Slessor, Kenneth

Slessor, Kenneth

▪ Australian poet
born March 27, 1901, Orange, N.S.W., Australia
died July 30, 1971, Sydney

      Australian poet and journalist best known for his poems “Beach Burial,” a moving tribute to Australian troops who fought in World War II, and "Five Bells," his most important poem, a meditation on art, time, and death.

      Slessor became a reporter for the Sydney Sun at the age of 19, was editor of the journal Smith's Weekly for a time, and then was a World War II correspondent (1940–44). He continued as an editor and literary critic after the war. His earliest poetry, collected in Earth Visitors (1926), is characterized by gaiety and technical experimentation. The influence of the poets T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound is evident in the sophisticated Cuckooz Country (1932). Five Bells: XX Poems (1939) and Poems (1957) demonstrate the poet's mature mastery of technique.

Additional Reading
Geoffrey Dutton, Kenneth Slessor: A Biography (1991).

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