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‘Fuck All Editors’: The Ern Malley Affair and Gwen Harwood’s Bulletin ScandalCassandra Atherton1 Desmond O’Grady was the acting poetry editor of the Bulletin at this time. Douglas Stewart haddeparted and Vincent Buckley had yet to be appointed. O’Grady rang Harwood after the scandal,provoking Harwood to characterise him in her letter to the Hoddinotts as gibbering to her ‘Didyou write them? Why? Why?’ As editor of the Bulletin, the ‘paranoiac Donald Horne’ (asHarwood dubbed him) took responsibility for the sonnets. He in turn dubbed the scandal a ‘sadjest’. See A Steady Storm of Correspondence: Selected Letters of Gwen Harwood 1943-1995,Gregory Kratzmann (ed.), UQP, Australia, 2001; and Jennifer Strauss, Boundary Conditions:The Poetry of Gwen Harwood, UQP, Australia, 1992, p 23.2 John Rowan, Subpersonalities: The People Inside Us, Routledge, London, 1990, p 8.3 Michael Heyward, The Ern Malley Affair, Faber and Faber, London, 1993, p 81.4 Chris Wallace-Crabbe, ‘Imaginary Identities’, unpublished paper, University of Melbourne,1989.5 Gwen Harwood, ‘Gentleness’, Quadrant, vol 21, no 3, 1977, p 15.6 Cassandra Pybus, The Devil and James McAuley, UQP, Australia, 1999, p 254.7 Heyward, op. cit., p 81.8 ibid., p 61.9 Max Harris and Joanna Murray-Smith, Ern Malley, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1987, p 3.10 Heyward, op. cit, p 57.11 ibid., p 137.12 ibid., p 138.13 Harris, op. cit., p 13.14 ibid., p 13.15 ibid.16 Heyward, op. cit., p 153.17 Harris, op. cit., viii.18 ibid., p 8.19 ibid., p 9.20 Quotes from Ern Malley poems are all taken from Harris’ and Murray-Smith’s Ern Malley, op.cit. However the special collections in the Baillieu library at the University of Melbourne hold‘The Darkening Ecliptic’.21 Strauss, op. cit., pp 23-4.22 Tasmanian Truth, 23 August 1961.23 Harwood and Buckely were originally going to collaborate on a hoax for Leonie Kramer, theeditor of Australian Poetry. Buckley initially put the idea to Harold Stewart and Harwood.Stewart declined and Harwood wrote a sonnet using Buckley’s name and gave him a copy.Buckley never sent it to Kramer and after a time Harwood decided to redraft it and send this andanother to the Bulletin. It should be made clear that it was not intended to hoax Buckley as poetryeditor as he already had a copy and had initially collaborated with Harwood. See A Steady Storm,op. cit., Chapter 2.24 Hoddinott, op. cit.
25 Candida Baker, Yacker 3: Australian Writers Talk About Their Work, Pan, Chippendale, 1989, p138.26 ibid.27 Bulletin, 19 August 1961.28 Baker, op. cit., p 138.29 Stephanie Trigg, Gwen Harwood: Australian Writers’ Series, Oxford University Press,Melbourne, 1994.30 Alison Hoddinott, Gwen Harwood, The Real and Imagined World, Angus and Robertson, NorthRyde, 1991, p 88.31 Trigg, op. cit., p 12.32 ibid.33 Bulletin, 5 August 1961, p 3.34 ibid.35 Robert Sellick, Gwen Harwood, CRNLE and Monograph Series no 3, Adelaide, 1997 p 25.36 Baker, op. cit., p 137.37 ibid., p 149.38 Jenny Digby, A Woman’s Voice: Conversations with Australian Poets, UQP, 1996, p 610.39 James Vargiu, Psychosynthesis Workbook: Subpersonalities, Synthesis 1, 1974, p 53.40 ibid., p 55.41 John Rowan and Mick Cooper (eds), The Plural Self: Multiplicity in Everyday Life, Sage,London, 1999, p 2.42 Rowan and Cooper, op. cit., p 3.43 Thomas R Whitaker, Social Research, n 63, n3, 1996, p 701.44 John Beston, ‘An Interview with Gwen Harwood’, Quadrant, vol 19, no 7, 1975, p 88.
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