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Tag Archives: Lieutenant James McAuley
ern malley:empty concoctions?
(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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Tagged Albert Tucker paintings, Arthur Boyd art, Corporal Harold Stewart, Ern Malley poetry, James Dickey author, John Betjeman, John Perceval art Australia, Joy Hester Angry Penguins, karl shapiro, Lieutenant James McAuley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Harris Angry Penguins, Max Harris Australia, Michael Heyward author, sidney nolan, sunday reed
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ern malley: hoaxing the last laugh
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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Tagged Albert Tucker paintings, Corporal Harold Stewart, David Brooks author, Ern Malley poetry, Herbert Read critic, James Macpherson, John De Burgh Perceval, John Perceval art Australia, Joy Hester Angry Penguins, Lieutenant James McAuley, Max Harris Angry Penguins, Max Harris Mary Martin bookshops, Michael Heyward author, Samuel Johnson, sidney nolan, sunday reed
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poetic hoax: because mal in french means bad
(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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Tagged Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd, Catherine Caris, Corporal Harold Stewart, David Brooks author, Dylan Thomas, Ern Malley poetry, Henry Treece, John De Burgh Perceval, John Perceval art Australia, Joy Hester Angry Penguins, Lieutenant James McAuley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Harris Angry Penguins, Max Harris Mary Martin bookshops, Reed, sidney nolan, Sidney Nolan paintings, sunday reed
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last laugh: angry down under birds
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
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Tagged Angry Penguins magazine, Brian Elliott critic, Corporal Harold Stewart, Ern Malley poetry, Ethel Malley, Harry Roskolenko, Lieutenant James McAuley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Harris Angry Penguin, Poetry hoaxes, sidney nolan art, Sidney Nolan Australia, Sidney Nolan paintings
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