, 1993) (File 9) - Box 1

Manuscript submitted to publisher late 1991. Photocopy typescript, no annotation.

Revised manuscript submitted to publisher in August 1992 (File 10-11) - Box 2

Typescript and photocopy typescript with some revision (annotations and paste-ons). Also proofs with corrections, mostly made by publisher.


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