Kenneth Slessor

Kenneth Slessor (March 27 1901- July 30 1971) was born in Orange, New South Wales, in 1901. He made his living as a newspaper journalist mostly for the Sydney Sun, and was a war correspondent during the Second World War. At the same time, he became notable as one of Australia's leading poets, and for the asorbtion of modernist infuences into Australian poetry. He died in 1971.

External links

• poemhunter.com contains a number of his poems
• John Tranter has written a profile of Slessor