Jacket 17 — June 2002 — Contents pageSpecial H O A X issue
John Ashbery; photo John Tranter Faking Literature Faking Literature: Patrick Herron: Ken Ruthven’s Faking Literature (and Ern Malley) Faking Literature: The Bibliography Ken Ruthven: — 25 pages of rare and hard-to-find source materials (including Ern Malley) Girls on the Run: Michael Leddy: Lives and Art: John Ashbery and Henry Darger (and Ern Malley)
John Ashbery and John Kinsella and John Tranter (and Ern Malley) — Ern Malley Feature 
Man believed to be Ern Malley, Sydney to Melbourne night express, 29 April 1941, Sun Photo Archive. 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] David Lehman — A Note on Harold Stewart [written after a visit with ‘Uncle Harold’ Stewart in Kyoto in 1990] 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. 
Ern Malley movie poster
Free movie poster 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. 
The Apotheosis of Ern Malley, by Gary Shead, circa 2001. Reproduced with the kind permission of the artist. The two figures in army uniform represent Harold Stewart and James McAuley. “I have found that people who go into parks at night go there for immoral purposes. My exper as police officer might under certn circs., tinge my apprecn of literature.” N E W : The court typist’s transcript, in full, of the trial of Max Harris, an editor of Angry Penguins magazine, for the offence of publishing indecent advertisements. The trial was held in the Adelaide Police Court in September 1944. Mr Harris was convicted of the offence and fined. The original has 74 typed pages. Edited by John Tranter in 2005, with emendations and notes. 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. See also Jacket 29 — David Brooks: “Petit Testament”: A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax] 
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.  Seiffert at piano Catherine Daly Marjorie Allen Seiffert and the ‘Spectra’ Hoax  Photo: Schuldt, Berlin, 2001, photo by John Tranter. Homi Bhabha
Schuldt: ‘Homi Bhabha and the Forty Words’ 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... You are at this page: Jacket 17 — June 2002 The URL address of this page is http://jacketmagazine.com/17/index.shtml |
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