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Manuscript Name | Papers of Jenny Boult |
Manuscript Number | MSS 030 |
Last Updated | August 2021 |
Extent | 41 boxes 2 oversize 1 plan cab 6 AV boxes 2 reels |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Poetry, correspondence, drafts, pamphlets, newsletters, and audiovisual material relating to Jenny Boult |
Literary
This collection relates to Jenny Boult, also known as Magenta Maria Loveday Bliss (MML Bliss).
1950-2005
Jenny Boult was born in Warwickshire, England in 1951, migrating to Western Australia with her family in 1967. In the mid 1970s she was involved in setting up the Friendly St Poets in Adelaide at the Box Factory. In 1994 she moved to Tasmania with her long-time friend and partner. She won the Salamanca Fringe Festival prizes for poetry and fiction in 1995 and appeared at the Tasmanian Writers’ Festival, Montsalvat (Victoria) Hard Times Café and Tasmanian Poetry Festival, Launceston.
In 1999 Jenny Boult changed her name to Magenta Bliss and wrote as MML Bliss
Jenny Boult died in November 2005.
Poems, stories and plays by Jenny Boult and MML Bliss have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas. Jenny Boult's works have been translated into several languages.
Source of information:
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Boult
Austlit:
https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A7934
Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
Copying: Copying of material authored by Jenny Boult for private study and research is approved.
Papers of Jenny Boult, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 030, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
The collection was acquired from Jenny Boult between 1987 and 1994.
Poetry, plays, prose, scripts.
Jenny Boult, MML Bliss 1951 -2005
MML Bliss
Friendly Street Poets
Poet, playwright
Folder 1
Correspondence, 1983 - 85.
Typed poetry, 1983.
Folder 2
Correspondence, 1981, 1984 - 87.
Miscellaneous pamphlets, flyers.
Typed poetry and handwritten drafted poetry.
Folder 3
Writers file: Correspondence 1985.
Miscellaneous pamphlets, flyers.
Folder 4
Writers file: Information sheets from Adelaide Festival Centre and the
Australian Council.
Typed poetry.
Miscellaneous pamphlets, flyers, magazines and newspaper clippings.
Folder 5
Correspondence, 1983 -84.
Flyers.
Folder 6
Correspondence, 1985.
Miscellaneous posters, pamphlets, flyers.
Photocopies of magazine clippings.
Folder 7
Correspondence, 1985.
Miscellaneous flyers.
Network Newsletter 1985.
Draft handwritten poem.
Folder 8
Correspondence, 1985 - 6.
Typed poetry ‘Poems for a Convalescent Friend’.
Photocopy of magazine The Maniac’s Missive’ 1983.
Network Newsletter 1986.
Miscellaneous pamphlets, typed poetry and flyers.
Folder 9
Correspondence: 1980 - 82, 1987.
Newspaper clippings.
Photocopies of a hand.
Folder 10
Synopsis on 12 Poems about motherhood, a video tape by Jenny Boult.
Typed poetry about motherhood with ink annotations.
Correspondence, 1979 - 80.
Typed poetry by Rae Desmond Jones with annotations, 1979.
Miscellaneous flyers and newsletters.
Folder 11
Correspondence, 1980 - 84.
Artwork by Daniel Boult.
Handwritten poetry.
Typed introduction to ‘Bruce Dawe’s Poetry’.
Handwritten poetry by children.
Miscellaneous flyers, newsletters.
Folder 12
Correspondence, 1978 - 83.
Folder 13
Performance poetry. November 5 - 10, 1985.
Correspondence, 1985.
Folder 14
Script three: ‘The Players’, script, typed with pen annotations.
Alcoholics Story, typed.
Transcription from notes, typed 3/83.
Script with suggestion for presentation, typed.
Folder 15
‘Plunge’ scripts, 1985, file: Correspondence 1983 -85.
2 copies: ‘Bitter Surrender - An Adoption Perspective’, first draft of script
treatment, January 1985, typed with annotations.
‘Bitter Surrender - An Adoption Experience’, script treatment.
Two young mothers personal recollections of the adoption experience, typed.
Jenny Boult’s curriculum vitae.
Folder 16
‘The Dinner Party’ draft, handwritten.
‘The Dinner at Six - A drama in 6 acts by Jenny Boult’ typed script.
Folder 17
‘Cabaret’, script, 1985.
Folder 18
‘The Stranger and The Storm’, manuscript.
Folder 19
‘Come Out’, 1985.
Folder 20
After The Rage, script.
Folder 21
Allwrite (pamphlet), news articles, Writing in the community (pamphlet).
The Hotel Anonymous.
Folder 22
‘Screaming Suitcase’, manuscript.
‘Pearls’, manuscript.
Folder 23
Handbaggery.
Folder 24
‘On Darlinghunt Hill’, a poem by Paul Knobel.
Folder 25
Two rubber stamps.
Folder 26
‘Myths and Legends of the People of Islita - AA.’
Folder 27
‘Myths and Legends of the People of Islita’, handwritten notes.
Folder 28
‘The Weatherworker’, manuscript.
‘Shaken’, manuscript.
Folder 29
Can’t Help Dreaming, 1981, 3 draft copies with pen and pencil annotations.
Miscellaneous newspaper clipping and flyer.
Folder 30
All out Ensemble, program and flyers, 1981.
Typed poetry, various.
Artlink, magazine 1981.
Miscellaneous newspaper clippings 1981.
Drawings and story by Daniel Boult
Poetry about a mural by various poets.
Folder 31
‘Ambitions’, typed sequence of monologues.
‘A Poet dreams in Alice Springs’ typed selection of poetry. 1983.
Folder 32
‘Beyond this Morning’, typed manuscript.
Folder 33
‘The Resurrection of Love’, 2 copies of typed manuscript.
Folder 34
‘Images on a brick wall’, 3 copies: master, carbon, copy 4.
Folder 35
Original scripts: ‘Inheritance’; ‘The Weatherworker’.
Folder 36
Original scripts: ‘The Birth of the Century’; ‘The Hotel Panic (2 copies)’;
‘Trade’; ‘The Guru and Zen Capitalism’; ‘Strips’; ‘Looking for the Good
Times’; ‘Platform eighteen at ten to one’; ‘Reveries’; ‘Fear’; ‘Five scenes
from an ongoing nightmare’.
Folder 37
Original typed scripts: ‘Beyond this morning’; ‘Esmerelda’; ‘Life in the Fast
Lane’.
Supporting material - Kate Veitch: ‘The Hotel Panic’, ‘Weathercock Up’,
‘The Ticket-Seller’, ‘Rosa Negra’, ‘Shadows on the Plain’.
Folder 38
The Comedy of Sad, 3 different versions of typed manuscript with pencil annotations on ‘Maddo Who?’, history of script included. 1981, 1984.
Folder 39
Flight 39, three typed draft copies, one with pencil annotations. 1985.
Folder 40
Handwritten poem to Jenny.
Jenny Boult biography, 1981.
Folder 41
Poetry – 1982.
Folder 42
Poetry - 1983.
Folder 43
Poetry - 1980.
Folder 44
Poetry - 1981.
Folder 45
Poetry - 1979, typed with pen annotations.
Folder 46
Poetry - 1979, typed with pen annotations.
Folder 47
Poetry - 1984, typed with pen annotations.
Folder 48
‘Dead’ Poetry - 1978 - 79, typed with pen annotations.
Folder 49
‘Dead’ Poetry - 1978 - 79, typed with pen annotations.
Folder 50
Three small spiral notebooks, handwritten, 1983.
Folder 51
4 exercise books containing handwritten author’s notes, 1983.
Folder 52
Five exercise books containing handwritten author’s notes, 1980, 1984-85.
Folder 53
Six exercise books, personal.
Folder 54
Notebook, 1984-85, ideas and personal.
Folder 55
1985 Diary.
Folder 56
1980 Assembly book, newspaper clippings and poetry.
Folder 57
Two docket books.
1983 Diary.
One notebook, personal 1983.
Folder 58
Two notebooks, 1982-83.
1982 Australian Women’s Diary.
Folder 59
Two notebooks, personal 1984-85.
Folder 60
Diary 1984.
Notebook 1981.
Folder 61
Writers in Residence.
Folder 62
Writers in Residence.
Folder 63
Writers in Residence.
Folder 64
Mobile poetry workshop, writers workshop.
Folder 65
Arts Grants Advisory Committee of South Australia.
Folder 66
Literature Board/ Australia Council, Tasmania.
Writers Festival.
Folder 67
Poets Biographies.
Folder 68
Reference/Biography sheets.
Folder 69
Lecture notes.
Folder 70
Workshops: Kaniva Consolidated School; Murraylane College of T.A.F.E;
Kidman Park Primary School.
Folder 71
Prose - 1980.
Folder 72
Prose - 1981 - 1982.
Folder 73
Short stories.
Folder 74
Prose - undated.
Folder 75
Prose - 1983 - 84.
Folder 76
’The Eavesdropper’ [drama] 1982 - typescript photocopy with ink annotations
’Dialogue After Danger’ [drama] 1984 - typescript photocopies x 2
Folder 77
Published Poetry.
Folder 78
Assorted works (handwritten notes).
Folder 79
Assorted works (handwritten notes).
Folder 80
Assorted originals (handwritten).
Folder 81
Current drafts and assorted papers.
Folder 82
Assorted drama drafts - 1985.
Folder 83
Assorted prose.
Folder 84
Assorted poetry
Folder 85
Highway One, 2 copies.
Folder 86
Wind in Her Fingers.
Folder 87
‘A Poet Dreaming in Alice Springs’.
Book II, Visions of the Mother.
Folder 88
Correspondence, reviews performed at the Red Shed Theatre, Adelaide, 1984,
for the Full House production of: Maddo Harley Died Last Night [drama] - typescript photocopy
’Shaken’ [drama], pt. 1
Miscellaneous book reviews
Folder 89
Maddo Harley Died Last Night [drama] & ’Shaken’ [drama] - door receipts, budget details, correspondence, press release, pt. 2
Folder 90
‘Straag’s Leave’; ‘Country and City’; ‘Lolita’; ‘Kids Story’and other Poetry.
Folder 91
‘Shaken’ x4 copies
Folder 92
‘The Contortionists’, ‘Band One’, 1985.
Folder 93
Toots and Saga - 1985, ‘The Contortionists’ - 2 copies.
Folder 94
Review of The White Rose and the Bath, pt. 1
Folder 95
The White Rose and the Bath, pt. 2
Folder 96
The White Rose and the Bath, pt. 3
Folder 97
Drafts 1983 - 84.
M.R.C poem - May 1984.
Folder 98
Original typescripts: ‘Life on the Fast Lane’; ‘The Termind Buffet’; ‘Beyond this Morning’; ‘Lovers Live in Each Others Arms’; ‘The Handicap’; ‘The Hotel Panic’; ‘Platform 18 at Ten to One’; ‘Esmerelda’; ‘Looking for the Good Time’; ‘Strips’.
Folder 99
Original typescripts:‘Shelter’; ‘Four Vignettes’; ‘Fear’; ‘The Guru and Zen Capitalism’; ‘Trade’; ‘The Birth of the Century’; ‘Control’.
Folder 100
Poetry - 1979, multiple copies.
Folder 101
Poetry - 1983, multiple copies.
Folder 102
Poetry - 1982, multiple copies.
Folder 103
Multiple copies of ‘A Poet Dreaming in Alice Springs’.
Folder 104
Prose, 1985.
Folder 105
Prose, 1984.
Folder 106
Poetry - 1985.
Folder 107
Poetry - 1985.
Folder 108
Poetry - 1980.
Folder 109
Poetry - 1980.
Folder 110
News clippings.
Folder 111
Artists pages - limited edition.
Folder 112
Festival Centre; Akronycle.
1986 Adelaide Festival Fringe, February 21-March 23 - lift-out program guide
Working notes.
Folder 113
Working notes.
Folder 114
Working notes.
Folder 115
Newsletter.
Folder 116
News clippings.
Folder 117
News clippings, flyers.
Folder 118
Small press publications, newsletters.
Folder 119
Small press publications.
Folder 120
Small press publications.
Poetry.
Folder 121
Diaries/journal: 1987, 1988, 1987.
Folder 122
Journals 1985 and 1987.
Folder 123
Journal 1985 contd.
Folder 124
Journal 1985 contd.
Folder 125
Workshop publications.
Notes.
Folder 126
Conference papers - 1984.
Folder 127
‘The Resurrection of Love’, manuscript.
Folder 128
“I” is a Versatile Character, manuscript.
Folder 129
‘The Comedy of Sad’, manuscript.
Folder 130
News clippings.
Folder 131
Poetry and reviews.
‘Omnibus’,manuscript.
Folder 132
‘Now Mums Learning Chinese’, drafts.
Folder 133
Working notes.
Folder 134
Working notes.
Folder 135
Posters.
Folder 136
Various notes and drafts.
Folder 137
Various notes and drafts.
Folder 138
Correspondence.
Folder 139
Correspondence.
Folder 140
Correspondence.
Folder 141
Correspondence.
Folder 142
Correspondence.
Folder 143
Correspondence.
Folder 144
Correspondence.
Folder 145
Correspondence.
Folder 146
Two Diaries - 1986 and 1989.
Folder 147
Poetry and various writings.
Folder 148
Oeatiology.
Folder 149
Various writings.
Folder 150
Various notes and correspondence.
Folder 151
Burn, original manuscript (handwritten).
Folder 152
Burn, notes.
Folder 153
Burn, a novel.
Folder 154
Beyond This Morning, manuscript.
Folder 155
Correspondence.
Folder 156
Correspondence and various notes.
Folder 157
Address book.
Notebook with poetry, March 1986 - August 1986.
Folder 158
Diary/notebook, March to June 1986.
Folder 159
Indexed notebook/address book.
Folder 160
Notebook on her travels interleaved with tourist memorabilia.
Folder 161
Travel diary - Amsterdam, Oslo and other places, 1986. Tourist memorabilia interleaved.
Folder 162
Travel diary/notebook, London, September 1986. Tourist memorabilia interleaved.
Folder 163
Travel diary/notebook - France, Britain, 1986. Tourist memorabilia interleaved.
Folder 164
Travel diary/notebook - London, Amsterdam, Paris 22 August – 9 September 1986. Memorabilia and correspondence interleaved.
Folder 165
Correspondence 1983 - 1984.
Folder 166
Correspondence 1983 - 1984.
Folder 167
Correspondence 1984 - 1987.
Folder 168
Correspondence 1984 - 1987.
Folder 169
Correspondence 1984 - 1987.
Folder 170
Correspondence 1984 - 1987.
Folder 171
Correspondence 1984 - 1987.
Folder 172
Correspondence 1984 - 1987.
Folder 173
Correspondence - mainly postcards, Christmas and birthday cards etc,
1980 -1982.
Folder 174
Correspondence - mainly postcards, Christmas, birthday and other cards,from the early 1980s.
Folder 175
Correspondence - mainly postcards, Christmas, birthday and other cards, from the early 1980s.
Folder 176
Correspondence - mainly postcards, Christmas, birthday and other cards, from the early 1980s.
Folder 177
Correspondence - mainly postcards, Christmas, birthday and other cards, from the early 1980’s.
Folder 178
Correspondence from the mid-1980s.
Folder 179
Correspondence from the mid-1980s.
Folder 180
Correspondence.
Folder 181
Correspondence from the mid-1980s.
Folder 182
Correspondence - including postcards, from the mid-1980s.
Folder 183
Correspondence from 1983 - 1988.
Folder 184
Correspondence form 1983 - 1988.
Folder 185
Correspondence form 1983 - 1988.
Folder 186
Correspondence, including postcards, late 1980s.
Folder 187
Correspondence, including postcards, late 1980s.
Folder 188
Correspondence, postcards, mostly 1986.
Folder 189
Correspondence, postcards, mostly 1986.
Folder 190
Correspondence from the mid-1980s.
Folder 191
Correspondence from the mid-1980s.
Folder 192
Correspondence from the mid-1980s.
Folder 193
Correspondence from the mid-1980s.
Folder 194
Correspondence from the mid-1980s.
Folder 195
Correspondence, including cards postcards from the late 1980s.
Folder 196
Correspondence, including cards postcards from the late 1980s.
Folder 197
Correspondence, including cards postcards from the late 1980s.
Folder 198
Correspondence, including cards postcards from the late 1980s.
Folder 199
Correspondence from 1988 - 1991.
Folder 200
Correspondence from 1988 - 1991.
Folder 201
Correspondence from 1988 - 1991.
Folder 202
Correspondence from 1988 - 1991.
Folder 203
Correspondence, postcards and tourist maps from the late 1980s.
Folder 204
Correspondence, postcards and tourist maps from the late 1980s.
Folder 205
Correspondence, postcards and tourist maps from the late 1980s.
Folder 206
European tourist maps, transport maps, tickets, bank statements, etc.
Folder 207
Correspondence including postcards from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Folder 208
Correspondence - birthday and postcards, 1989.
Folder 209
Correspondence, including birthday and postcards from the late 1980s.
Folder 210
Newspaper clippings regarding the Tasmanian Poetry Festival 1989.
Folder 211
‘Now Mum’s Learning Chinese’, collection of poetry drafts, original.
Folder 212
Poetry drafts by Driver High School year 11 students.
‘Silence as a Second Language’ - handwritten draft.
Correspondence from publishers regarding Jenny Boult’s poetry.
Copies and original of Christmas greetings from Jenny Boult.
Folder 213
Poetry drafts by Driver High School year 11 students
Handwritten draft: ‘Silence as a Second Language’
Correspondence from publishers regarding Jenny Boult’s poetry
Copies and original of Christmas greetings from Jenny Boult
Folder 214
Copy of script ‘Ascent’.
Folder 215
‘Ascent’, draft copy of script
Newspaper clippings regarding mountain climbing and mountaineers.
South Australian Skiers Association Incorporated pamphlets and publicity.
Folder 216
Newspaper clippings about mountaineers, notes, possibly background material for Ascent script
Applications for admission to Business Studies Courses, plus pamphlets for
Adelaide College of TAFE.
Folder 217
Notes on character, background, chronology - chapter synopsis, and scenes.
Folder 218
Forever and ever, outline for a feature film by Jenny Boult, 1988, plus related
notes, clippings and photocopies.
Folder 219
Drafts: ‘Summertime Blues’; ‘Scat/Crisis in Energy Minor’; ‘Style (Caprices from: 24 Hours in the Long Room’; ‘Beat’ and other poetry drafts by Jenny Boult.
Folder 220
Draft copy of script ‘Beat’ by Jenny Boult.
Folder 221
Drafts of poetry/stories by Jenny Boult: ‘The Silent Treatment’; ‘The
Bewilderment Factor’; ‘Coming Down Again’; ‘Gumboots’; ‘Ruby Tuesday’;
‘One for the Road’; ‘Season of Glass’; ‘Rainy Day Women’; ‘The Cure for
Love...’; ‘Lies’ and ‘Obsession’.
Folder 222
Draft of ‘Style’ by Jenny Boult.
Folder 223
Drafts of poetry/stories by Jenny Boult: ‘“Music is the Art of the Spirit”
Kirkegaard (and all you can Hear are Words)’; ‘The Distance of a Dream’;
‘Good Times Without a Street Directory’; ‘Beat’; ‘One for the Crack’;
‘Environment’; ‘Flight/Fantastic’ and ‘Acts of Contortion’.
Folder 224
Poetry drafts by Jenny Boult.
Folder 225
Poetry drafts by Jenny Boult.
Folder 226
Files: ‘Notes for the New Novel’.
Folder 227
Draft of ‘Passion’ a novel by Jenny Boult, plus related background material, notes and clippings.
Folder 228
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, Individual Artists, Lists’.
Folder 229
File: ‘Newspaper Clippings, Individual Artists, Lists’
Folder 230
File: ‘Newspaper Clippings, Individual Artists, Lists’
Folder 231
Performance poetry publicity.
1990 diary.
Address book.
Folder 232
Overland, No. 85, copy of published work, October 1981.
Correspondence with publishers.
Folder 233
Drafts of stories: ‘(For Maurice)’; ‘Cold Burn: Experiences of the Dalkon
Shield’ and ‘Obsession’.
Folder 234
Drafts of ‘Lies’, 1986.
Folder 235
Drafts of ‘Lies’.
Folder 236
Drafts of stories: ‘Blackjack’; ‘The Cure for Love’; ‘Season of Glass’; ‘Ruby
Tuesday’; ‘Coming Down Again’; ‘Pick me Up on your Way Down’; ‘The
Bewilderment Factor’; ‘Gumboots’; ‘One for the road’; ‘Rainy Day Women’ and ‘The Silent Treatment’.
Folder 237
Drafts of stories: ‘Gumboots’; ‘Rainy Day Women’ and ‘One for the Road’.
Poetry drafts by Jenny Boult and by Denis Aubrey.
Folder 238
Drafts of stories: ‘One for the Road’; ‘Ruby Tuesday’; ‘The Silent Treatment’;
‘Coming Down Again’; ‘Blackjack’; ‘Rainy Day Women’; ‘The Cure for Love’; ‘Season of Glass’; ‘Pick me Up on your Way Down’ and ‘The Bewilderment Factor’.
Folder 239
Drafts of songs and poetry.
Folder 240
Drafts of poetry, multiple copies, 1986.
Folder 241
Drafts of poetry, multiple copies, 1986.
Folder 242
Drafts of poetry, multiple copies, 1986.
Folder 243
Drafts of stories: ‘Show and Tell’ and ‘Intimate’.
Stories and drawing by children.
Folder 244
Correspondence, 1990 - 1991.
Folder 245
Scrapbook containing cuttings, clippings and photos.
Folder 246
Scrapbook, ‘Hotel Anonymous’.
Folder 247
Performance poetry publicity.
Folder 248
Personal blue notepad, 1992 - 1993.
Correspondence.
Written rough notes/ideas.
Folder 249
Original written manuscripts: The Fringe, 22/3/92; Easter Sunday, 19/4/92;
Life Cycle, 20/8/92; More Poems for my Father, 2/8/92.
Various untitled written manuscripts and lists.
Notepad.
Folder 250
Loose notes, correspondence and various untitled written manuscripts.
Original written manuscripts: Bed Time Stories, 20/7/90; Dingos Lament;
Sleeping with the Ninja, 15/2/93.
Folder 251
Various untitled written manuscripts, and loose notes.
Correspondence.
Original written manuscripts: The Shadow Rap; For John Zsantho; TheAdelaide Suite; For Rumanian Jon; Caprices from Another 24 hours from the Long Room.
Folder 252
Delphi questionnaire (Artists Programme).
Original written manuscript: At Friendly St; Liz, our Lady of Micturition; Scum; For John Santo.
Notepad: Correspondence to friends, ideas and poetry. 8/10/92.
Folder 253
Correspondence, royalty statements.
Many copies of typed manuscript The Yuletide Log.
The Yuletide Log, draft.
Resumes
Photocopies of correspondence to Dept. for the Arts.
Application form to Dept. for the Arts.
Folder 254
Correspondence from Tasmanian Poetry Festival plus information sheets and program.
Magazine on the ‘Salamanca Arts Festival.
Plane ticket.
Correspondence from friends and Tasmanian Arts Council and Salamanca Arts Festival.
Folder 255
Correspondence from Penguin Books, Julie Evans, Canberra Theatre
Company, Octopus Publishing Group, The Macmillan Company.
Information sheet from National Book Council and Loxton High school.
Angry Women Anthology.
Jenny Boult’s curriculum vitae.
Untitled draft of written manuscript.
Proofs for ‘Tree’.
Folder 256
Original typed poetry/prose: a; ‘Rattle’; ‘At the Third Stroke’; ‘40th Birthday’;
‘Bedtime Stories’; ‘Mildews Lament’; ‘Dream for Q6’; ‘For Mr Perfect.
Mr I’m Always Right’; ‘East of Friday’; ‘Fete’; ‘Groucho was a Libran Too’;
‘Past Lives/Future’; ‘Caprices from 24 Hours in the Long Room’; ‘A Poet
Asks the Hungarian to Leave’; ‘A Poet Escapes the Hungarian’; ‘Style (caprices from: 24 Hours in the Long Room)’; ‘Regular Visitors to a Poet’s Video Salon’; ‘Defrosting a Fridge with the Hungarian’; ‘Watching TV with the Hungarian’; ‘Network’; ‘Snookered’; ‘Let’s Liquidate’; ‘Movieola’.
Photocopies of newspaper clippings.
A letter written by Jenny Boult addressed to nobody.
Folder 257
Original typed poetry with photocopies: ‘Strange Day’; ‘At the Third Stroke....’; ‘Mildew’s Lament’; ‘Self Control’; ‘Indebted’; ‘Scenes From the Crowded Room’.Various typed caprices from ‘24 Hours in the Long Room: Style’; ‘Exit’(with photocopies).
Folder 258
Balance of Penguin pages.
Written draft, information on Jenny’s career and Acknowledgments.
Original typed poetry and prose: ‘Movieola’; ‘Good Times without a Street Directory’; ‘Flight/Fantastic’; ‘The Distance of a Dream’; ‘Obviating’; ‘Mixed Media’; ‘How Come? I’m Wondering’; ‘Insecurity’; ‘Friendly Streets Always Been a Bit Like Church’; ‘Some Men’; ‘Front Bar Playboy’; ‘The 1-10 of No Reason’; ‘Redressing Inertia’; ‘Here Comes the Sun’; ‘Form Guide’; ‘Cut Up / Century Hotel’; ‘Leaving’; ‘Autumn’; ‘Libretto For the Sound of Sap Rising’; ‘Heatwave’.
Folder 259
Correspondence from Penguin Books, Longman Cheshire, PLR committee and friends.
Print-outs of poetry intended for school lessons.
Folder 260
Receipt, artist engagement form, invitation to a book launch, advertisement for Duke Tribute, Christmas cards.
Correspondence from Puffin books, Sybylla Feminist Press, Perseverance
Poets Collection/2, Grundy Entertainment, ADFA, Perpetual Trustees,
Oxford University Press, ABC, Flinders University, Omnibus Books,
Fremantle Arts Centre, Hodder and Stoughton Publishers and from friends.
Original typed poetry: ‘Shopping’, ‘About Auntie Rose and Her Diet’.
Folder 261
Handwritten School rolls.
Christmas cards.
Correspondence from Sydney University, Wagga Wagga Writers,
Oxford University, Longman Cheshire and from friends.
Receipts.
‘Assessment of Application for Citizenship’ papers.
Invitation to party.
Folder 262
Correspondence from Rochford Press, South Australian Writers Centre,
The Friendly Street Poets, Longman Cheshire, Omnibus Books, Oxford
University and from friends.
Pamphlets for Cafe Tapas.
Untitled written manuscripts, rough ideas.
Plane ticket.
Rough idea of Acknowledgments and layout of a book containing her poetry.
Original typed poetry/prose: ‘Just Because it’s Friday’; ‘Message to Young Mothers’.
Folder 263
Draft for ‘Strange Days’.
Christmas cards plus card list.
Papers related to some photos in the Jenny Boult photo albums.
Typed manuscript: ‘One for the Crack’.
Folder 264
A work in progress tr(avail)ouble 2002-5: typescript drafts.
Folder 265
tr(avail)ouble: typescript draft
Folder 266
Travail: typescript draft
Folder 267
Tr(avail)ouble 2005 drafts and notes; includes notes written by MML Bliss for arrangements following her death.
Folder 268
Mouth - drafts
Folder 269
Draft poems
Folder 270
ASSTD Drafts 03: Chicks, Chooks and Lipstick talk; transparent batik blues; notes; somebody said; Transcript of recorded video interview with Magenta Maria Loveday Bliss, 9 July 2001, Launceston Police Headquarters, offence of arson/attempting to acquire a financial advantage.
Folder 271
Draft verse: call me linda lovelace (deep throat mix); mouth; his amulet; better left/ a step in the right before you were born;
Folder 272
Draft verse; application to Literature Board 2003
Folder 273
Giggle; draft verse
Folder 274
Poems: folder of verse
Folder 275
Truth : folder of typed verse with pages of hand written notes
Folder 276
Ravo manuscript
Folder 277
Ravo manuscript
Folder 278
Verse including legend; untitled folder containing various poems including Legend collection.
Folder 279
Ravo
Folder 280
Note pads (5) containing draft verse including Ravo, miscellaneous notes, speech for launch of Take it As Read anthology.
Folder 281
Travail drafts
Folder 282
Typescript manuscripts: Maddo Harley Died Last Night, a sequence of monologues; Ambitions, a sequence of monologues; Can’t Help Dreaming a script for performance, 1981; The Contortionists
Folder 283
Miscellaneous papers: draft verse, MML Bliss biography/bibliography, letters.
Folder 284
Writing Workshop outline
Folder 285
Miscellaneous handwritten notes including autobiographical notes, verse, Jim Bacon; typewritten autobiographical memoire whipping ferrules to a fishing rod
Folder 286
Shaken, manuscript, letter 1984
Folder 287
MML Bliss reviews
Folder 288
Draft verse: legend!; topical; Brothel E Love; various draft poems with annotated changes.
Folder 289
8 Notebooks 2003-2005
Folder 290
2003: notepad; folder containing miscellaneous items: letters, flyers, workshop outline, verse.
Folder 291
Notebooks 2001 (3)
Folder 292
Folder of miscellaneous material: letters, copies of poetry by various poets [c 2001]
Folder 293
Notebooks (4) 2002.
Folder 294
Undated notebooks and folders (5)
Folder 295
Letters 2000s
Folder 296
Letters 2000s
Folder 297
Cards: 50th birthday; Christmas 2004; 2002; birthday 2003
Folder 298
Festival: Material relating to 2003 Tasmanian Poetry Festival
Folder 299
Contents of folder To be answered – Bills, Urgent, Correspondence
Folder 300
Miscellaneous personal material 1: financial matters, medical, court, tenancy.
Folder 301
Miscellaneous personal material 2: financial matters, medical, court, tenancy.
Folder 302
Contents of folder Moving Stuff, Removalists, Letters from Council, tenants union.
Folder 303
Personal documents: passports; certificate of Australian citizenship; deed poll of change of name; school report Jennifer Mary Boult 1963; dissolution of marriage.
Folder 304
Launceston Word Exchange Certificate of Interest; Centenary of Federation – Tasmania Certificate of Appreciation
Folder 305
Limited edition artists‘ pages, Original artworks by Australian women artists including the book Setting the Pace: The Women’s Art Movement 1980-1983.
Folder 306
; Spit issue 2; poems from the poetry competition 2002, the Hamilton District Agricultural Show Society; Booranga News: three issueswith articles onMagenta Bliss.
Folder 307
Publications authored by Jenny Boult/MML Bliss including: Moonshine, Handbaggery, The Hotel Anonymous, About Auntie Rose, Ravo, the white rose and the bath, Legend!, here.
Folder 308
Miscellaneous items including items relating to funeral of Jenny Boult.
Publications containing verse by Jenny Boult: ‘9 2 5’, Patterns, Poet, fourW thirteen, famous reporter (several issues), Muse, River of Verse, republic readings 9, republic readings 7, republic readings 5, republic readings for two, Otis Rush, Tuesday Night Live (Fifteen Years of Friendly Street), Moorilla Mosaic, No. 4 Friendly St. Poetry Reader, Sidewalk.
Various publications, journals.
AV Item 1 (Audio cassette) ‘Stuck on Monday’
AV Item 2 (Audio cassette) Women’s Weekly 24/1/81. Poems from ‘The Hotel
Anonymous’.
AV Item 3 (Audio cassette) Bistro, Poetry reading - Saturday 23/3/85. Donna
McSkimming, Mick Bocchino.
AV Item 4 (Audio cassette) ‘Can’t Help Dreaming’ ABC Radio, 22/5/82.
AV Item 5 (Audio cassette) Writers Radio. ‘The M.P.W’ 1980.
AV Item 6 (Video Tape) ‘Yours - A home movie’.
AV Item 7 (45 Record) ‘Off the Record’.
AV Item 8 (Audio cassette and copy) Cliff Smyth, ‘Writing in the community’.
AV Item 9 (Audio cassette and copy) Wagga Wagga Writers Writers, 11/6/88.
AV Item 10 (Audio cassette and copy) DADA music, Master tape, ‘Red Ring Around
the City’. Festival Fringe 1986, Adelaide.
AV Item 11 (Audio cassette and copy) Alice Springs 8ccc.
AV Item 12 (VHS video cassette) ‘Maddo Harley Died Last Night’ Director: Wain
Fimo, Swinburne Film and TV School 1986.
AV Item 13 (Audio cassette) ‘Experts in Fear (extract) Jenny Boult, Chris Barnett. 20/8/84.
AV Item 14 (Film) ‘Streets Offcuts’ Adelaide 1979 - 80.
AV Item 15 (Film) M.R.C workshop, Adelaide 1979.
AV Item 16 (Film) untitled.
AV Item 17 (Film) Harbour plus poets in domain, Sydney 1979.
AV Item 18 (Film) untitled.
AV Item 19 (Film) untitled.
AV Item 20 (Film) ‘Streets Offcuts’ Adelaide 1979 - 80.
AV Item 21 (Film) ‘Streets Offcuts’ Adelaide 1979 - 80.
AV Item 22 (Film) untitled.
AV Item 23 film reel, untitled, fragile
AV Item 24 film reel untitled in metal container
AV Item 25 film reel, untitled, fragile
AV Item 26 (Film) untitled, in protective container.
AV Item 27 film reel with title ‘April (1)’
AV Item 28 Box of computer discs ‘Back up to 14/7/02’
AV Item 29 Box of computer discs untitled
AV Item 30 Box of computer discs (titled discs: giggle; poems to 14/7/02; Legend; poems to 14/7/02; Tim; complete Ravo back up.
AV Item 31 computer discs: Travail poems disc 1, 2,3, 4.
AV Item 32 3 computer discs: Unspoken, questions, mini-biog, gundagai, gateway, matong; Legend corrections 26/5/02, workshop outline, prim. Sch. Workshop, outlets.doc; Magenta Bliss 15/8/02 ravo contents.
Photo album 1
Large transparencies.
Photographs, friends on beach.
The Hotel Anonymous, transparencies and large B/W photographs and photo proofs.
Transparencies.
Photographs and slides of Sara Hopkin at the Festival Centre.
Slides.
Photographs of graffiti murals, baby Luc, baby Sam and a wedding.
Transparencies.
B/W photographs of a protest at the American base Exmouth.
Family photographs and a trip in Sydney.
Flower and leaf slides by Jane Kent for Jenny Boult.
One photograph.
Photo album 2
B/W photograph of Jenny Boult 1987.
Mad Poets Tour, Darwin and Tennant Creek photographs and transparencies.
Photographs of Jenny Boult, 1987, 1989 - 90, 1992.
Contact proofs of photographs of Jenny Boult.
Unusual transparencies.
Shaken, background slides.
Photo album 3
Various photographic prints, colour and black and white
Large format school photograph
AV Item 33 large film reel untitled
AV Item 34 (16mm film) Livia Ruzic
Poster x 3: ‘Not Drowning, But Waving’ - ‘Waking Up’, by Dario Fo &
Franca Rame & ‘Can’t Help Dreaming’, by Jenny Boult; performed by All
Out Ensemble at the Red Shed Theatre, Adelaide, 23 Sep.-11 Oct., 1981, &
Anthill Theatre, Melbourne, 15 Oct.-1 Nov. 1981
Posters:
Poster: ’Shaken’ and Maddo Harley Died Last Night, a Fullhouse Production
performed at the Red Shed Theatre, Adelaide, 18 Jul.-4 Aug. 1984
Poster
‘Spring Poetry Festival 1989’ Spoleto Fringe Festival (No. 1074)
Poster: ‘Tasmanian Poetry Festival’. (No. 1075)
Poster: ‘Night Club Poetry’. (No. 1076)