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Sydney Church Harrex (21 July 1935 – 29 May 2015), better known as S. C. Harrex or Syd Harrex, was an Australian poet. He was founding head of the Center for Research on New Literatures in English (CRNLE) at
Flinders University Flinders University, established as The Flinders University of South Australia is a public university, public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across a number of locations in South Australia and ...
and was runner up for the
Commonwealth Poetry Prize The Commonwealth Poetry Prize was an annual poetry prize established in 1972, for a first published book of English poetry from a country other than the United Kingdom. It was initially administered jointly by the Commonwealth Institute and the Nat ...
in 1985 for ''Atlantis and Other Poems''. His academic specialty was Indian Literature in English. A memorial volume on Harrex was published in 2016.


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1935 births 2015 deaths 20th-century Australian academics Australian poets Academic staff of Flinders University University of Tasmania alumni {{Australia-poet-stub