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Angry Penguins was an art and literary journal founded in 1940 by surrealist poet Max Harris, at the age of 18. Originally based in Adelaide, the journal moved to Melbourne in 1942 once Harris joined the Heide Circle, a group of avant-garde painters and writers who stayed at Heide, a property owned by art patrons John and Sunday Reed.
McAuley and Stewart decided to perpetrate a hoax on Harris and Angry Penguins by submitting nonsensical poetry to the magazine under the guise of a fictional poet. They created a fictional biography for the poet, whom they christened "Ernest Lalor Malley".
- Ernest Lalor Malley, 14 March 1918, Liverpool, England
- British
- Poetry
- The Darkening Ecliptic
Expressionism, Heide Circle, Angry Penguins. Patron (s) John and Sunday Reed. Albert Lee Tucker (29 December 1914 – 23 October 1999) [1] [2] was an Australian artist and member of the Heide Circle, a group of modernist artists and writers associated with Heide, the Melbourne home of art patrons John and Sunday Reed. [3]
His Angry Penguins co-editor was D.B. "Sam" Kerr, a fellow student and accomplished modernist poet who was killed in action in New Guinea in 1942. Their quest was a boldly rebellious one, to liberate Australian literature and art, seeking, as Harris put it, "a mythic sense of a geographical and cultural identity". - no less than a change in the Australian national self-perception.
Max Harris et Joy Hester. Angry Penguins est un mouvement littéraire et artistique avant-gardiste australien des années 1940. Le mouvement a été stimulé par une revue moderniste du même nom publiée par le poète surréaliste Max Harris, qui l'a fondée en 1940, à l'âge de 18 ans.
Max Harris's response, written for the 1944 Angry Penguins as an introduction to Ern Malley's poems, The Darkening Ecliptic: Ern Malley prepared for his death quietly confident that he was a great poet, and that he would be known as such. He prepared his manuscript to that end “there was no ostentation nor the exhibitionism of the dying in ...
The world’s greatest literary hoax. How two 1940s conservative Australian poets tried to mock modernism by submitting the works of fake poet Ern Malley to Max Harris, editor of Angry Penguins literary magazine. When the truth emerged, Harris was pilloried - and the fake poet became a star. SETTING THE SCENE.
