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The Ern Malley edition of Angry Penguins.Featured on the cover is a Sidney Nolan painting inspired by lines from Ern Malley's poem Petit Testament, which are printed on the cover, bottom right: "I said to my love (who is living) / Dear we shall never be that verb / Perched on the sole Arabian Tree / (Here the peacock blinks the eyes of his multipennate tail)".
This he expanded as The Flattered Flying Fish and Other Poems (1962). A selection of his verse appeared in A Puffin Quartet of Poets (1958). [5] For Rieu himself, his poems were a sideline, aimed mainly at children. [8] Rieu wrote the short story "Pudding Law: A Nightmare", included in The Great Book for Girls, published by Oxford University Press.
The Ern Malley edition of Angry Penguins.Featured on the cover is a Sidney Nolan painting inspired by lines from Malley's poem Petit Testament, which are printed on the cover, bottom right: "I said to my love (who is living) / Dear we shall never be that verb / Perched on the sole Arabian Tree / (Here the peacock blinks the eyes of his multipennate tail)".
The Mersey Sound is number 10 in a series of slim paperbacks originally published in the 1960s by Penguin in a series called Penguin Modern Poets. Each book assembled work by three compatible poets. Number 6, for example, contained poems by George MacBeth, Edward Lucie-Smith and Jack Clemo. The other books in the series were not given a ...
Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1918–1960) [ edit ] The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse is a poetry anthology first published in 1950, and edited by Kenneth Allott , generally restricted to British poets ( T. S. Eliot , Sylvia Plath and some Irish poets were included).
The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry is a poetry anthology edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion, and published in 1982 by Penguin Books. Shortly after its publication, Morrison acknowledged the criticisms made towards the anthology, including that it was "merely 'fashionable'" and the "committee English" of its introduction. [ 1 ]
In 1996, Penguin Books published as a paperback A Complete Annotated Listing of Penguin Classics and Twentieth-Century Classics (ISBN 0-14-771090-1). This article covers editions in the series: black label (1970s), colour-coded spines (1980s), the most recent editions (2000s), and Little Clothbound Classics Series (2020s).
Edited by poets Philip Mead and John Tranter it was published by Penguin Australia in 1991. Aside from the usual criticisms any such anthology will produce, it raised some eyebrows at the time for its inclusion of all the Ern Malley hoax poems. It might be claimed there is no accepted canon of contemporary Australian poetry and this book is the ...