Rex Ingamells
Rex Ingamells | |
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Victoria, Australia | |
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | Australian |
Period | 1935–1955 |
Literary movement | Jindyworobak Movement |
Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells (19 January 1913 – 30 December 1955) was an Australian poet, generally credited with being the leading light of the Jindyworobak Movement.[1]
Rex Ingamells was born in
In 1935, his first book Gum Tops was published. He died near
Early life
Ingamells was born on 19 January 1913 in Orroroo, South Australia. He was the oldest of four children born to Mabel Gwendolen (née Fraser) and Eric Marfleet Ingamells. His father was a Methodist minister and the family moved frequently around country South Australia during his childhood. Ingamells attended schools in Meadows, Burra and Port Lincoln, before being sent to Adelaide to board at Prince Alfred College from 1927 to 1930. He attended the University of Adelaide and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1934, majoring in history.[1]
Bibliography
Novel
- Of Us Living Now (1952)
- Aranda boy (1952)
Poetry
- Gumtops (1935)
- Forgotten People (1936)
- Sun-Freedom (1938)
- Memory of Hills (1940)
- Content are the Quiet Ranges (1943)
- Unknown Land (1943)
- Selected Poems (1944)
- Come Walkabout (1948)
- The Great South Land : An Epic Poem(1951)
- Shifting Camp
- The Golden Bird
Criticism
- Conditional Culture (1938)
Awards and honours
- 1951 winner The Great South Land : An Epic Poem[3]
- 1951 winner The Great South Land : An Epic Poem[4]
External links
References
- ^ a b Ingamells, Reginald Charles (Rex) (1913–1955) (Australian Dictionary of Biography) Accessed: 29 January 2007.
- ^ "Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells". State Library of South Australia. 19 January 1913. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
- ^ Austlit - The Great South Land by Rex Ingamells
- ^ "Crouch Prize for Literature to R. Ingamells" The Age, 7 April 1952, p5