A fictional poet originally created by Adrian Lawlor in 1940. The invention of the character of Mort Brandish was shared with
Alister Kershaw and the two writers fabricated a life and death for Brandish in conversations and in print. Lawlor contributed Brandish's poems to the little magazine
Comment in the 1940s. A short biographical piece on Brandish and the first poem were published in
Comment No. 7, November 1941.
According to Kershaw the psuedonym was further complicated by Mort choosing to contribute two of his poems to
Comment under the name
Rosa Lemmone.
(Tom Thompson,
A Comment on Mort and Malley, Southerly vol. 63 no. 2, 2003; introductory letter by Alister Kershaw to
Mort Brandish : Collected Poems (The Angrier Penguins Press, [1994])
