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Kenneth Slessor, the Glossary

Kenneth Adolphe Slessor (27 March 190130 June 1971) was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II.^[1]

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Australian people of German-Jewish descent
Australian war correspondents

Angus & Robertson

Angus & Robertson (A&R) is a major Australian bookseller, publisher and printer.

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Ashfield, New South Wales

Ashfield is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), is the national bio-bibliographical database of Australian Literature.

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Bathurst Correctional Centre

Bathurst Correctional Centre, originally built as Bathurst Gaol in 1888, is a prison for men and women located in the city of Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, and operated by the Department of Communities and Justice.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator.

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Christopher Brennan

Christopher John Brennan (1 November 1870 – 5 October 1932) was an Australian poet, scholar and literary critic. Kenneth Slessor and Christopher Brennan are Australian male poets.

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Creative Commons license

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work".

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Darlinghurst Nights

Darlinghurst Nights is a musical.

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Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney is a digital humanities project to produce an online, expert-written encyclopaedia of all aspects of the history of Sydney.

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Digger (soldier)

Digger is a military slang term for primarily infantry soldiers from Australia and New Zealand.

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Douglas Stewart (poet)

Douglas Stewart (6 May 191314 February 1985) was a major twentieth century Australian poet, as well as short story writer, essayist and literary editor. Kenneth Slessor and Douglas Stewart (poet) are 20th-century Australian poets and Australian male poets.

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Five Bells

"Five Bells" (1939) is a meditative poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor.

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Five Visions of Captain Cook

"Five Visions of Captain Cook" (1931) is a poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor about James Cook.

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Hal Porter

Harold Edward "Hal" Porter (16 February 1911 – 29 September 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer. Kenneth Slessor and Hal Porter are 20th-century Australian poets and Australian male poets.

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Higher School Certificate (New South Wales)

The Higher School Certificate (HSC) is the credential awarded to secondary school students who successfully complete senior high school level studies (Years 11 and 12 or equivalent) in New South Wales and some ACT schools in Australia, as well as some international schools in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, and Papua New Guinea.

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Hugh McCrae

Hugh Raymond McCrae OBE (4 October 1876 – 17 February 1958) was an Australian writer, noted for his poetry. Kenneth Slessor and Hugh McCrae are Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire.

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Jack Lindsay

John "Jack" Lindsay,, FRSL (20 October 1900 – 8 March 1990) was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom, initially in Essex. Kenneth Slessor and Jack Lindsay are 20th-century Australian poets.

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John Thompson (Australian poet)

John Joseph Meagher Thompson (20 December 1907 – 19 July 1968) was an Australian poet, writer and radio broadcaster.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public.

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Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.

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Love This City

Love This City is the fourth studio album by Australian band The Whitlams, released by Black Yak through Warner in 1999.

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Mater Hospital, North Sydney

The Mater Hospital is a 233-bed private hospital located in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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McKellar, Australian Capital Territory

McKellar is a residential suburb in the Belconnen district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

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Meanjin

Meanjin, formerly Meanjin Papers and Meanjin Quarterly, is an Australian literary magazine with a reputation for democratic left-of-centre politics, as against the right-wing stance of its rival Quadrant.

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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.

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Mowbray House

Mowbray House is a heritage-listed historic building that was an independent, day and boarding school for boys, located in Chatswood, on the North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act 1960 for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people", thus functioning as a national library.

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Norman Lindsay

Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, art critic, novelist, cartoonist and amateur boxer.

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North American Cartographic Information Society

The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) is a US-based cartographic society founded in 1980.

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North Sydney, New South Wales

North Sydney is a suburb and major commercial district on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Orange, New South Wales

Orange is a city in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Peter Skrzynecki

Peter Michael Skrzynecki OAM (Australian pronunciation:; born 6 April 1945) is an Australian poet of Polish and Ukrainian origin.

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Poet

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.

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Port Jackson

Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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R. G. Howarth

Robert Guy Howarth (10 May 1906 — 21 January 1974) was an Australian scholar, literary critic and poet.

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Ronald McCuaig

Ronald McCuaig (2 April 19081 March 1993) was an Australian poet, journalist, literary critic, humorist and children's author. Kenneth Slessor and Ronald McCuaig are 20th-century Australian journalists and 20th-century Australian poets.

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Rookwood Cemetery

Rookwood Cemetery (officially named Rookwood Necropolis) is a heritage-listed cemetery in Rookwood, Sydney, Australia. Kenneth Slessor and Rookwood Cemetery are Burials at Rookwood Cemetery.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby XIII in non-Anglophone Europe and South America, and referred to colloquially as football, footy or league in its heartlands, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring wide and long with H-shaped posts at both ends.

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Smith's Weekly

Smith's Weekly was an Australian tabloid newspaper published from 1919 to 1950.

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Sydney Church of England Grammar School

The Sydney Church of England Grammar School (commonly known as Shore or Shore School) is a dual-campus independent Anglican single-sex and co-educational early learning, primary and secondary day and boarding school for boys, located on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Slessor

Also known as Kenneth Adolf Slessor, Kenneth Adolphe Slessor.

, Virgil Reilly, W. B. Yeats, William Pidgeon, World War II, 1959 New Year Honours.

Kenneth Slessor, the Glossary

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See also

Australian people of German-Jewish descent

Australian war correspondents

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