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Ali Alizadeh Reviews David Brooks

The Sons of Clovis: Ern Malley, Adoré Floupette and a secret history of Australian poetry by David Brooks University of Queensland Press, 2011 ‘Ern Malley? Again?’ asks David Brooks at the outset of this new reading of what is, arguably, …

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Revealed: true identities of the Children of Malley II (3)

The continued persistence of a number of clearly-falsified poems by a somewhat greater though equally dubious number of so-called ‘Children of Malley‘ shocks us as much as it appears to have shocked our resident detectives and commentators.

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Children of Malley 2: Vogel’s Gang

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Who are the Children of Malley II?

The task of selecting and verifying the contributors to this issue was one that we did not really relish. The fact remains that even half a century after the fact, a lot of information relating to the Ern Malley affair remains under wraps or else so confused and contradictory as to send literary journal editors mad.

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Elizabeth Gralton: The Immortal Malley and the End of Modernity

The Ern Malley hoax provoked a debate that was not by any means unique to Australia. Indeed, the Ern Malley affair is simply an antipodean manifestation of a long-standing discussion in Western culture about the best way for literature and art to respond to the impact of modernity on society.

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Recasting the Mould: ‘Beyond is Anything’

Upon hearing of our Children of Malley II edition of Cordite, one of our readers sent us in an unexpected surprise. Lurking in the wings was a Malley encounter we never expected: we found that the hoax lives on.

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Ern Malley and the Art of Life

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’.

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Text and Paratext: Ern Malley and the Function of the ‘Author’

The immediate target of the Malley hoax was Max Harris and those associated with Angry Penguins, but McAuley and Stewart also had ‘bigger fish’, as it were, in mind.

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The Ern Malley Finger Puppet

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Five Malfunctions for Max

Professor Vogel Malley delivers five schismatic palimpsests for Max, providing an entreat to Children of Malley II.

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Children of Malley: Contributor Notes

Contributors to Children of Malley adopted 'noms de malley' for the issue but their identities were later revealed on the Cordite site. Poetry Editor: Liam Ferney. A Malley Spillway, Cliffs and Signals & Circles were all cobbled together by Luke …

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Greetings to the New Malleys

Ern Malley, the original dromedary of Australian poetry has been anthologised, criticised and mythologised beyond belief. It's perhaps sobering to reflect that while Ern Malley's creators, his twin Gepettos James Macauley and Harold Stewart along with his original sponsor Max Harris have passed from this world, Ern's legend lives on. What is it about Ern Malley that refuses to die?

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