Mort Brandish
Mort Brandish
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Writing name for:
Adrian Lawlor
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A fictional poet originally created by Adrian Lawlor in 1940. The invention of the character of Mort Brandish was shared with Alister Kershaw and the two writers fabricated a life and death for Brandish in conversations and in print. Lawlor contributed Brandish's poems to the little magazine Comment in the 1940s. A short biographical piece on Brandish and the first poem were published in Comment No. 7, November 1941.
According to Kershaw the psuedonym was further complicated by Mort choosing to contribute two of his poems to Comment under the name Rosa Lemmone.
(Tom Thompson, A Comment on Mort and Malley, Southerly vol. 63 no. 2, 2003; introductory letter by Alister Kershaw to Mort Brandish : Collected Poems (The Angrier Penguins Press, [1994])
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