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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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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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