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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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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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Ern Malley: ROFL with adore floupette
(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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Tagged Adore Floupette, Amelia Walker, Christopher Brennan, Corporal Harold Stewart, David Brooks author, Ern Malley poetry, Evariste Vital Luminais, Gabriel Vicaire, Hal Missingham, Henri Beauclair, James McAauley Quadrant, Joy Hester Angry Penguins, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Harris Angry Penguins, Max Harris Australia, Max Harris Mary Martin bookshops, Poetry hoaxes, Quadrant Magazine, Richard Beresford, Sidney Nolan paintings, william dobell
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