Kenneth Slessor

Kenneth Slessor (March 27th 1901 - June 30th 1971, 70 years) was a Poète Australia N born with Orange in the state of News-Wales of the South.

He was journalist of written press mainly for the Sydney Sun , and was war correspondent during the Second world war. In same time, it asquit the celebrity as one of the principal Australian poets who integrated in Australian poetry the modernistic influences.

He is deceased the June 30th 1971 with Sydney of a Myocardial infarction.

The major part of the poetic work of Slessor was probably produced before the second world war, and its poem the most known remainder Five Bells (Five bells) which milked with the wearing of Sydney. Another famous poem is Beach Burial (Burial on the beach) , homage to the Australian troops which fought during the Second world war.

Slessor was the friend of Hugh McCrae and Jack Lindsay.

Poetry

Last worms of Beach Burial :

Dead seamen, gone in search off the same landfall,

Whether ace enemy they fought,

Gold fought with custom, gold neither; the sand unite them together,

Enlisted one the other face.

Marine died, left with research the same unloading,

Or they fought like enemies,

Or fought with us, or neither one nor the other; sand joined together them ,

Engagés on the other front."

Works

• Country Towns (1920)
• Earth Visitors (1926)
• has Bushranger (1930)
• Cuckooz Contrey (1932)
• Five Bells (1939)
• Beach Burial (1944)
• One Hundred Poems (1944)
• Poems ( 1957)