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y separately published work icon The Portnoyad single work   poetry   satire   "Sing, Muse, the wrath of New South Wales, Victoria,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1970... 1970 The Portnoyad
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Satirical poem on Australian censorship as it emerged in the banning of Philip Roth's novel Portnoy's Complaint in the 1960s.

Notes

  • 'Dedicated to the shade of Lord Byron who knew how to deal with "intellectual eunuchs."'

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