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This issue also includes poetry from overseas contributors.
Also included are artwork, critical articles on overseas poets and poetry, sections on sociology, art, music and theatre and translations of works by overseas writers.
Editor's note published in Angry Penguins no.8: In the last issue of Angry Penguins [i.e. no.7] poems were wrongly attritbuted. 'Renaissance' by Jan Brevet was attributed to Nicholas Moore, and 'Ambush' by William van O'Connor was attributed to Jan Brevet. A stanza by Barry Reid was misplaced. We apologize to them for the editorial inaccuracies which occurred in presenting the poems. (p.163)
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Includes a comment on criticisms about the Ern Malley hoax that were published in the Communist newspapers The Tribune and The Guardian by George Farwell and Noel Counihan. Angry Penguins' editors replied to the criticisms, but the replies were not published.
Chisholm contends that some of the Ern Malley collection 'really is poetry', and that McAuley and Stewart 'lapsed into poetry more often than they intended'.
Elliott contends that 'in this one work of malicious deception the authors, McAuley and Stewart, have written more forcefully and more to the purpose than they have ever done before'.
Green suggests that the editors of Angry Penguins, while not lacking in courage, were lacking in responsibility when they published the Ern Malley poems. She concludes that 'No-one is ever safe from making a false judgement, and it is better to demonstrate one's cultivation to art by admitting that one has made a mistake, than to defend bad art in order to save one's dignity.'