The Darkening Ecliptic

First published in 1944 this group of modernist poems was intended to hoax Max Harris and the Angry Penguins group. Instead there was world-wide acclaim, amidst local derision. Written by young Sydney poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart, the hoax involved the dead poet Ern Malley and his sister Ethel. The poems are augmented by commentary from Albert Tucker, Max Harris and Colin Wilson, with many drawings by Garry Shead.