Kenneth Slessor Selected Poems by Kenneth Slessor

• HSC Year 12 Prescribed Texts
• Common Module: English Standard, English Advanced and English Studies
• Texts and Human Experiences
• Poetry

‘Wild Grapes’, ‘Gulliver’, ‘Out of Time’, ‘Vesper-Song of the Reverend Samuel Marsden’,
‘William Street’, ‘Beach Burial’

The definitive collection of work from one of Australia’s preeminent twentieth century poets, Kenneth Slessor, drawing from his acclaimed books, Earth Visitors (1926), Cuckooz Contrey (1932) and Five Bells (1939).

this selection was first published as One Hundred Poems in 1944 (with the addition of three further poems in 1957), and includes an introduction by Dennis Haskell and an Author’s Note.