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ontheNthday: On the 2,156,293rd day, God created Kenneth Slessor.
hunter_books: Everybody digs Pam Brown!
Winner: Judith Wright Calanthe Award, QLAs.
Shortlisted: Kenneth Slessor Prize, NSW PLAs.
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newcastleboyy: Just looked at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2023. Some familiar names. Kim Cheng Boey is listed under the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. Dr. Boey provided excellent feedback when I was one of his students.
Blvck_skinhead: God of Mary slessor
Dehler45: Of seabirds’ voices far away . and bells , Five bells , Five bells coldly ringing out . Five bells . Kenneth Slessor. I like quiet space .
vkookIiet: wild grapes - kenneth slessor
war_poets: 3 November 1941 Kenneth Slessor watches two captured German propaganda films in Cairo. ‘The films terrible and terrifying – designedly so, of course, since they are propaganda to cow and scare the smaller neutrals'
vkookIiet: acidic and gypsy sweet, i thought of him, kenneth slessor, the dead guy
unAustraliana: Kenneth Slessor, then aged 18, and having published only two poems, prints a contract with the goddess Thalia (muse presiding over comedy and idyllic poetry) in the Bulletin in 1919
MModernity: Available now on Print Plus, Peter Kirkpatrick's article "Corrosive Littoral: On the Beach with Kenneth Slessor" raises the curtain on our new cycle
SophieLoyWilson: Reminds me of my favorite poem about Sydney 'William St' written by street poet Kenneth Slessor in 1939:
'The red globe of light, the liquor green,
the pulsing arrows and the running fire
spilt on the stones, go deeper than a stream;
You find this ugly, I find it lovely.'
dolphinsands: We rightly go on about the WW1 poets, but there are some remarkably good WW2 poets - Keith Douglas, Sidney Keyes, Kenneth Slessor. And then from the US Edwin Rolfe, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers.
Graeme_Orr: (apologies to Kenneth Slessor)
litcharts: New guide! Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor
NathanFrancis__: Poems:
a_senseofplace: With poetry by Kenneth Slessor.
Michael Fitzjames, whose work is collected in a number of Australia's leading institutions, is best known as an illustrator for newspapers, but his paintings are also highly valued.
a_senseofplace: With poetry by Kenneth Slessor.
Michael Fitzjames, whose work is collected in a number of Australia's leading institutions, is best known as an illustrator for newspapers, but his paintings are also highly valued.
Spill_Words: Gulliver
a poem by Kenneth Slessor
I'LL kick your walls to bits, I'll die scratching a tunnel,
If you'll give me a wall, if you'll give me a simple stone,
If you'll do me the honour of a dungeon—
Anything but this
litcharts: New guide! William Street by Kenneth Slessor
GASt_GAfAS: »The prolific journalistic work of Kenneth Slessor provides a valuable case study in the history of print culture in mid-20th century Australia«, P. Mead: Kenneth Slessor, Film Writing, and Popular Culture
agvocate_au: Kenneth Slessor, 1944.
'Sprayed with the sarcasm of flies'
'Schooner bees'
'Dogs that lick the sunshine up'
This sings in my memory of the towns dotted up the east coast of NZ that still had a store, pub, 'Sheepfarmers' & hitching rails when I was a kid.
Waipiro Bay, Te Puia.
war_poets: 13 April 1941 Kenneth Slessor writes from Greece ‘stories of other heavy Australian losses, all of which I won’t accept until a better source gives it. Parer said that it was reported that British complained that Australians had attacked against orders'
RicoCraig: It was an absolute honour to be on the judging panel for the Kenneth Slessor Prize this year. As you can see for the shortlist it was a spectacular year for poetry! Congrats to all on the list AND the highly commended collections AND the wonderful books that almost made the list.
cactusian: Kenneth Slessor
(b.27.3.1901)
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to Australian poet Kenneth Slessor (March 27, 1901), author of "Beach Burial" (1944) et al.
AustLit: Born this day in 1901, Kenneth Slessor, poet and (did you know?) incredibly influential film critic. Pictured here about to tuck into an enormous pile of presents.
hWalmsleyEvans: Kenneth Slessor was Australia's first major film critic, says Tom O'Regan for Inside Story
CallMeSipo: 14. Kenneth Slessor’s Selected Poems - re-read this for something I’m writing. Interesting how different these poems are to me now than when I first encountered them ten or so years ago
shaun_bes: "Where have you gone? The tide is over you,
The turn of midnight water's over you,
As Time is over you, and mystery,
And memory, the flood that does not flow."
— 'Five Bells' (1939) Kenneth Slessor
peterdamianent1: Nuremberg - Kenneth Slessor So quiet it was in that high, sun-steeped room, So warm and still, that sometimes with the light Through the great windows, bright with bottle-panes, There’d float a chime from clock-jacks out of sight, Clapping...
shaun_bes: "Where have you gone? The tide is over you,
The turn of midnight water's over you,
As Time is over you, and mystery,
And memory, the flood that does not flow."
'Five Bells', Kenneth Slessor.
damonwake: More on that poem, written by the Australian war correspondent Kenneth Slessor
GeorgeManka: South Country by Kenneth Slessor | Poetry Foundationg
war_poets: 3 November 1941 Kenneth Slessor watches two captured German propaganda films in Cairo. ‘The films terrible and terrifying – designedly so, of course, since they are propaganda to cow and scare the smaller neutrals'
alifbelkadi: Un poète australien a consacré un poème au roi de Koukou....qu'il appelle CUCKOOZ...
The King of Cuckooz
"The Atlas by Kenneth Slessor
I. The King of Cuckooz
THE King of Cuckooz Contrey
Hangs peaked above Argier
With Janzaries and Marabutts (...)"
Jaavouvix: The Atlas poem - Kenneth Slessor poems | Best Poems. Royaume de Koukou
litcharts: New guide! Sleep by Kenneth Slessor
Spill_Words: Gulliver
a poem by Kenneth Slessor
I'LL kick your walls to bits, I'll die scratching a tunnel,
If you'll give me a wall, if you'll give me a simple stone,
If you'll do me the honour of a dungeon—
Anything but this
DrStephR: Live sessions on Keats & Bright Star, Richard III & Looking for Richard, T.S. Eliot, Emma, The Truman Show, The Tempest & Hag-Seed, The Crucible, Kenneth Slessor and a special session on creative writing with Felicity Castagna
simonislawson: I believe they may have been making fun of me, but I loved it none the less. Look out Kenneth Slessor!
ShieldsAndrew: 18 July 2021 (posted 19 July): Kenneth Slessor, “In A/C with Ghosts”
SpookyLib: Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards
AusAmbEE: Congrats to Mununjali Yugambeh author Ellen Van Neerven for pulling off a hat-trick at the NSW Premier’s Literary Award. Van Neerven’s poetry collection, Throat, won Book of the Year, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the Multicultural NSW Award!
AusAmbSE: Congrats to Mununjali Yugambeh author Ellen Van Neerven for pulling off a hat-trick at the NSW Premier’s Literary Award. Van Neerven’s poetry collection, Throat, won Book of the Year, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the Multicultural NSW Award!
YungEnChee1: Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Seekinglearning: Congratulations Ellen! I hope this means you won't have to work 8 jobs at once to have an income - incredible❤️Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards
annagregarious: AUSTRALIA: Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Profagriffiths: Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards
_jokhan: Throat is the first poetry I've ever read since school and it completely blew me away!
Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards
hepzibah59: Some new books to add to your reading list.
Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards
DavidGr07837209: Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards
abcadelaide: Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards
SteveYoungs: Congratulations to this young author.
Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards
LenBaglow: Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards
karigislason: Extraordinary achievement for QUT alumna Ellen van Neerven, winning Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards
skinnergj: Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards - ABC News
penneywrites: Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards - ABC News
ABCIndigenous: "beauty, honesty and power": Mununjali Yugambeh poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
Surono34098683: Sometimes she is like sherry, like the sun through a vessel of glass, like light through an oriel window in a room of yellow wood;
Sometimes she is the colour of lions, of sand in the fire of noon,
Sometimes as bruised with shadows as the afternoon- Kenneth Slessor ph.Fiama Souza
war_poets: 13 April 1941 Kenneth Slessor writes from Greece ‘stories of other heavy Australian losses, all of which I won’t accept until a better source gives it. Parer said that it was reported that British complained that Australians had attacked against orders'
NORTHTRENTON: Happy Birthday to Carl Barks (d. 2000), Erich Ollenhauer (d. 1963), Eisaku Sato (d. 1975), Kenneth Slessor (d. 1971), Sidney Buchman (d. 1975), Charles Lang (d. 1998), Emile Benveniste (d. 1976), Xavier Villaurrutia (d. 1950) and Leroy Carr (d. 1935).
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to Australian poet Kenneth Slessor (March 27, 1901), author of "Beach Burial" (1944) et al.
indialsi: answer B
Explanation: Prominent Australian poets of the 20th century include Dame Mary Gilmore, A. D. Hope, Judith Wright, Gwen Harwood, Kenneth Slessor, Les Murray, Bruce Dawe and more recently Robert Gray, John Forbes, John Tranter, John Kinsella and Judith Beveridge.
cath_slessor: Kenneth Anger, born in 1927, the same year as my mother, is 94 today. She's long gone, Ken keeps trucking on.
lenoretaylor: Polarities by Kenneth Slessor
MatthewPullar: Freeway Towns (After Kenneth Slessor)
OmarjSakr: And Peter Boyle won the Kenneth Slessor Prize. So many exceptional books are being made right now. Long ways to go yet, but step by step, inshallah we keep heading in the right direction.
Rojotortoise: Sometimes
..she is beauty
..fury
..nothing drained of meaning
null as water
..when she makes me pea-soup and
plays me Schumann I love her one way
..I love her another
..I like her swimming in a mirror on the wall
..I don’t like her at all
Kenneth Slessor
gkachel: English teachers. Advice on a related text for my son doing advanced course and studying Kenneth Slessor in the Common Module. Thoughts welcome...
war_poets: 3 November 1941 Kenneth Slessor watches two captured German propaganda films in Cairo. ‘The films terrible and terrifying – designedly so, of course, since they are propaganda to cow and scare the smaller neutrals'
samxbuttigieg: I hate Kenneth Slessor
GeorgeManka: “We live by these, your masks and images,
We breathe in this, your quick and borrowed body;
But you take passage on the ruffian seas,
And you are vanished in the dark already.”
Kenneth Slessor
cath_slessor: ‘August 12th.
The last time Joe touched my cock.
Grouse shooting starts’.
Kenneth Halliwell
‘Prick Up Your Ears’, 1987.
MegBrayshaw: Enjoyed R.D. Fitzgerald calling Kenneth Slessor 'that stuck-up-looking, impeccably dressed, frozen-faced dandy of a coot' in a 1971 issue of ALS. Shakespearean 'strine.
eileenchongpoet: Two views of The Yellow House—site of the artists’ colony of people like Kenneth Slessor & Martin Sharp.
melbspokenword: Zenobia Frost's work — about feminism, place attachment and pop culture — has won the Val Vallis Prize and a QLD Writers Fellowship. Her collection, After the Demolition (Cordite Books) was recently shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.
chriswaterguy: "So Time, the wave, enfolds me in its bed,
Or Time, the bony knife, it runs me through." – behind the chemistry building. Later identified as lines from Kenneth Slessor.
(Wrote about that one
OgunfileF: 36/ too.
What you believe is your faith!
We must find out about George Whitfield, Charles and John Wesley, Charles Finney.
We must read about Oswald J. Smith. D. L. Moody, F.F Bosworth, Howard Carter, Mary Slessor, Kenneth Hagin, E.W Kenyon, Ayo Babalola and many more.
We
bay_art: 19+ Best Kenneth Slessor Poems Everyone Should Read
jenny_sinclair: sampling poems at random for my students, opened a Kenneth Slessor book and found: "Torches and running fire; the flagstones drip/ Like a black mirror, wet from killing. Smoke goes up..."
zenfrost: Congratulations to Kenneth Slessor winner Peter Boyle — and a cracking great shortlist to be on.
war_poets: 13 April 1941 Kenneth Slessor writes‘ heavy Australian losses, all of which I won’t accept until a better source gives it...reported British complained Australians had attacked against orders, also that Australians refused to take prisoners, and Germans accordingly did the same
Paridell: Sydney Harbour, Maundy Thursday, 11.30 p.m., with light trails from the ferries and a warning light on a crane joining the one on the Harbour Bridge. The blackness recalls Kenneth Slessor's line, "Night and water / Pour to one rip of darkness" (in "Five Bells", 1939).
NORTHTRENTON: Happy Birthday to Carl Barks (d. 2000), Erich Ollenhauer (d. 1963), Eisaku Sato (d. 1975), Kenneth Slessor (d. 1971), Sidney Buchman (d. 1975), Charles Lang (d. 1998), Emile Benveniste (d. 1976), Xavier Villaurrutia (d. 1950) and Leroy Carr (d. 1935).
ckstatham77: Out Of Time by Kenneth Slessor - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry
blueeyes887: Sharp piece from Murpharoo -
"As the great Australian poet Kenneth Slessor put it in Out of Time, time is flowing like one hundred yachts flying behind daylight, foxed with air. Hour by hour, there is more propulsion."
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to Australian poet Kenneth Slessor (March 27, 1901), author of "Beach Burial" (1944) et al.
jachaseyoung: Maybe the best description of lighting I've ever read:
"blank and bone-white, like a maniac's thought / The naphtha-flash of lightning slit the sky / Knifing the dark with deathly photographs."
- "Five Bells," Kenneth Slessor
JimBarrett: "Time that is moved by little fidget wheels
Is not my Time, the flood that does not flow.
Between the double and the single bell
Of a ship’s hour. Between a round of bells"
- From "Five Bells" by Kenneth Slessor (1939)
litcharts: New guide! Beach Burial by Kenneth Slessor
yindisystems: Kenneth Slessor’s “Five Bells” 1939
Dehler45: Five Bells . Nice meditative poem by Kenneth Slessor.
migrantlaw: Reading Kenneth Slessor’s Last Trams.
Can anyone explain
“And sickness of carbon
Dying in distances”
(No replies citing Star Wars please)
war_poets: 3 November 1941 Kenneth Slessor watches two captured German propaganda films in Cairo. ‘The films terrible and terrifying – designedly so, of course, since they are propaganda to cow and scare the smaller neutrals'
DuncanMcNab: Magnificent writing by Kenneth Slessor on Kings Cross (and a bit of food too..)
poetry_says: Ep 109. The frustration in Kenneth Slessor's Five Bells:
mayoshoujo: English paper: Write about Human Experiences found in Kenneth Slessor’s poetry
Me: So, Kenneth Slessor was an Aries,
shayne_chester: 8. community. Most of the historic flavour expressed in the KX community have gone now, those that remain isolate or are shunned because they find no status in the new KX. Kenneth Slessor wrote about the unconformity of KX "...crowded with eccentric, extroverted or fantastic ..9
fivewalls: Or possibly this, from Kenneth Slessor:
Jen_Bennett: Just learnt Kenneth Slessor once described Melbourne as "this mastodon of bleeding stone", so sure, keep referring to Sydney as "the Bad City".
