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The Angry PenguinsCentred around poet Max Harris, the movement took their name from an art and literary magazine first published by Harris in 1940. The Angry Penguins, to quote Max Harris, expressed 'a noisy and aggressive revolutionary modernism' and represented the new l...
He has brought to the Internet, Jacket, a website dedicated to Australian literary history, reviews, articles and interviews and everything to do with poetry. Extensive content relating to the Ern Malley affair appears in Jacket 1, including some of Mall...
Modern Australian poetry seeks to tell Australian stories and truths with a poetic significance so that 'they sear into the soul and can never be untold' (Dorothy Porter). The Jindyworobaks encouraged Australian writers to express themselves in language ...
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Ern Malley - the Official Website (more info)
Website devoted to the great literary hoax, the Ern Malley Affair, when conservative poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart submitted a fake poet to Angry Penguins editor Max Harris in an attempt to mock the Australian modernist movement. Visit for a hist
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Ern Malley Affair, The - literary history (website Experimental Art Foundation )TITLE Ern Malley Affair, The - literary history AUTHOR HEYWARD, Michasel DESCRIPTION Maybe the biggest literary hoax of the twentieth century. A foundational one for modern Australian poetry. If you would like further info please use our REQUEST FORM to...
On the afternoon of Tuesday, 1 August, Max Harris was at work on the new issue of Angry Penguins in the Reed & Harris office in the centre of Adelaide. Harris had published a poem called Birdsong in the Autumn issue of Angry Penguins but Vogelesang passe...
Women Writers Feature in Australia Day Honours Five women represented the writing community in this year's Australia Day Honours. Local Publishing House Sold to Time Warner Books Australian publisher, Lothian, has recently been acquired by the internatio...
Women Writers Feature in Australia Day Honours Five women represented the writing community in this year's Australia Day Honours. Local Publishing House Sold to Time Warner Books Australian publisher, Lothian, has recently been acquired by the internatio...
But if Harris is being stung that makes McAuley the mosquito—even though he says he has found ‘my anopheles’—his own mosquito. The Malley poems functioned as kind of rapid marriage and family life, and Stewart refers not once, but...
The notorious Ern Malley Affair of 1943–44 was Australia’s greatest literary hoax and its impact on Australian cultural history has resonated for more than sixty years. The poems of the fictitious Ern Malley were written by two young poets Ha...
Just 15 minutes from Melbourne's CBD, Heide Museum of Modern Art is one of Australia's leading public art museums. Within a unique environment of art and design, architecture and landscape, Heide has a rich and colourful social history and art heritage. O...
A Fine Yarn: Innovations in Australia’s wool industry is an exhibition developed and presented by the National Museum of Australia. 1940s Melbourne: Photographs by Albert Tucker presents an artist’s view of Melbourne during a tumultuous decad...
First Published in Art + law December 2004." Beyond the ethical questions are the legal issues: which are an important consideration for any author about to sign a publishing agreement. Links to articles on Publishing, warranty, indemnity, responsibility ...
He has brought to the Internet, Jacket, a website dedicated to Australian literary history, reviews, articles and interviews and everything to do with poetry. Jacket 2 focuses on poet John Ashbery with a selection of poetry, interviews, photos and essays...
Centred around poet Max Harris, the movement took their name from an art and literary magazine first published by Harris in 1940. The Angry Penguins, to quote Max Harris, expressed 'a noisy and aggressive revolutionary modernism' and represented the new l...
Modern Australian poetry seeks to tell Australian stories and truths with a poetic significance so that 'they sear into the soul and can never be untold' (Dorothy Porter). The Jindyworobaks encouraged Australian writers to express themselves in language ...
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Peter Porter Photograph courtesy of Oxford University Press A Vision Painted on a Wall Peter Coleman recently travelled to London and interviewed expatriate poet Peter Porter for the National Library' s Oral History Program. Each deeply admires the other...
The artist Garry Shead has taken out the $20,000 Dobell Prize for Drawing with an imposing homage to one of the country's most infamous literary hoaxes. His winning drawing was accompanied by a plaque featuring one of the 16 poems by Ern Malley, the ficti...
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