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Issue Details:
First known date:
1940...
no.
[1]
1940
of
Angry Penguins
est. 1940-1943
Angry Penguins
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Notes
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Title page has as an epigraph : 'as drunks, the angry penguins of the night ...'. These lines from Harris's poem "Mithridatum of Despair' are the source of the journal's title.
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This issue also includes an essay by J. B. Swan titled 'Tonality and Modern Music'. Essay not indexed separately.
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Contents indexed selectively
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1940 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Two Poets, single work criticism (p. 9-17)
- At the Windowi"The last dismantled star flung into space,", single work poetry (p. 10)
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The Posts Around the Cemetery ...i"The posts around the cemetery are white",
single work
poetry
(p. 18)Contrasts the drunken reverie of two men outside the cemetery with a pious man walking within the fence posts.
- Untitledi"slowly he limps the stuck white line", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Untitledi"the tempered clacking of a macabre catechism", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Untitledi"before I die in this dirty cell", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Cross-Sectioni"The black duck swish across the plains and peaks", single work poetry (p. 21)
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The Pelvic Rose,
single work
column
(p. 22)Harris gives a brief account of his use of symbolism and 'biological imagery' in the poem 'The Pelvic Rose'. He describes the poem as 'contemporary in spirit and technique', but 'primitive in its nature'.
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The Pelvic Rosei"the pelvic rose unfolding the flesh",
single work
poetry
(p. 23-27)
Note: At foot of poem: Nov. 3, 1940
- Quatraini"breaking on rocky shores of dead time", single work poetry (p. 28)
- Benti"beyond now", single work poetry (p. 28)
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Concessionsi"granting the water-rats",
single work
poetry
(p. 29)
Note: At foot of poem: Jan. 13, 1941
- Preparationi"with the children married the old folk prepare to die;", single work poetry (p. 30)
- Imagei"Standing in the water, feeling the ceaseless caressing", single work poetry (p. 31)
- "Forget not tern cry over pallored beach" Songs in Wartime : Ii"Forget nor [sic] tern cry over pallored beach", single work poetry (p. 32)
- Songs in Wartime : IIi"My love has bargained with a tear", single work poetry (p. 32)
- Songs in Wartime : IIIi"Sweet your wonder wandering words,", single work poetry (p. 32)
- "This tenor of the heart," Sonneti"This tenour of the heart,", single work poetry (p. 33)
- On First Seeing a Portraiti"That day I saw in you", single work poetry (p. 34)
- Motif from Marvelli"Darling, in a handbreadth hurl", single work poetry (p. 35)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Second Angry Penguins
1941
single work
column
— Appears in: Angry Penguins , August no. 2 1941; (p. 7-8) Under the sub-heading 'The Matter', Harris explains the rationale behind the works included in Angry Penguins no.2. Under the sub-heading 'The Circumstance', he comments on the literary content of magazines sponsored by Australia's universities and very briefly notes the reviews to Angry Penguins no.1.
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The Second Angry Penguins
1941
single work
column
— Appears in: Angry Penguins , August no. 2 1941; (p. 7-8) Under the sub-heading 'The Matter', Harris explains the rationale behind the works included in Angry Penguins no.2. Under the sub-heading 'The Circumstance', he comments on the literary content of magazines sponsored by Australia's universities and very briefly notes the reviews to Angry Penguins no.1.
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