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Kenneth Slessor Selected Poems

Author: Kenneth Slessor

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 146070312X

The definitive collection of work from one of Australia's preeminent twentieth century poets, Kenneth Slessor, drawing from his acclaimed books, Earth Visitors (1926), Cuckooz Contrey (1932) and Five Bells (1939). this selection was first published as One Hundred Poems in 1944 (with the addition of three further poems in 1957), and includes an introduction by Dennis Haskell and an Author's Note. From his historical series, 'Five Visions of Captain Cook', to his memorial to the loss of a friend, the iconic 'Five Bells', and from the tragic landscape of El Alamein, influenced by his stint as a war correspondent and made famous in 'Beach Burial', to the meditation 'Out of time', Slessor's poetry continues to dazzle contemporary audiences. A master of modern verse, Slessor explores the themes of art, death and time, displaying an impressive range: from sorrow to satire, melodrama to poignant intensity. His work still influences and inspires younger generations, and the prestigious Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize is named in his honour. 'studded with these beautiful jewels of language' - Paul Kelly on 'Five Bells' 'More than any other writer, Slessor's work turned Australian literature towards the modern' - From the introduction, by Dennis Haskell

Australian Poetry

Author: Paul Kane

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521438247

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This book offers a comprehensive and original reading of Australian poetry, from the colonial period to the present, through the dual lenses of Romanticism and negativity. Paul Kane argues that the absence of Romanticism functions as a crucial presence in the poetry of all the major Australian poets. This absence or negativity is both thematic and structural, and Kane's scrupulous analyses uncover important relations between Romanticism and negativity. Chapters on nine individual poets explore and substantiate the theoretical claims informed by the work of contemporary critics of Romanticism and by various philosophers of negativity. These chapters can serve as a series of self-contained readings of Australian poets for the use of students, scholars, and informed general readers. Australian Poetry is unique in its sustained argument and theoretical sophistication.

Kenneth Slessor

Author: Geoffrey Dutton

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13:

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Reissue of a biographical study of one of Australia's finest poets, first published in a deluxe paperback edition in 1991. Explores Slessor's career as a journalist, war correspondent and poet and examines his often stormy private life. Written by one of Australia's most noted men of letters, this book has been acclaimed as a 'masterpiece of literary biography' (Clement Semmler).

Darlinghurst Nights

Author: Kenneth Slessor

Publisher:

Published: 2015-11

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781925416060

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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.

Creative Lives

Author: Penelope Hanley

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0642276560

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Henry Lawson - Miles Franklin - Henry Handel Richardson - Kenneth Slessor - Eleanor Dark - Christina Stead - Kylie Tennant - Patrick White - Thomas Keneally - Mem Fox.

Kenneth Slessor

Author: Clement Semmler

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13:

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Selected Poems

Author: Kenneth Slessor

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780207182983

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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.