Kenneth Slessor
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Kenneth Adolf Slessor (March 27, 1901–July 30, 1971) was an Australian poet and journalist.
Slessor was born in Orange, New South Wales. He made his living as a newspaper journalist, mostly for the Sydney Sun, and was a war correspondent during World War II. At the same time, he became notable as one of Australia's leading poets, and for the absorption of modernist infuences into Australian poetry. He counted Hugh McCrae and Jack Lindsay among his friends.
The bulk of Slessor's poetic work was produced before the Second World War, and his "Five Bells" remains probably the best known poem, relating to Sydney harbour. Another of his best known poems, "Beach Burial", is a tribute to Australian troops who fought in World War II.
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- Country Towns (1920)
- Earth Visitors (1926)
- A Bushranger (1930)
- Cuckooz Contrey (1932)
- Five Bells (1939)
- Beach Burial (1944)
- One Hundred Poems (1944)
- Poems (1957)
