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Kenneth Slessor
(1901 - 1971)

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Kenneth Slessor was born in Orange, New South Wales, in 1901. He published his first poetry in the Bulletin magazine while still at school. He worked on the Sydney Sun newspaper from 1920 to 1925, and for a while on the Melbourne Punch and Melbourne Herald. He returned to Sydney in 1927 to work on S .. .. more >>

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"And tried to hear your voice, but all I heard
Was a boat's whistle, and the scraping squeal
Of seabird's voices far away, and bells,
Five bells. Five bells coldly ringing out.
Five bells."
Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971), Australian poet, journalist. Five Bells (l. 124-128). . . Poetry in Australia, Vols. I-II. Vol. I: From the Ballads to Brennan, T. Inglis Moore, comp.; Vol. II: Modern Australian Verse, Douglas Stewart, comp. (1965) University of California Press.

"These funeral-cakes of sweet and sculptured stone."
Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971), Australian poet, journalist. Five Bells (l. 96). . . Poetry in Australia, Vols. I-II. Vol. I: From the Ballads to Brennan, T. Inglis Moore, comp.; Vol. II: Modern Australian Verse, Douglas Stewart, comp. (1965) University of California Press.

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Kenneth Slessor. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. Kenneth Adolf Slessor (March 27, 1901–June 30, 1971) [1] was an ...
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Slessor, Kenneth Adolf (1901 - 1971) Biographical Entry ...
Kenneth Slessor died suddenly of myocardial infarction on 30 June 1971 at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, North Sydney. In accordance with his will, ...
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160310b.htm

Australian Literature Resources - John Tranter reviews "Kenneth ...
The second volume, edited by Douglas Stewart, was titled Modern Australian Verse, and it began with Kenneth Slessor. T.Inglis Moore edited Volume One, ...
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ALM Australian Literature Resources - Kenneth Slessor Contents page
The life of Kenneth Slessor threads its way through almost three-quarters of this century, from his birth in the same year as the Australian federation ...
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