Catherine Bateson papers

One notebook  My Anthology by Helen Campbell, containing poems from various poets.

Copy of Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School Magazine, 1976, with first published poem on page 34

One typescript Dragon story written c. 1978, unpublished.

Copy of Entering the Labyrinth, Melbourne: Fling Poetry, 1988, now out-of-print, together with draft of A Week of Small, Sad Poems and 4 original prints by Robert David Hill (Ernestine Hill’s son), alternative illustrations not used.

Re-Visioning Mythology, an examination of three texts written by women and inspired by myth and Pomegranates from the Underworld, a poem sequence on the life of Persephone - as it could have been’, thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Bachelor of Letters, School of Humanities, Deakin University, Jun, 1989, examiners’ comments in holograph on reverse of title page and scattered through typescript

29 early and revised drafts of 14 difficult poems in this collection

Published in:

Bateson, Catherine (1990). Pomegranates from the Underworld, Kew, Vic : Pariah Press.

Complete revised draft of Pomegranates from the Underworld with holograph corrections, line breaks as well as deletions, pp3-71.

This material has been used in the following publications.

Published as:

Bateson, Catherine (1990). Pomegranates from the Underworld, Kew, Vic : Pariah Press.

Draft of Pomegranates from the Underworld with editorial queries, corrections by Jennifer Strauss and Barbara Giles (JS and BG), 49pp, and 3-page comments by Stephen J. Williams and 1-page report from Judith Rodriguez.

This material has been used in the following publications.

Published as:

Bateson, Catherine (1990). Pomegranates from the Underworld, Kew, Vic : Pariah Press.

Final draft of Pomegranates from the Underworld received by Pariah Press (Barbara Giles and Kristin Henry) 13 Sep 1990, 71pp, together with 6 original prints by Robert David Hill, Ernestine Hill’s son, submitted for use on cover, top one used.

This material has been used in the following publications.

Published as:

Bateson, Catherine (1990). Pomegranates from the Underworld, Kew, Vic : Pariah Press.

Correspondence and documentation relating to publication of this work by Pariah Press, as well as background/accounts/grant applications relating to that press including 4 letters of appreciation from Suniti Namjoshi, Julian Moore, Barrett Reid and Stan Mellick and 2 reviews and 5 letters from Margaret Bradstock, University of NSW, regarding setting this book for one of her courses and a reading at the University of NSW.

Incoming correspondence: Kristin (Pariah Press) to CB, no date, 1p, typescript; Suniti Namjoshi to CB, 10 Feb 1991, 1p, handwritten; Julian Moore to CB, 25 Oct 1991, 1p, typescript; Barrie Reid to CB, 5 Feb 1991, 1p, typescript; Stan Mellick to CB, 17 Feb 1986, 2pp, typescript; Stan Mellick to CB, 7 Jan 1987, 2pp, handwritten; Margaret Bradstock (School of English, University of NSW) to CB, no date, 2pp, handwritten; Margaret Bradstock to CB, 1 Jan ?, 1p, handwritten; Margaret Bradstock to CB, 7 Oct ?, 2pp, handwritten; Margaret Bradstock to CB, 7 Mar ?, 1p, handwritten; Margaret Bradstock to CB, 28 Apr ?, 1p, handwritten.

Other correspondence: Stephen Williams (Secretary, Board of Directors, Pariah Press) and Cliff Smyth (Director, Pariah Press) to Literary Board, Australia Council, 27 Feb 1991, 2pp, typescript with attachments

Reviews, documents, correspondence relating to the use of poems by Deidre Rubinstein in her theatrical production What’s a Girl to Do. Incoming correspondence: Jill Smith (General Manager, Playbox), 17 May 1994, 1p, typescript; Jill Smith, 6 Jan 1994, 1p, typescript; Deirdre Rubinstein, 26 May 1994, 1p, typescript; Jill Smith, 9 May 1996, 1p, typescript; Jill Smith, 12 Jul 1995, 1p, typescript.

Early drafts and re-writes of poems in this volume, including notes in holograph on Catherine’s son’s birth and illness and first ideas for poems in this connection leading to early drafts of poems forming the sequence ‘Note from Ward Seven West’, a poem from this sequence winning the John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award, last draft of the sequence includes holograph comments by Bev Roberts.

First draft of complete book (spiral bound), titled The Bones and the Song, with author’s minor corrections and comments,. 

Published as:

Bateson, Catherine, (1998), The Vigilant Heart, St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press.

Page proofs with amended title page, author’s comments on pink post-it slips, minor holograph corrections and deletions, 103pp and covering letter from author with suggestions for blurb and comments on editor’s suggestions, together with 4 faxed pages from Sue Abbey confirming final corrections and blurb, replies from Catherine and attachment of cover design

Incoming correspondence: Sue Abbey to CB, 12 Feb 1998, 1p, typescript; Sue Abbey to CB, 19 May 1998, 2pp, typescript; Sue Abbey to CB, 13 Feb 1998, 1p, typescript.

Outgoing correspondence: CB to Sue Abbey, 11 Feb ?, 2pp, typescript; CB to Sue Abbey, no date, 1p, typescript; CB to Sue Abbey, no date, 1p, typescript; CB to Sue Abbey, 29 Jan 1998, 1p, typescript.

Published as:

Bateson, Catherine, (1998), The Vigilant Heart, St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press.

Correspondence including 2 letters from Judith Rodriquez, one assessing manuscript just before leaving Penguin, the other congratulating author on its acceptance by UQP, letters from Sue Abbey on acceptance of The Vigilant Heart and UQP Publishing Agreement, publicity handouts, award notifications and reviews from Thylazine.

Incoming correspondence: Judith Rodriguez to CB, 3 Jul 1997, 1p, typescript; Judith Rodriguez to CB, 3 Sep 1997, 1p, handwritten; Sue Abbey to CB, 6 Sep 1995, 1p, typescript; Dinah Johnson (UQP) to CB, 8 Sep 1995, 1p, typescript and copy of publishing agreement, 4pp Sue Abbey to CB, 29 Oct 1997, 1p, typescript; Sue Abbey to CB, 12 Jun 1998, 1p, handwritten; Rosemary Chay (UQP) to CB, no date, 1p, handwritten; Sue Abbey to CB, 3 Mar 1998, 1p, typescript; Tim Jacobs (Deputy Director, Programs, Victorian Ministry for the Arts) to CB, 31 Oct 1991, 1p, typescript.

Outgoing correspondence: CB to Sue Abbey, no date, 1p, handwritten.

Only copy of a sequence of poems on Gwen John, Love's Prison-Cell, originally proposed for this volume but it was felt there were enough sequences without them.

Incoming correspondence: Barbara Giles to CB, no date, 2pp, handwritten; Jacqui Turnbull to CB, no date, 3pp, handwritten.

Very early drafts of first version titled, The Innocent Bystander  Brisbane, 1982-1997, all discarded approaches and openings.

Prose drafts of individual chapters, 3 Sep 1997, chapters 1-6, 4 Apr 1998, 29pp, plus duplicate set pages 1-21 with comments by Louise Campbell and additions 4 May 1998, 7pp and 22 May 1998, 9pp.

Completely revised chapters, 7 Aug 1998, chapters 1-5, 50pp, with comments and suggestions faxed by Sydney Smith, decided to re-write as a verse novel to establish characters' voice.

Published as:
Bateson, Catherine, (2000), A Dangerous Girl, St. Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press.
 

Revised draft as a verse novel, with earlier versions of poems that were revised for this draft interspersed at appropriate pages, spiral bound, iv, 95p

Published as:
Bateson, Catherine, (2000), A Dangerous Girl, St. Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press.
 

Draft edited by Leonie Tyler, UQP, with author’s final page revisions/corrections on white pages, many with yellow post-it indicators, page numbering inconsistent,

Published as:

Bateson, Catherine, (2000), A Dangerous Girl, St. Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press

Notes on talk/reading for years 11/12, Kyneton Secondary School, unit of work on A Dangerous Girl, teaching notes, Exploring the perplexities of form and absence in Australian verse novels reproduced from The Looking Glass, 2 April, 2003, 11pp, publicity material and reviews.

Reviews and book cover designs.

Preliminary notes in holograph for the story, 7pp, research material on the powerful owl and ABC’s Race Round Oz and reviews

First revised draft, comments by Louise Campbell and interspersed earlier versions of individual poems on loose sheets and working pages for order and character-weighting of poems, 112pp, 13 loose sheets and working pages

Published as:

Bateson, Catherine, (2001), The Year It All Happened, St. Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press

Draft edited by Felicity McKenzie (UQP) and corrections by author

Published as:

Bateson, Catherine, (2001), The Year It All Happened, St. Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press.

Final page proofs, no corrections,

Published as:

Bateson, Catherine, (2001), The Year It All Happened, St. Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press.

Reviews

Incoming correspondence: Jill Vines (Head of English, Toorak College) to CB, no date, 1p, typescript, plus attachments.

First approach, 4 early versions of short story A Hole in the Heart which won the Footscray Community Centre short story competition, 1992, characters and incidents from this story became characters in Painted Love Letters

Complete new drafts of the first 3 stories and revisions, 2 with comments by Sydney Smith, the third with holograph notes about possibility of Varuna application after speaking to Sydney Smith when she had read the third story, 

First draft written under mentorship of Hazel Edwards at Varuna, some stories with day of the week they were written at Varuna, 66pp, first attempt there of writing a blurb as well as an account of my Varuna stay, titled 'Heaven', 3pp and other Varuna documentation.

Drafts of 2 further stories, Becoming Carnivores, 6pp, and The Best Kissers in the Universe 8pp, 1999-2000

Final draft as submitted, 62pp, with reader's report by Rayma Turco, UQP, 1p and minor corrections by author, emails between editor, Leonie Tyle and Catherine Bateson regarding readership ages, 3 emails, 5pp

Page proofs, with editing by Rayma Turco and corrections by author, iii-viii, pp4-51, last page missing.

Published as:

Bateson, Catherine, (2002), Painted Love Letters, St. Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press

Reviews and awards, correspondence, Ted Turnley to Louise Campbell, 22 May 2002, 1pp; Dutch Edition Mijn held, Antwerp/Amsterdam, Houtekiet, 2002

Notebook covering genesis of story with editors comments noted and interspersed and 'Moving', first approach and chapter, 7pp.

First draft, with first 5 pages re-written in 3, pp 5-94 typed both sides paper, pp 95 on typed single pages with author’s corrections in brown holograph throughout, Reader's Report, 2pp.  

Published as:

Bateson, Catherine, (2002), Rain May and Captain Daniel, St. Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press.

Documentation relating to awards including, Queensland Premier's Literary Award and Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year, reviews, children's letters from Townsville and study notes for US edition titled 'Stranded in Boringsville'.

Cover proofs and notes. US Edition 'Stranded in Boringsville', New York, Holiday House, 2002.

Incoming correspondence: Ken Smeaton to CB, 2 Mar 1995, 1p, typescript; Ken Smeaton to CB, 6 Nov 1996, 1p, handwritten; Bev Roberts to CB, 15 Oct 1997, 2pp, typescript; Edwina Preston to CB, 10 Nov 1997, 1p, handwritten; Hugh Tolhurst to CB, 9 Nov 1997, 1p, typescript; Margaret Bradstock to CB, 11 Nov 1997, 1p, typescript; Pam Brown to CB, 17 Nov 1997, 1p, typescript; Kristin Henry to CB, 30 Nov 1997, 1p, typescript; Luke Flood, Actual Size to CB, 4 Dec 1997, 4pp, typescript; Peter ? to CB, 5 Dec 1997, 1p, handwritten; Fay Zwicky to CB, 8 Dec 1997, 1p, typescript; Philip Mead to CB, University of Tasmania, 9 Dec 1997, 1p, typescript; Komninos Zervos to CB, 3 Jan 1998, 1p, handwritten; Bev Roberts to CB, 5 Jan 1998, 2pp, typescript;

Bev Roberts to CB, 13 Jan 1998, 2pp, typescript; Bev Roberts to CB, 27 Jan 1998, 1p, typescript; Bev Roberts to CB, 10 Feb 1998, 2pp, typescript; Bev Roberts to CB, 17 Mar 1998, 2pp, typescript; Bev Roberts to CB, 16 Apr 1998, 1p, typescript; Bev Roberts to CB, 8 Jun 1998, 1p, typescript.

Outgoing correspondence: CB to Bev Roberts, no date, 2pp, typescript.

Other: Richard Tipping, Thorny Devil Press to Bev Roberts, 9 Jun 1997, 1p, typescript; Lynn Hard, Librarian, ADFA to Bev Roberts, 3 Jun 1997, 1p, typescript; Kevin Brophy to Bev Roberts, 3 Jun 1997, 2pp, typescript; Juno Gemes, Paper Bark Press to Nancy Cato, 24 Apr 1997, 1p, typescript;

Martin Harrison to Bev Roberts, 18 Apr 1997, 2pp, typescript; Dorothy Porter? to the NPF Committee, no date, 3pp, typescript; Kristin Henry to Bev Roberts, 3 Jun 1997, 2pp, typescript; Ken Smeaton to Bev Roberts, 3 Feb 1997, 1p, typescript; Harry Williamson to NPF Committee, 4 Feb 1997, 2pp, typescript; Miriel Lenore to Bev Roberts, 6 Dec 1997, 1p, typescript; Ron Pretty to Bev Roberts, 27 Dec 1997, 1p, typescript; Kate Llewellyn to Bev Roberts, 20 Jan 1998, 1p, typescript; Martin Harrison to Bev Roberts, 2 Feb 1998, 1p, typescript; NPF Committee, 20 Feb 1998, 1p, typescript.

Minutes, agendas, and other documents regarding the National Poetry Festival from 1996 - 1999

Miscellaneous documentation regarding the National Poetry Festival.

Documentation including reviews, promotional material and correspondence relating to La Mama Poetica.

Incoming correspondence: Berni Janssen, Next Wave Festival to CB, 22 Mar 1994, 1p, typescript.

Outgoing correspondence: CB to Lyndon ?, no date, 2pp, typescript

Documentation and correspondence relating to 'Overland Extra'.

Incoming correspondence: John Jenkins to CB, 19 Jul 1990, 2pp, handwritten; John Jenkins to CB, 23 Jul 1990, 2pp, handwritten; Barrett Reid, Editor, Overland to CB, 1 Aug 1990, 1p, typescript; Des Cowley to CB, 24 Dec 1990, 1p, handwritten; Nicollette Stasko to CB, 15 Jan 1991, 1p, handwritten; Barrett Reid to CB, 17 Apr 1991, 1p, typescript; Barrett Reid to CB, 27 Aug 1991, 1p, typescript; Shirley McLaren, Treasurer, Overland to CB, 2 May 1994, 1p, handwritten; Alex Skutento, Overland to CB, 30 May 1994, 1p, handwritten; Des Cowley to CB, no date, 1p, handwritten; Des Cowley to CB, no date, 1p, handwritten.

Other: Barrett Reid, to Nic Basiliadis, 20 Jun 1990, 1p, typescript; Virginia Bernard to Barrett Reid, 22 Jul 1990, 1p, typescript.

In 1994 Bateson wrote to various poets to list the ten books they thought had changed or helped form their writing lives. A list of poets who responded is included with the responses.

Reviews by Bateson and some responses to these

Three published novels by Catherine Bateson: 'Pomegranates from the Underworld', 'Painted Love Letters', and 'Rain May and Captain Daniel'.