Tag Archives: Corporal Harold Stewart

ern malley:empty concoctions?

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Dave

(see link at end)…It wasn’t long between the publication of the Ern Malley poems in the Autumn 1944 issue of Angry Penguins, and the revelation in the Adelaide and Sydney newspapers that they had been dashed off as a joke … Continue reading →

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ern malley: hoaxing the last laugh

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Dave

Australia. 1944. Were their poems worthless, masterpieces or elaborate put-ons? Almost seventy years after their composition, no one is really that sure. For it is part of a celebrated hoax that fooled the critics and set modern poetics askew. “Deliberately … Continue reading →

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poetic hoax: because mal in french means bad

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Dave

(see link at end)…In a single rollicking afternoon McAuley and Stewart cooked up the collected works of Ernest Lalor Malley. Imitating the modern poets they most despised (‘not Max Harris in particular, but the whole literary fashion as we knew … Continue reading →

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Ern Malley: ROFL with adore floupette

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Dave

(see link at end):THE greatest literary hoax of the twentieth century was concocted by a couple of Australian soldiers at their desks in the offices of the Victoria Barracks in Melbourne, land headquarters of the Australian army, on a quiet … Continue reading →

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last laugh: angry down under birds

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Dave

Seven decades after its composition, no one is quite sure. For it is part of a celebrated hoax that fooled the critics and set modern poetics askew….How Ern Malley got the last laugh…. The intemperate torch grazed With fire the … Continue reading →