Rex Ingamells

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Rex Ingamells (1913- was an Australian poet, generally credited with being the leading light of the Jindyworobak Movement.

He was born in Orroroo to a Methodist minister, and attended Port Lincoln High School, where he became addicted to poetry. After a trip at the turn of the thirties, Ingamells became fascinated with Aboriginal culture, and became inspired to found the Jindyworobaks a few years later.

In 1935, his first book Gum Tops was published.