Angry Penguins (4 results)

Small Quarto exhibition catalogue, 16pp, illustrated, original illustrated wrappers, a near fine copy. Title essay by Peter Herbst First edition. From the collection of Australian art historian Leigh Astbury with his signature.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. -1949. pp. 40; 48; 55; 80; 92; 78. Larkin poems are Plymouth & Portrait; neither published till the Complete Poems. C.S. Lewis' 3pp poem is Arrangement of Pindar which is an early incarnation of the considerably altered Pindar Sang. Amis contributes 2 poems & writes on Larkin's A Girl in Winter. Valerie Pitt writes on Williams & Meyerstein on Baudelaire. Bowra translates 6 Russian poets also Reverdy by Gascoyne & Lorca by Campbell. 17pp. section of new Australian poets consists entirely of Ern Malley hoax poems*, original work by Angry Penguins editor, Max Harris as well as others by co-founder, Kerr in addition to Malley advocate, Geoffrey Dutton & fence hopper, Alister Kershaw. Sturdy but rudimentary blue cloth binding with maroon gilt-lettered cloth label on spine. Name & date of publication at head of all front wrappers. Heavy book; additional postage required. * This first UK appearance despite McAuley & Stewart's exposure almost immediately upon their Malley poems' first publication in 1944.…

London 1988. Sm. 4to. Orig. illust. wrapper. (176pp.). With frontispiece, and numerous illusts., some in col. NOTE: Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, May to August 1988.

A complete set of ten issues. The Angry Penguins Broadsheet was an offshoot of Angry Penguins, Australia's leading modernist literary magazine. The title came from Harris's poem, Mithridatum of Despair: "We know no mithridatum of despair/as drunks, the angry penguins of the night/straddling the cobbles of the square/tying a shoelace by fogged lamplight". The first magazine was founded in Adelaide in 1940 by Harris and his co-editor, D. B. "Sam" Kerr, and was published irregularly, with only nine issues in total. The art patrons John and Sunday Reed, together with Max Harris, published The Broadsheet, along with the later issues of the Angry Penguins magazine itself. Angry Penguins was famously the subject to one of the great literary hoaxes of the century by James McAuley and Harold Stewart. The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature observes that "the vigorous and legitimate movement for modernism in Australian writing. received a severe setback, and the conservative element was undoubtedly strengthened". 10 vols, quarto. Original paper wrappers, titles to front covers in black. Housed in a black solander box. Mildly toned; an excellent set.…