Kenneth Slessor
Australian modernist poet whose Five Bells, an elegy for a drowned friend, is considered the finest poem in Australian literature. His Collected Poems are a landmark of Australian modernism.
Works
- Earth-VisitorsSurrealist poems celebrating visionary experience and imagination
- Cuckooz ContreyExperimental collection with playful language and invented worlds
- Five Visions of Captain CookPoetic sequence examining exploration, Empire, and Captain Cook
- One Hundred PoemsSelected poems spanning Slessor's modernist career
- Collected PoemsComplete poems of Australia's most ambitious twentieth-century poet