Cassette tape recording of The Ern Malley Story, a radio documentary by poet/radio producer John Thompson (d.1968) concerning the hoax poet 'Ern Malley'

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Box 16

Component identifier:

Item 4

Content Summary:

Ern Malley was a persona and a body of work concocted in 1943 by the young poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart, and published in Angry Penguins in 1944. The documentary was first broadcast on ABC radio in 1959. Recording features Max Harris, Geoffrey Dutton, Barrett Reid, Harold Stewart, James McAuley and others, and includes the reading of a letter from 'Ethel Malley'. (The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry is the first anthology to feature the complete poetic works of Ern Malley).

Immediate source of acquisition:

Papers of John Tranter were first purchased by the Library in August 1977. Further instalments were purchased in December 1988 and February 1989, and donated under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme in May 1993, May 1994, and April 1995.

Names:

John Tranter

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