James McAuley
1917–1976James McAuley and Harold Stewart sent sixteen nonsense poems to Max Harris, prompting the Ern Malley literary hoax.
Particulars
James McAuley, with fellow poet Harold Stewart, concocted sixteen nonsense poems in a pseudo‑experimental modernist style.
They sent the poems to Max Harris, the young editor of the literary magazine Angry Penguins, and Harris raced them to publication, setting in motion Australia’s most celebrated literary hoax.
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