Poetry Books by Kenneth Slessor

Kenneth Slessor Books, Kenneth Slessor poetry book Kenneth Slessor Authors: Kenneth Slessor
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Published Date: 1991
Categories: Poets, Australian
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Kenneth Slessor Books, Kenneth Slessor poetry book Selected Poems Authors: Kenneth Slessor
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Published Date: 1993
Categories: Australian poetry
One of Australia's finest poets, Kenneth Slessor would be outstanding in any company. His brilliance of technique gives an impression of unconscious mastery in poems that are always arresting in conception and illuminating in image. Slessor was born in 1901 in Orange, New South Wales. He was educated in Sydney and became a journalist in his late teens. Most of his life was spent in Sydney, which he grew to love, and the city's harbour, streets and people appear in a number of his poems. He died in 1971.

Kenneth Slessor Books, Kenneth Slessor poetry book Darlinghurst Nights Authors: Kenneth Slessor
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Published Date: 2015-11
Categories: Literary Collections
Darlinghurst Nights and Morning Glories: Being 47 strange sights observed from eleventh storeys, in a land of cream puffs and crime, by a flat-roof professor; and here set forth in sketch and rhyme, first published in 1933.



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