The greatest poet who never lived – Ern Malley at 80
- Written by Maggie Nolan, Director of AustLit, Associate Professor in Digital Cultural Heritage, The University of Queensland
Max Harris and Joy Hester, Melbourne, c.1943.Albert Tucker, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsEighty years ago, an exciting new poet was published in the modernist literary journal Angry Penguins. Of course, we all know now that Ern Malley was a hoax, so it can be easy to overlook just how blindsided Max Harris, Angry Penguins’ precocious...
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