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- y Phoenix D. B. Kerr (editor), Molly Swan (editor), C. B. Ashton (editor), Herbert Piper (editor), Margaret McKellar Stewart (editor), Russel Ward (editor), R. A. Blackburn (editor), Margaret McKellar Stewart (editor), Victor C. Matison (editor), Maurice Finnis (editor), Margaret McKellar Stewart (editor), Russel Ward (editor), Helen Wighton (editor), Finlay Crisp (editor), Margaret Hubbard (editor), Adelaide : Adelaide University Union , 1935-1950 Z976657 1935-1950 periodical (4 issues)
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Miss Ackroyd Writes:
Joyce Irene Ackroyd
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1944
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— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 5 no. 3 1944; (p. 57-59) - y Angry Penguins Broadsheet Max Harris (editor), James McGuire (editor), Sidney Nolan (editor), Harry Roskolenko (editor), Melbourne : Reed and Harris , 1946 Z917288 1946 periodical (10 issues) Because of war-time restrictions, Angry Penguins (without a periodical licence) could only be published annually. As an alternative, the Angry Penguins Broadsheet appeared for ten issues during 1946, edited by Max Harris, James McGuire and Sidney Nolan. The Angry Penguins Broadsheet published work by foreign authors such as Dylan Thomas, Henry Miller and Jean-Paul Sartre, asserting the same international focus that appeared in the annual. Supporting the avant garde modernist stance of Angry Penguins, the aim of the broadsheet was strongly stated in the first issue: 'It is . . . the function of this broadsheet to attack bad art on the one hand and to attack those debased values in the community which demand and perpetuate bad art.' To achieve this aim, each issue contained reviews of books, theatre, cinema, visual arts and music sometimes gathered under the title 'The Critical Eye'. The selections of poetry were dominated by overseas authors, but Harris and McGuire made several contributions. When war-time restrictions were lifted on 1 March 1946, Angry Penguins was to appear quarterly, but the July issue of 1946 was the last. The Angry Penguins Broadsheet also faltered, ending its run in December 1946 (this issue edited by Harris and Harry Roskolenko) after issues failed to appear in October and November.
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Ern Malley's Journal
Max Harris
(editor),
Barrett Reid
(editor),
John Reed
(editor),
1952
Heidelberg
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National Press
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1952-1955
Z923236
1952
periodical
(4 issues)
The Autumn 1944 issue of Angry Penguins celebrated the poetry of the deceased Ern Malley, discovered when the poet's sister forwarded a clutch of poems to the editor Max Harris. The poems were later discovered to be a hoax perpetrated by the poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart to expose the aesthetic weaknesses of Australia's modernist movement. Despite the humiliation of the Ern Malley hoax and the subsequent prosecution for publishing indecent material, Harris continued to argue the literary merit of the poetry McAuley and Stewart had intended to be inferior. Most notably, he used the name of the poet for his 1950s extension of the Angry Penguins program, Ern Malley's Journal.
Edited by Harris, John Reed and Barrie Reid, the first number appeared in November 1952, containing poems from Harris, Reid, Joy Hester and others. The journal also supported the short story, initially including contributions from Peter Cowan and Dal Stivens. Most of these writers contributed to later numbers with other contributors including Judith Wright. While not as vigorous as its predecessor, Ern Malley's Journal continued to promote a modernist aesthetic; and like Angry Penguins, Ern Malley's Journal promoted modern art, including reproductions of the work of Charles Blackman, Bob Dickerson and Arthur Boyd.
Ern Malley's Journal survived for only six numbers. The first signs of trouble appeared when the fourth number was published in November 1954, many months overdue. The editorial for that number directed blame outward at what the editors saw as a weak literary culture: 'it is fairly obvious that at the moment there is simply not the volume of creative writing in Australia we had hoped to unearth, nor is there the type of public interest and enthusiasm which best encourages the development of talent.'
The final two numbers appeared during 1955. Without subsidies or a strong subscription base Ern Malley's Journal could not survive. This was Harris's last attempt at a modernist 'little magazine', but he continued to produce magazines, founding and editing, with Geoffrey Dutton, Australian Letters and the Australian Book Review.