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Issue Details: First known date: 1940... no. [1] 1940 of Angry Penguins est. 1940-1943 Angry Penguins
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Notes

  • Title page has as an epigraph : 'as drunks, the angry penguins of the night ...'. These lines from Harris's poem "Mithridatum of Despair' are the source of the journal's title.
  • This issue also includes an essay by J. B. Swan titled 'Tonality and Modern Music'. Essay not indexed separately.
  • Contents indexed selectively

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1940 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Two Poets, C. R. Jury , single work criticism (p. 9-17)
At the Windowi"The last dismantled star flung into space,", Paul Pfeiffer , single work poetry (p. 10)
The Posts Around the Cemetery ...i"The posts around the cemetery are white", Max Jenkins , single work poetry
Contrasts the drunken reverie of two men outside the cemetery with a pious man walking within the fence posts.
 (p. 18)
Untitledi"slowly he limps the stuck white line", Max Jenkins , single work poetry (p. 19)
Untitledi"the tempered clacking of a macabre catechism", Max Jenkins , single work poetry (p. 19)
Untitledi"before I die in this dirty cell", Max Jenkins , single work poetry (p. 20)
Cross-Sectioni"The black duck swish across the plains and peaks", Rex Ingamells , single work poetry (p. 21)
The Pelvic Rose, Max Harris , single work column
Harris gives a brief account of his use of symbolism and 'biological imagery' in the poem 'The Pelvic Rose'. He describes the poem as 'contemporary in spirit and technique', but 'primitive in its nature'.
 (p. 22)
The Pelvic Rosei"the pelvic rose unfolding the flesh", Max Harris , single work poetry (p. 23-27)
Note: At foot of poem: Nov. 3, 1940
Quatraini"breaking on rocky shores of dead time", Max Harris , single work poetry (p. 28)
Benti"beyond now", Max Harris , single work poetry (p. 28)
Concessionsi"granting the water-rats", Max Harris , single work poetry (p. 29)
Note: At foot of poem: Jan. 13, 1941
Preparationi"with the children married the old folk prepare to die;", Max Harris , single work poetry (p. 30)
Imagei"Standing in the water, feeling the ceaseless caressing", Cecil Smith , single work poetry (p. 31)
"Forget not tern cry over pallored beach" Songs in Wartime : Ii"Forget nor [sic] tern cry over pallored beach", Paul Pfeiffer , single work poetry (p. 32)
Songs in Wartime : IIi"My love has bargained with a tear", Paul Pfeiffer , single work poetry (p. 32)
Songs in Wartime : IIIi"Sweet your wonder wandering words,", Paul Pfeiffer , single work poetry (p. 32)
"This tenor of the heart," Sonneti"This tenour of the heart,", Paul Pfeiffer , single work poetry (p. 33)
On First Seeing a Portraiti"That day I saw in you", Paul Pfeiffer , single work poetry (p. 34)
Motif from Marvelli"Darling, in a handbreadth hurl", Paul Pfeiffer , single work poetry (p. 35)
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The Second Angry Penguins Max Harris , 1941 single work column
— Appears in: Angry Penguins , August no. 2 1941; (p. 7-8) Under the sub-heading 'The Matter', Harris explains the rationale behind the works included in Angry Penguins no.2. Under the sub-heading 'The Circumstance', he comments on the literary content of magazines sponsored by Australia's universities and very briefly notes the reviews to Angry Penguins no.1.
The Second Angry Penguins Max Harris , 1941 single work column
— Appears in: Angry Penguins , August no. 2 1941; (p. 7-8) Under the sub-heading 'The Matter', Harris explains the rationale behind the works included in Angry Penguins no.2. Under the sub-heading 'The Circumstance', he comments on the literary content of magazines sponsored by Australia's universities and very briefly notes the reviews to Angry Penguins no.1.
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