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The Outrageous Adventures of Tulips in Whatta Piss-off!! or Arfa Masbah cops a bewdy
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartHypoteneuse [Christine Webb]
[Mountain View]: [Christine Webb], No date.Cartoon strip narrative by Christine Webb, writing as Hypoteneuse, following the misadventures of Johnny Tulips in Melbourne. Shelton Lea makes a brief appearance. Circa 1985-6. Two copies recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria and Monash.
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Where Bees Dare
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartChristine Annisette Hypoteneuse Webblea [Christine Webb]
[Mountain View]: [Christine Webb], No date.Unpublished illustrated prose work centred on gardens and herbalism, with autobiographical reminiscences. Webb recounts her early years as a hippie in Melbourne, a period teaching in the city’s western suburbs, subsequent travels, and her return to a changed Melbourne, where she became immersed in the bohemian circles of Fitzroy and Carlton. The narrative concludes with a fictionalised account of her first meeting with Shelton Lea, which concludes with “let’s get out of the city”. A photocopied draft of text and illustrations in the style of the collaborative works produced by Webb and Lea during their prolific period of the mid to late 1980s from that “out of the city” cottage at Mountain View. Page 9 bears an additional paragraph in Webb’s autograph. Probably dating from around late 1985/early 1986, on the evidence of a letter addressed to Webb on 17 May 1986 referring to a rumour that she had “ditched” her gardening book, but credits her with having redeemed herself by delivering “a healthy, robust comic-book” into the world, quite likely ‘Outrageous Adventures of Tulips in Whatta Piss-off!!’, which appears from the letter already to have been completed and circulating.
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Caloundra Capers: Drawings & Sea Songs
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartChristine Webb; Shelton Lea
: Merripen Press, No date.Collection of drawings by Christine Webb with accompanying poems by Shelton Lea and Don Maynard, recording a trip together with Barrett Reid for some lollygagging in the Queensland sun at Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast. Unrecorded in Trove; the only copy traced is held among the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW Canberra. This copy inscribed by Webb to Lea, with the illustrations hand-coloured by her.
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Spare Angels: Poems
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea; Christine Webb
Mountain View: Podsucker Press, 1987.Second of the Webb-Lea Podsucker Press poetry pamphlets, gathering works by Terry Harrington, Ruth Cowen, Phil Motherwell, Mal Morgan, Rosemary Nissen and Barrett Reid, Lea’s long-time mentor, with illustrations throughout by Webb. Georgeff’s biography of Lea, Delinquent Angel, names Spare Angels specifically as representative of the couple’s photocopied, hand-distributed chapbook production of this period, and quotes a letter from Webb to Reid describing a photocopying mishap that displaced the poem ‘Point Lonsdale’ from its intended place at the front of the pamphlet to the back, where Ruth Cowen’s ‘Forever Vere’ was meant to sit. A single copy recorded in Trove, at Monash.
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Dressing My Girl in a Tu-Tu
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea
Mountain View: Podsucker Press, 1988.Self-published collection of Lea’s poetry, illustrated by Webb, produced at the couple’s Mountain View cottage under the Podsucker Press imprint, continuing the series begun with Split Lips and Spare Angels. A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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A Stillness Reserved Only For Stones
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea; Frank Kellaway
Mountain View: Clough Press, No date.Tribute pamphlet issued under another Webb-Lea Mountain View imprint, Clough Press (the cottage they lived in also known as Clough Cottage): two poems by Lea and one by Frank Kellaway in memory of John Reed, the Heide patron with which both Lea and his mentor Barrett Reid were closely associated. The rear cover carries an acknowledgement of the Ministry for the Arts grant that, per Georgeff, supported Lea’s prolific output during this period. A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria.
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The Love Poems
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea; Jenni Mitchell
Melbourne: Eaglemont Books, 1993.Collection of Lea’s love poems, published by his own Eaglemont Press in June 1993, limited to 1000 unnumbered copies, with drawings throughout by Jenni Mitchell, whose portrait of Lea from her Australian poets’ portraits series appears on the cover. Poems selected by Patrick McCauley; some had previously appeared in Overland and in Lea’s earlier collection Poems From A Peach Melba Hat. This copy signed by both Lea and Mitchell, with a flyer for Lea’s Eaglemont Books, at 81 Silverdale Road, ‘Specialising in Australian poetry. Call Shelton’, laid in.
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The Maggie Poem
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea
[Mountain View]: [Shelton Lea], No date.Poem printed in Lea’s usual 1980s photocopy Mountain View output, this piece about his relationship with the red-headed Irish prostitute Maggie, and her death by his side in a Melbourne park. Georgeff’s Delinquent Angel tells the story: “Shelton had, at various times, fallen into the arms of prostitutes. There was a history of unconditional mateship between Shelton and those girls, even from his early days in Kings Cross. They’d provided a safety net for him and he had reciprocated. Shelton believed in the notion of the good-hearted prostitute. ‘I’ve met a whole lot of them in my life and they’ve treated me kindly. They don’t treat themselves very kindly.’ Maggie was an Irish girl with mad flaming hair. She was a junkie. She was the girl Shelton had gone to after the break up with Barbara. Candle, her hoon (pimp) had her installed upstairs in a building in Fitzroy. ‘Any nap-jack could come and fuck her for ten bob, and Candle would take the money.’ She wanted to get away and Shelton had fought Candle to take her. They went to the seaside for a few days. When they came back, they took a flagon of port and went to the park, the dying ground, with the blackfellas and shared it with them. Shelton fell asleep in the sun on the grass, near the highrise flats. ‘Maggie slid around the corner for a dose of methadone. She came back and drank more port and when I woke up she was lying next to me dead.’ He wrote a poem for Maggie and said he thought it was grand and full of life. ‘That’s what it is to be a poet, to sing about life. There’s no time for bitterness, but I don’t walk through that park when I don’t think about Maggie …’ A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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Ballad of the Latrobe Valley-O
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea
[Mountain View]: Clough Press, No date.Self-published collection of poems by Australian poet Shelton Lea with illustrations by Christine Webb under another Webb-Lea Mountain View imprint, Clough Press (the cottage they lived in also known as Clough Cottage). A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW. This copy matching the record at SLV with the additional loosely inserted single sheet with the untitled poem with the first line “i’m here today for a winge.”
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Advantage Receiver
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea
[Mountain View]: [Shelton Lea and Christine Webb], No date.Self-published collection of poems by Australian poet Shelton Lea with illustrations by Chrissy [Christine Webb] published during their prolific 1980s photocopy output from their cottage at Mountain View. Two copies recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria and Monash, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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Two Poems: By Shelton Lea: New Poems
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea
Melbourne: Shelton Lea, 1969.Self-published broadside of two poems (Vietnam; Wrecked lungs) by Australian poet Shelton Lea published 26/5/1969 from his 84 Bridge Rd, Richmond address.
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Brando Meets Kookaburra: Poems
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea; Karl Gallagher
Mountain View: Podsucker Press, No date.Self-published collection of poems by Shelton Lea and Karl Gallagher under another Webb-Lea Mountain View imprint, Podsucker Press. Two copies recorded in Trove, at the National Library of Australia and the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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Split Lips
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea; Christine Webb
[Mountain View]: Podsucker Press, 1986.Australian poetry anthology self-published by Christine Webb and Shelton Lea from their cottage at Mountain View, Victoria, under the imprint Podsucker Press. Bringing together Lea and others from the Melbourne poetry scene: Phil Motherwell, Solly Elenberg, Robert Harris, David Shepherd, Eric Beach, Don Maynard, Ken Smeaton and Robin Horowitz, with illustrations throughout by Webb. The earliest of the couple’s home productions under this imprint.
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La Mama Poetica
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea
Melbourne: La Mama Theatre, [1990].Poster printed in a single red ink, for the long running poetry and spoken word event La Mama Poetica at La Mama Theatre, Carlton. Monday March 19 [1990] featuring Alison Croggon, Shelton Lea, Janet Boddy, Stephen H. Williams, John Irving, Tony Page, and George Gogos. This copy inscribed on the verso from Mal Morgan (who convened La Mama Poetica from 1985 to 1991) to Shelton Lea “Hi Shelley, Put these up for us, yrs – Mal”.
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Lives of the Poets Postcard Series
Read MoreMichael Sharkey
[Armidale]: Fat Possum Press, 1985.Australian poet Michael Sharkey’s postcard series, Lives of the Poets, published in the final years of his and Winifred Belmont’s regional NSW small press. Included with the series is a typed letter signed from Michael to Australian librarian and editor Barrett Reid gifting the cards, providing details for publication or bibliographical credit. All contained in the original hand-addressed postage envelope.
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Fitzroy Brothel: Poems
Read MorePi O
Melbourne: Strawberry Press, 1974.First poetry collection by Greek-Australian anarchist poet Pi O, who describes himself on the rear cover as an Armchair Libertarian. Tirades against the Trendies of Fitzroy interspersed with mathematically influenced concrete poems. He won the 2024 Patrick White Literary Award.
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Monster
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRobin Morgan
Melbourne: Melbourne Radical Feminists, No date.American radical feminist Robin Morgan’s first book of poems, originally published by Random House in 1972. The title poem, ‘Monster’, quickly became one of the best-known poems of the women’s liberation movement, with the collection selling thirty thousand copies in its first six months. Its most controversial poem, ‘Arraignment’, accused Ted Hughes of complicity in Sylvia Plath’s death through his infidelity and alleged violence. Although Morgan revised the poem before publication, Hughes threatened legal action. Without informing Morgan, Random House agreed to withdraw the book from Commonwealth markets in return for Hughes dropping the matter. Feminist presses across the Commonwealth responded with unauthorised ‘pirate’ editions, most produced with Morgan’s blessing. The first appeared in Canada and followed shortly after by editions in Australia and New Zealand. Each varied in content: some carried graphics by women artists, others photographs of Plath, others, as here, both versions of ‘Arraignment’. This Australian edition includes illustrations and a bibliographical preface by Melbourne Radical Feminists.
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Fallopian Tube Fallopianna & Madness (2 Volumes)
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartGaby [Gabrielle Antolovich]
Sydney: Fallopian Tube Press, 1974.The first two (and likely only) publications of the Sydney lesbian feminist press Fallopian Tube, featuring feminist and lesbian poetry and texts. Gabrielle Antolovich was a prominent figure in Sydney’s gay liberation and feminist movements, an early member of the Campaign Against Moral Persecution (CAMP) who, with her then-partner Sue Wills, appeared on the ABC’s landmark Chequerboard documentary in 1972 as one of the first openly lesbian couples on Australian television. Antolovich resigned from CAMP’s executive in 1974, citing sexism within the organisation, the same year these publications appeared, amid a broader shift among lesbian activists toward autonomous feminist publishing. Fallopianna is one of 100 numbered first printing copies produced in April 1974. Madness is one of 200 numbered first printing copies produced in December of the same year. Contains an erotic text by pioneering Australian feminist artist Vivienne Binns, noted as ‘the piece that no other publication would print’, along with contributions by Kerryn Higgs, Kate Jennings, and others.
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Mischmasch (Complete Set, 8 Volumes)
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJay Mandeville
Kansas City: Mischmasch Antigraphics, 1977-88.Dada art-zine, complete in 8 issues, No. VII with the supplemental booklet ‘The Pleasure Car’ laid in. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Leaves from the Diary of a Would-Be Initiate
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJay Mandeville
Kansas City: Cloud_Merchant for Mischmasch Antigraphics, No date.Dada occult art-zine being the narrative of an aspiring alchemist. This copy inscribed by the author in pencil on the rear cover. Unrecorded in OCLC.