"As We Travel" - by Luke Wagner inspired by the poetry of James McAuley Not too far away at the Colville Gallery at the far end of Salamanca, Tasmanian artist Luke Wagner has fulfilled a long held ambition to paint a series based on the poems of James McAuley (1917 -1976) a well-known Australian academic, poet, journalist and literary critic perhaps most famous for the “ Ern Malley Hoax ” in which he and a collaborator, despising modernist poetry, successfully submitted sixteen nonsense poems to a literary magazine.
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