Angry Penguins ('as drunks, the angry penguins of the night ...')
Adelaide, Adelaide University Arts Association, [1940].
Octavo, 54, [1] pages.
Overlapping wrappers unevenly sunned, and a little soiled, with some light red ink stains to the rear cover; a few short edge tears expertly sealed; mild signs of use; a good copy.
The first issue of the journal, taking off where 'Phoenix' crashed and burned. The introductory note says it all: 'Last year "Phoenix" went, and thus was happily consummated a failure to understand which had started with the first number. Had the members of the Union Committee struck with conviction or even cynicism they might have been pardoned, but without scruples they promoted their apathy to the rank of fervour, and to this there was no immediate answer. Again the calm sincerity of the University's indifference readily absorbed the shock. The production of this magazine will appear then an act of defiance, and indeed it is, but defiance is a dish to be eaten cold; whether good or bad the magazine itself is infinitely more important than the disturbances which lie behind it'.
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