Well, the faux-Malley domino effect is certainly starting to manifest itself. Just two days ago we were reeling in shock at the revelation that the names of some of the contributors to Children of Malley II in fact bore no relation whatsoever to the names under which their poems appeared.

Now we’re forced to eat our hats for a second time and admit that *at least five more* of the Children of Malley II (or ‘Vogel’s Gang’ as we like to call it) are actually poets who (we assume) lead otherwise normal lives.

What possessed Adrian Wiggins to submit five poems under the name of Blinky ‘Bill’ O’Malley we’ll never know, but there you have it. Check out the comments section of F#!* Yeah for one example of just how weird and confusing this game is getting.

Matt Hetherington should have known better than to send us a poem under the completely fictitious name of Sally Malley, but deserves some credo for calling his concoction Trunk.

Michael Farrell, it seems, will stop at nothing in his quest to bamboozle us. Having thought we’d caught him out impersonating Dodi ‘Dodo’ Malley, we were double-barrellingly dismayed to learn that he had sent in a second submission under another totally bogus name. And that name, ladies and gentlemen, is Bradley Malley Trushott.

Jaya Savige evaded capture for quite a while but in the end was no match for the crack squad of commenters sifting through the poems for clues. His role in co-writing, together with Liam Ferney, the poem Glad Pews and the Good Steeple will go down in the annals of infamy.

And finally, Amelia Walker who, not content with penning an essay on Ern Malley and the Art of Life, decided to submit poems under the name of not one but four totally fabulated children of Malley as well. And thus we arrive, in more ways than one, at Subtopia.

Once again, loyal readers, we beseech your forgiveness for foisting these pretenders’ concoctions upon you. We trust you will enjoy what remains of the ‘true’ poetry of the Children of Malley II.