Erling told me about Ern Malley the other day on our way back from a Music Now concert at CSUS. Love these literary hoxes: all the way from Ireland and MacPherson up to Araki Yasusada. The thing is, if you read McAuley and Stewart's letter to the editor which exposed the hoax, it sounds as though they actually just composed some "modernist" poems and had them published under a pseudonym. Juxtaposition of chaotic images and an aleatory style of theme choice. Oh, well. The best bit I came across was David Lewis' tongue-in-check article in the rather conservative Quadrant (of which McAuley was the first editor). The tidbits were so tempting, I went off to the NRLF and checked out some of the two bad boys' feeble poems. Hard to distinguish their "authentic" output from their "hoax". Contra McAuley, I see the pinacles of pre-modernist poetry as folks like Algernon Swinburne or Gerard Manley Hokpins.