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The Legacy of Ern Malley single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 The Legacy of Ern Malley
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    y separately published work icon Eureka Street vol. 14 no. 3 April 2004 Z1108823 2004 periodical issue 2004 pg. 36-38

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Ern Malley and the Art of Life Amelia Walker , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December vol. 34 no. 2010;
'During a panel at the 2010 Salt on the Tongue poetry festival in Goolwa, SA, one audience member slammed performance poetry as being ‘more about the poet than the poetry’. Their intention was to damn performance poetry as an inferior genre – the undereducated, overcelebrated, buck-toothed cousin of real literature. Inadvertently, though, the comment hit upon a much bigger issue than that same tired line in the sand. As a sometimes performance poet sitting just a few rows back, I was not so much insulted as amused by the attack. Yes, I thought to myself, there’s a grain of truth in that – perhaps not more, but often as much – but how is page poetry any different?'
Ern Malley and the Art of Life Amelia Walker , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December vol. 34 no. 2010;
'During a panel at the 2010 Salt on the Tongue poetry festival in Goolwa, SA, one audience member slammed performance poetry as being ‘more about the poet than the poetry’. Their intention was to damn performance poetry as an inferior genre – the undereducated, overcelebrated, buck-toothed cousin of real literature. Inadvertently, though, the comment hit upon a much bigger issue than that same tired line in the sand. As a sometimes performance poet sitting just a few rows back, I was not so much insulted as amused by the attack. Yes, I thought to myself, there’s a grain of truth in that – perhaps not more, but often as much – but how is page poetry any different?'
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