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Ern Malley

Born

in Australia

March 14, 1918

Died

July 23, 1943

Genre

Poetry

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'Ern Malley' was a fictitious poet created by conservative Australian writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart. Both men believed that modernism had gone too far, and they wanted to create a scandal.

In late 1943, McAuley and Stewart wrote a volume of poems by 'Malley' taking lines from a variety of sources including Shakespeare, dictionaries of quotations, and instruction manuals, and giving them a stereotypical modernist edge. The 17 poems - collected as "The Darkening Ecliptic" - were sent to the left-wing poetry journal 'Angry Penguins' with letters purporting to be from Malley's sister, who had discovered the poems after her motor mechanic brother's tragic death aged 25.

Angry Penguins editor Max Harris published the poems, with Malley' ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 38 ratings · 8 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Collected Poems 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1944 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Darkening Ecliptic by Ern Malley, James McAuley, Harold Stewart 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1944 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	2025 MIKI Prize for Short Stories: Anthology 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Ern Malley (?)

“I had read in books that art is not easy
But no one warned that the mind repeats
In its ignorance the vision of others. I am still
the black swan of trespass on alien waters.”
― Ern Malley, The Darkening Ecliptic

tags: anxiety-of-influence, artists, impostor-syndrome, poetry

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