This was most likely more true in Australia, as they were about two decades behind more internationally famous literary figures associated with modernism, such as Virginia Woolf or Dorothy Parker, both of whom found fame in the post-World War I era. Enter McAuley and Stewart, two writers who were more conservative in their approach to art. They derided the kind of literature and poetry that Harris and his gang published in Angry Penguins , which largely swept Australian literary culture, as far as influence went. Having recently had some of their own work rejected by publications, McAuley and Stewart joined forces to make a mockery out of Harris and Angry Penguins , if they could manage it. So, over the course of one day, they invented both a deceased fictional poet and his entire body of work. Ernest Lalor “Ern” Malley was born in Liverpool in March 1918. His father died young, and his mother moved him and his sister Ethel to Sydney, Australia, thereafter.…