Kenneth Slessor
Kenneth Adolf Slessor OBE (27 March 1901 – 30 June 1971) was an Australian poet and journalist. 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.
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“Are you shouting at me, dead man, squeezing your face
In agonies of speech on speechless panes?
Cry louder, beat the windows, bawl your name!”
—Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971)
“I was singing at the time,
Just as prettily as he!”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)
“Time that is moved by little fidget wheels
Is not my Time,”
—Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971)