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==Angry Penguins==
Harris read the poems with, as he later recalled, a mounting sense of excitement. Ern Malley, he thought, was a poet in the same class as [[W. H. Auden]] or [[Dylan Thomas]]. He showed them around his circle of literary friends, who agreed with him that a hitherto completely unknown modernist poet of great importance had been discovered in suburban Australia. He decided to rush out a special edition of ''Angry Penguins'', and commissioned a painting by [[Sidney Nolan]], based on the poems, for the cover.
The "Autumn [[1944]]" edition of ''Angry Penguins'' appeared in June (it ran late due to wartime printing delays). Harris eagerly promoted it around the small world of Australian writers and critics. The reaction was not what he had hoped for, or expected. An article appeared in the [[University of Adelaide]] student newspaper ridiculing the Malley poems, and suggesting that Harris had written them himself in some elaborate hoax. Others began to ask, who was this Ern Malley? Why had no-one ever heard of him?
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