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.

Poetry

The final verse of "Beach Burial":

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"Dead seamen, gone in search of the same landfall,

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Whether as enemies they fought,

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Or fought with us, or neither; the sand joins them together,

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Enlisted on the other front."

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