Who is Rex Ingamells

Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells (19 January 1913 – 30 December 1955) was an Australian poet, generally credited with being the leading light of the Jindyworobak Movement.Rex Ingamells was born in Orroroo, South Australia to a Methodist minister, and attended Port Lincoln High School, where he became interested in poetry. He later attended Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide. After a trip at the turn of the thirties, Ingamells became fascinated with Indigenous Australian culture, and became inspired to found the Jindyworobaks a few years later.

In 1935, his first book Gum Tops was published. He died near Dimboola, Victoria in a car-crash in 1955.

Early life

Ingamells was born on 19 January 1913 in Orroroo, South Australia. He was the old...
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Rex Ingamells Poems

• The Camp Fires Of The Past
  A thousand, thousand camp fires every night,
  in ages gone, would twinkle to the dark
  from crest and valley in the rolling bush,
  from mulga scrub and mallee scrub, from dunes ...
• Captain William Bligh
  Look for an iron soul to bear the piled
  anathema of time, to take, without
  abjectness, scorn of every human rout,
  colossal though by all the world defiled! ...
• Ship From The Thames
  Stay, ship from Thames with fettered sails
  in Sydney Cove, this ebb of tide;
  your gear untangled from the gales,
  imprisoned at your anchor ride. ...
• News Of The Sun
  The noon is on the cattle-track;
  the air is void of sound,
  except where crows, poised burning-black,
  cry to the dusty ground....
• Macquarie Harbour
  Macquarie Harbour jailers lock
  the sullen gates no more.....
  but lash-strokes sound in every shock
  of ocean on the dismal rocks ...

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Comments about Rex Ingamells

• Nathanfrancis__: a thousand, thousand camp fires every night, in ages gone, would twinkle to the dark from crest and valley in the rolling bush... poems:
• Nathanfrancis__: a thousand, thousand camp fires every night, in ages gone, would twinkle to the dark from crest and valley in the rolling bush... poems:
• Book_addict: happy birthday to australian poet rex ingamells (january 19, 1913), author of "gum tops" (1935).
• Northtrenton: happy birthday to choor singh (d. 2009), leonid kantorovich (d. 1986), rex ingamells (d. 1955), rudolf wanderone (d. 1996), lester flatt (d. 1979) and john h. johnson (d. 2005).
• Book_addict: happy birthday to australian poet rex ingamells (january 19, 1913), author of "gum tops" (1935).

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