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Kenneth Adolphe Slessor OBE (27 March – 30 June ) [1] 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.

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Kenneth Slessor (born March 27, 1901, Orange, N.S.W., Australia—died July 30, 1971, Sydney) was an Australian poet and journalist best known for his poems “Beach Burial,” a moving tribute to Australian troops who fought in World War II, and “Five Bells,” his most important poem, a meditation on art, time, and death.

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Kenneth Adolphe Slessor OBE (27 March 1901 – 30 June 1971) [1] 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.

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Kenneth Slessor on 3 January 1949
Born	(1901-03-27)27 March 1901 Orange, New South Wales, Australia
Died	30 June 1971(1971-06-30) (aged 70) North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation	Poet, journalist
Education
Years active	1924–1970
Spouses	Noëla Glasson (m. 1922; dec'd. 1945) Pauline Wallace (m. 1951; dis. 1961)
Children	Paul Slessor

Kenneth Adolphe SlessorOBE (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.

Early life

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 Wal

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Kenneth Adolf Slessor (), poet and journalist, was born on 27 March at Orange, New South Wales, second son and eldest of three surviving children of Robert Schloesser, mining engineer, and his native-born wife Margaret Ella, née McInnes, whose parents came from the Hebrides.

Kenneth Adolf Slessor - Australian Dictionary of Biography

Kenneth Adolf Slessor (1901-1971), poet and journalist, was born on 27 March 1901 at Orange, New South Wales, second son and eldest of three surviving children.

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Kenneth Adolf Slessor (1901-1971), poet and journalist, was born on 27 March 1901 at Orange, New South Wales, second son and eldest of three surviving children of Robert Schloesser, mining engineer, and his native-born wife Margaret Ella, née McInnes, whose parents came from the Hebrides.

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Kenneth Slessor was an Australian poet and journalist best known for his poems “Beach Burial,” a moving tribute to Australian troops who fought in World War II, and “Five Bells,” his most important poem, a meditation on art, time, and death.

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Kenneth Adolphe Slessor OBE (27 March – 30 June ) 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.

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