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St Lucia, Qld., Australia University of Queensland Press 1993. 8vo hardcover 284pp index, b/w illus. very good, small pen mark on fep. / very good d/w. In October 1943, the young and successful Australian literary editor, Max Harris, received a package of poems by a recently deceased poet, Ern Malley, forwarded to him by his sister Ethel. Convinced he had stumbled on the work of a young genius, Harris published Malley's manuscript in his own magazine, 'Angry Penguins'. But the consequences were to haunt the Australian literary world for generations to come. .