Kenneth Slessor

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Kenneth Adolphe Slessor (27 March 1901 – 30 June 1971) was an Australian poet, journalist, and official war correspondent in World War II.

He was one of Australia's best writers, notable for the incorporation of modernist influences into Australian poetry.

After him, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry has been named.

Early life

Kenneth Adolphe Schloesser was born in Orange, New South Wales, and he died. As a youth, he lived in England with his parents and in Australia, visiting the mines of rural New South Wales with his father, a Jewish mining engineer whose father and grandfather were both outstanding musicians in Germany.

In 1903, his family immigrated to Sydney. Slessor went to Mowbray House School (1910–1914) and the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (1915–1918), where he began to write poetry. In 1917, James' first published poem, "Goin'," about a wounded digger in Europe, commemorating Sydney and its icons, appeared in The Bulletin. Slessor received first-class honours in English and joined the Sydney Sun as a journalist. Seven of his poems were published in 1919. He married for the first time in 1922.

Personal life

Norman Lindsay, Hugh McCrae, and Jack Lindsay were among his associates of Slessor's family.

Slessor married Nola Beatrice Myer Glasson (born 1894) in Ashfield, Sydney, on August 18, 1922, at the age of 21. Nola was the daughter of Australian soprano and music composer Annie May Colette Summerbelle (1867-1949) and Herbert Edward Glasson (1867–1893), who was later found guilty of murder. No.la died of cancer on October 22, 1945.

He married Pauline Wallace in 1951, and a year later, he celebrated the birth of his only child, Paul Slessor, before the marriage was ended in 1961.

He died alone and suddenly from a heart attack at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in North Sydney on June 30, 1971.

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Career

Slessor worked as a newspaper reporter, mainly for The Sun, and he served as a war correspondent during World War II (1939-1945). He reported not only from Australia, but also from Greece, Syria, Libya, Egypt, and New Guinea.

For the famous publication Smith's Weekly, Slessor also wrote about rugby league football.

The majority of Slessor's poetic works were created before World War II was concluded. "Five Bells" — relating to Sydney Harbour, time, place, memory, and the death of the artist, friend, and colleague of Slessor at Smith's Weekly, Joe Lynch — is his best known poem, followed by "Beach Burial," a salute to Australian troops who served in World War II.

He described Slessor as:

Ronald McCuaig was the first to publish an in-depth study of Kenneth Slessor in The Bulletin in August 1939 and republished in "Tales from bed" (1944). The report was positive, with Slessor ranked ahead of C.J. Brennan and W.B. Yeats is a product of the United Kingdom. It was written a year before "Five Bells" marked Slessor's conversion to modernism, which was inspired by Rundle and others, according to Rundle and others. The study therefore focuses on Slessor's poetry's pre-modernist portions.

Kenneth Slessor's poem "Five Visions of Captain Cook" is equally as important as "Five Bells" in Australian poetry of the twentieth century, according to poet Douglas Stewart, and was the'most dramatic break-through' in Australian poetry of the twentieth century.

He published One Hundred Poems in 1944, but only three short poems were published at that time. Slessor, rather than writing poetry after 1944 and the remainder of his life, chose journalism and funding literary causes in order to encourage Australian poetry.

Slessor was a member of The Journalist Club Sydney and served as its Vice President 1940-1957, then as President 1957-1965. William Pidgeon, a fellow Journalist Club member, created a portrait of Slessor that dates back to 1976, painting the portraits of practically every club president up to 1976.

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