Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971) was born in Orange, New South Wales, in 1901. He made his living as a newspaper journalist, and was a war correspondent during the Second World War. At the same time, he became notable as one of Australia's leading poets, and for the asorbtion of modernist infuences into Australian poetry. He died in 1971.

The bulk of Slessor's poetic work was produced prior to the Second World War, and his "Five Bells" remains probably the best known poem relating to Sydney harbour.

Slessor was friends with Hugh McCrae and Jack Lindsay.

Bibliography

• Earth Visitors (1926)
• Cuckooz Contrey (1932)
• Five Bells (1939)
• One Hundred Poems (1944)
• Poems (1957)

External links

• Kenneth Slessor contains a number of his poems