Angy Penguins. 1945.

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(Melbourne: The National Press) 1945. 4to. Orig. illust. wrapper (top corner of front cover neatly removed; edges chipped; shelf-soiled). (184pp.). With text-illusts. Features poetry articles musical scores and short stories. Occasional foxing. NOTE: Founded in 1940 by four poets Angry Penguins became synonymous with the modernist literary and artistic movement. In 1944 poetry by a writer called Ern Malley was published in the magazine however this was a hoax which led to a charge against Max Harris for publishing obscenities.