References To Ern Malley and The Hoax
The Australian historian Humphrey McQueen alluded to the poems in calling his 1979 history of modernism in Australia The Black Swan of Trespass.
Joanna Murray-Smith's play Angry Young Penguins (1987) is based on these events.
Peter Carey's 2003 novel My Life as a Fake draws some of its inspiration from the Ern Malley affair. Elliot Perlman recounts the tale of the Ern Malley hoax in his 2003 novel Seven Types of Ambiguity. In 2005, "The Black Swan of Trespass", a surrealist play about the real life of a self-admittedly fictional Ern Malley by Lally Katz and Chris Kohn, premiered at the Melbourne Malthouse Theatre.
In the early years of the 21st century, the artist Garry Shead produced a series of well-received paintings based on the Ern Malley hoax.
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