Jacket 17 — June 2002 — Contents
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Special Hoax issue
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Editor: John Tranter |
Faking Literature:
Patrick Herron: Ken Ruthven’s Faking Literature (and Ern Malley)
John Ashbery and John Kinsella — ‘The Ern Malley poems’ |
Ern Malley Feature Ethel Malley — Letter to Max Harris, 28 October 1943 David Lehman — The Ern Malley Hoax — Introduction Max Harris — Introduction [his original Introduction to the Ern Malley poems in Angry Penguins magazine, Autumn 1944] Ern Malley — The Complete Poems Ern Malley’s recently discovered Last Will and Testament Max Harris — Two pieces [immediately following the Ern Malley poems in Angry Penguins magazine, Autumn 1944] John Thompson — The Ern Malley Story: audio — the 1-hour radio documentary in RealAudio, with the voices of all those involved in the hoax, made by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1959. You can download the free basic model of the RealAudio plug-in for your browser here: http://www.real.com/ John Thompson — The Ern Malley Story: transcript — the full transcript of the radio documentary above; first published as an Appendix to Clement Semmler, For the Uncanny Man — Essays, Mainly Literary, 1963. |
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Press Clippings from 1944 [... with thanks to Nicholas Pounder Voices magazine (Vermont, USA): Contents page, Number 118, Summer 1944 Max Harris: ‘Commentary on Australian Poetry’, from Voices magazine, Number 118, Summer 1944 Michael Ackland — Damaged Men — ‘...one day it will be irrefutably proved that James McAuley and Harold Stewart were really figments of the imagination of the real-life Ern Malley and in fact never existed! ’ — a 50-page excerpt from the book about the brilliant hoaxers who created Ern Malley. Michael Heyward — ‘Indecent, Immoral, Obscene’: a 60-page excerpt, dealing with the obscenity trial and the public crucifixion of Max Harris, from Michael Heyward’s book The Ern Malley Affair. Max Harris, Detective Vogelsang, and others — ‘Indecent Advertisements’: photographic copies of five pages from the transcript of the trial of Max Harris charged with the offence of ‘Indecent Advertisements’ in the Adelaide Police Court, 5 September 1944, courtesy Philip Mead. McKenzie Wark — ‘Black Swan of Trespass’ — a postmodern response. See also John Miles — Lost Angry Penguins in Jacket 12: with the deaths of D.B. Kerr and P.G. Pfeiffer as young Royal Australian Air Force airmen during World War II, Australia lost two original and promising poets. They were also among the founders of the Angry Penguin movement.
Photo, above right: man believed to be Ern Malley, |
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s
My magic is perfumed with rage. I giggle, I sing:
A three-page Introduction to this poetry-writing computer is given in English; a twenty-page paper by Enzensberger explaining the theory and operation of the machine is published (in German) in this issue of Jacket: Einladung zu einem Poesie-Automaten. An English translation of this paper is in preparation. |
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Catherine Daly: |
Schuldt: ‘Homi Bhabha and the Forty Words’
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Free Grass magazine: an electronic edition of the only extant number of Free Grass magazine, made up of HTML text and linked photographic images of the original printed pages. Free Grass, a five page mimeographed magazine, splashed into the pond of little ‘underground’ magazines in Australia in 1968. The editorial standards were loose, and there was a strong counter-cultural flavour to the thing. Strangest of all, it lived up to its title: it was literally free. But Free Grass had a secret... |
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