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Beach Burial
"Beach Burial" (1944) is a poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor. It was originally published in ''Southerly'' journal in 1944, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. The poem was written around the time of the battle of El Alamein in 1942 while Slessor was a war correspondent. It reflects his experience of seeing dead seamen being pulled from the surf and buried in the sand in graves marked with a cross bearing the words "Unknown Seaman". Critical reception ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' called it a "fine poem which reflects the futility of war, it expresses the bewildered pity of battle-hardened troops as they perform rough and ready but deeply-tender last rites over the sodden, nameless corpses." ''The Oxford Literary History of Australia'' stated that the poem was "notable for its formal experimentation with assonance, echo and half-rhyme." In his commentary on the poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Slessor
Kenneth Adolphe Slessor (27 March 190130 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 with his parents until 1903, when the family moved to Sydney. In Australia he 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. His family moved to Sydney in 1903. Slessor attended Mowbray House School (1910–1914) and the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (1915–1918), where he began to write poetry. His first published poem, "Goin'", about a wounded digger in Europe, remembering Sydney and its icons, appeared in '' The Bulletin'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southerly (journal)
''Southerly'' is an Australian literary magazine, established in 1939.Australian government culture and recreation portal Southerly home page It is published in hardcopy and online three times a year, and carries fiction and poetry by established and new authors as well as reviews and critical essays. ''The Long Paddock'' is an online supplement, carrying additional material. History ''Southerly'' began in 1939 as a four-page bulletin of the Sydney branch of the London-based English Association, an organisati ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Battle Of El Alamein
The First Battle of El Alamein (1–27 July 1942) was a battle of the Western Desert campaign of World War II, fought in Egypt between Axis (German and Italian) forces of the Panzer Army Africa—which included the under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel—and Allied (British Empire and Commonwealth) forces of the Eighth Army under General Claude Auchinleck. In this battle the British halted a second advance by the Axis forces into Egypt. Axis positions near El Alamein, only from Alexandria, were dangerously close to the ports and cities of Egypt, the base facilities of the Commonwealth forces and the Suez Canal. However, the Axis forces were too far from their base at Tripoli in Libya to remain at El Alamein indefinitely, which led both sides to accumulate supplies for more offensives, against the constraints of time and distance. Background Retreat from Gazala After their defeat at the Battle of Gazala in Eastern Libya in June 1942, the British Eighth Army, commanded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Hall (writer)
Rodney Hall AM (born 18 November 1935) is an Australian writer. Biography Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland (1971). In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Brisbane. Between 1967 and 1978 he was the Poetry Editor of ''The Australian''. He began publishing poetry in the 1970s and has since published fourteen novels, including ''Just Relations'' and ''The Island in the Mind''. He lived in Shanghai for a period in the late 1980s. From 1991 to 1994, he served as chair of the Australia Council. Hall lives in Victoria. In addition to a number of literary awards such as twice winning the Miles Franklin Award, he was appointed a Member of Order of Australia for "service to the Arts, particularly in the field of literature" in 1990. Hall's me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
101 Australian War Poems
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60 Classic Australian Poems
''60 Classic Australian Poems'' is an anthology of poems edited by Australian writer Geoff Page, published by Hardie Grant Books in 2008. The collection contains 60 poems from various sources and a commentary on each from the editor. Contents * " The Sick Stockrider," Adam Lindsay Gordon * " The Travelling Post Office," A. B. Paterson * "Nationality," Mary Gilmore * " Middleton's Rouseabout", Henry Lawson * "Towards the Source: 1894-97: 2," Christopher Brennan * "The Orange Tree," John Shaw Neilson * " The Play (The Sentimental Bloke)," C. J. Dennis * " I'm Like All Lovers" (aka "Poems XIV"), Lesbia Harford * " Beach Burial," Kenneth Slessor * " The Wind at Your Door," Robert D. FitzGerald * " The Mayan Books," A. D. Hope * " The Commercial Traveller's Wife," Ronald McCuaig * " The Children March," Elizabeth Riddell * "Baiamai's Never-Failing Stream," William Hart-Smith * "Mapooram," Roland Robinson * " Death of a Whale," John Blight * "Leopard-Skin," Douglas Stewart * " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1944. Events * The Ern Malley literary hoax is conceived when ''Angry Penguins'' editor Max Harris publishes the poems of the fictitious poet Ern Malley in the Autumn 1944 edition of his magazine. The poems had been concocted in 1943 by Australian writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart. Books * Bernard Cronin – ''The Shadows Mystery'' * Zora Cross – ''This Hectic Age'' * Zane Grey – ''Wilderness Trek: A Novel of Australia'' * Nevil Shute – ''Pastoral'' * Christina Stead – ''For Love Alone'' Short stories * Alan Marshall – "Trees Can Speak" * Katharine Susannah Prichard – ''Potch and Colour'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Peg Maltby ** ''Peg's Fairy Book'' ** ''Introducing Pip and Pepita'' Poetry * Rosemary Dobson – ''In a Convex Mirror: Poems'' * Geoffrey Dutton – ''Night Flight and Sunrise'' * E. M. England – ''Queensland Days : Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish poetry, Irish or French poetry, France). Events * June 1 & June 5 – The first and (modified) second lines respectively of Paul Verlaine's 1866 in poetry, 1866 poem ''Chanson d'automne'' (''Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne / Bercent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone.'') are broadcast by the Allies of World War II, Allies over BBC Radio Londres among coded messages to the French Resistance to prepare for the D-Day landings (second broadcast at 22:15 local time). In the ensuing Invasion of Normandy English soldier-poet Keith Douglas is killed; Vernon Scannell (as John Bain) experiences the incident that gives rise to the poem "Walking Wounded" (1965) and is wounded; and, during lulls in the fighting, Dennis Wilson (poet), Dennis B. Wilson is writing the poem that will be published as ''Elegy of a Common Soldier'' in 2012 in poetry, 2012. * October 2 – D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Poems
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech. * Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Poems
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