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Issue Details: First known date: 1942... no. 4 1942 of Angry Penguins est. 1940-1943 Angry Penguins
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Notes

  • Contents indexed selectively.
  • This issue also includes reproductions of the following paintings: Maintenance and Identity by James Gleeson, an untitled work by Albert Tucker, The Dispossessed by V. G. O'Connor, The New Order by Noel Counihan, Composition by Douglas Roberts, Bathers by Sidney Nolan and Finality Concept by Ivor P. Francis. Also included are some commentaries on art by John Reed, J. D. Blake, Albert Tucker and Bruce Williams.
    Critical articles about Rousseau le Douanier, Baudelaire and Rimbaud are included along with a poem by Dylan Thomas. These items, and the commentaries noted above, are not indexed separately.

  • General Editor Max Harris provides an editorial comment (p.1) noting that 'both in function and set-up [Angry Penguins] has ceased to be a literary anthology and is becoming a literary and art journal proper'.
    John Reed, Collaborating Editor, Art Section, comments (p.1) on the incorporation of Australian painting and sculpture in Angry Penguins.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1942 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Angry Penguins -- 4: Transition Number, Max Harris , single work column (p. 1)
Spittie's Haystack, Frank Kellaway , single work short story (p. 2-3)
The Wordi"I and the local world; the mind,", Max Harris , single work (p. 4-8)
The Iron Entering the Souli"Here under this slate sky pitted by the wind", Lola Van Gooch , single work poetry (p. 13)
Hobo Under the Poincianai"The tree weeps greenery about the broad umbrella", Marceine Ia Dickfos , single work poetry (p. 13)
Untitledi"I made mind final arbiter,", Frank Kellaway , single work poetry (p. 14)
The Heroi"The hero slid the landscape round his wing", Geoffrey Dutton , single work poetry (p. 20)
Dead Poplari"Swan's neck supple it is still;", Geoffrey Dutton , single work poetry (p. 21)
Tasmaniai"In the summer months the old man had caught them", Geoffrey Dutton , single work poetry (p. 21)
Untitledi"Black maps of death imprinted on our world", Elizabeth Galloway , single work (p. 22)
Ascensioni"Through this path,", Lola Van Gooch , single work poetry (p. 22)
The Sense and The Virtue, Alister Kershaw , single work short story (p. 23-24, 27)
Buckley's?, single work review (p. 27)
Donald Kerr, single work obituary (p. 30)
'Lady, Amen'i"If we could halt this passing hour", D. B. Kerr , single work poetry (p. 31)
Karl Shapiro, Max Harris , single work column (p. 32)
There are Three Thingsi"There are three things which the lover delights in,", Karl Shapiro , single work poetry (p. 33)
The Oceani"For the last time the old and angular sea rolled", Max Harris , single work poetry (p. 34)
Bati"Before the light", Mary Williams , single work poetry (p. 40)
Evensongi"Now fading half-light gently breaks", Geoffrey Dutton , single work poetry (p. 41)

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Works about this Work

Dead Letter 1943 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Angry Penguins , [September] no. 5 1943; (p. 41)
Comments on the perceived obscurity of the writing in Angry Penguins no.4.
Dead Letter 1943 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Angry Penguins , [September] no. 5 1943; (p. 41)
Comments on the perceived obscurity of the writing in Angry Penguins no.4.
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