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Kenneth Slessor was born on 27 March, 1901 in Orange, New South Wales, Australia, is an Australian poet and journalist. Discover Kenneth Slessor's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Occupation Poet, journalist
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 27 March, 1901
Birthday 27 March
Birthplace Orange, New South Wales, Australia
Date of death 30 June, 1971
Died Place North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1867

Noëla was the daughter of Australian soprano and music composer Annie May Colette Summerbelle (1867–1949) and Herbert Edward Glasson (1867–1893).

1893

At the age of 21, Slessor married 28-year-old Noëla Beatrice Myer Ewart Glasson (born 25 December 1893) in Ashfield, Sydney, on 18 August 1922.

She never knew her father who was executed at the Bathurst Gaol on 29 November 1893, a month before her birth, after he was found guilty of a double—almost quadruple—murder of 24 September 1893.

1901

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 leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry.

The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is named after him.

Slessor was born Kenneth Adolphe Schloesser in Orange, New South Wales.

As a boy, he lived in England for a time with his parents and in Australia visited the mines of rural New South Wales with his father, a Jewish mining engineer whose father and grandfather had been distinguished musicians in Germany.

1903

His family moved to Sydney in 1903.

1910

Slessor attended Mowbray House School (1910–1914) and the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (1915–1918), where he began to write poetry.

1917

His first published poem, "Goin'", about a wounded digger in Europe, remembering Sydney and its icons, appeared in The Bulletin in 1917.

1918

Slessor passed the 1918 NSW Leaving Certificate with first-class honours in English and joined the Sydney Sun as a journalist.

1919

In 1919, seven of his poems were published.

1922

He married for the first time in 1922.

1939

Slessor made his living as a newspaper journalist, mostly for The Sun, and was a war correspondent during World War II (1939–1945).

In that capacity, he reported not only from Australia but from Greece, Syria, Libya, Egypt, and New Guinea.

Slessor also wrote on rugby league football for the popular publication Smith's Weekly.

The bulk of Slessor's poetic work was produced before the end of World War II.

His poem "Five Bells"—relating to Sydney Harbour, time, the past, memory, and the death of the artist, friend and colleague of Slessor at Smith's Weekly, Joe Lynch—remains probably his best known poem, followed by "Beach Burial", a tribute to Australian troops who fought in World War II.

Ronald McCuaig was the first to produce an in-depth review of Kenneth Slessor (in The Bulletin in August 1939 and republished in "Tales out of bed" (1944)).

The review was favourable, ranking Slessor above C.J. Brennan and W.B. Yeats.

It was written a year before "Five Bells", which marked Slessor's move to modernism, a move inspired, according to Rundle and others, by McCuaig.

The review therefore covers the pre-modernist parts of Slessor's poetry.

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

1940

Slessor was a member of The Journalists' Club Sydney and served as its Vice-President 1940–1957, then as its President 1957–1965.

1944

In 1944 he published his definitive volume of poetry, One Hundred Poems, and from that point on Slessor published only three short poems.

Instead of writing poetry, after 1944, and for the rest of his life, Slessor chose to concentrate on journalism and supporting literary projects whose aim was to help develop Australian poetry.

1945

Noëla died of cancer on 22 October 1945.

1951

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

1959

In the 1959 New Year Honours, Slessor was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature.

Slessor counted Norman Lindsay, Hugh McCrae and Jack Lindsay among his friends.

1965

In 1965, Australian writer Hal Porter wrote of having met and stayed with Slessor in the 1930s.

He described Slessor as:

"...a city lover, fastidious and excessively courteous, in those qualities resembles Baudelaire, as he does in being incapable of sentimentalizing over vegetation, in finding in nature something cruel, something bordering on effrontery. He prefers chiselled stone to the disorganization of grass."

1971

He died suddenly of a heart attack on 30 June 1971 at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, North Sydney.

His ashes are interred in Rookwood Cemetery.

Vision: A Literary Quarterly, edited by Frank C. Johnson, Jack Lindsay & Kenneth Slessor:

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1976

A portrait of Slessor was painted by fellow Journalists' Club member William Pidgeon, who painted the portraits of practically every club president up to 1976.