Francis Kenna

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William Francis Kenna (21 September 1865 – 23 June 1932),^[1] known as Francis Kenna, was an Australian poet, journalist, and Labor Member of the Legislative Assembly in Queensland. He edited the "Brisbane Worker".

He published Banjo, of the Overflow, a parody of Banjo Paterson’s Clancy of the Overflow in 1892, as part of the Bulletin Debate about the true nature of life in the Australian bush. Like many of his poems (including those later published in Phases), it was first published in the Sydney Bulletin.

In 1907 he married Edith Elvira Stamp; they had a son Vernon.

Works

Songs of a season (1895, Melville, Mullen & Slade; Melbourne)
Phases (1915, Thos S Laidler, NSW)
Poems (no year)
Queensland authors and artists’ Xmas magazine (no year; Watson Ferguson, Brisbane) edited by Francis Kenna and issued by the Queensland Authors and Artists Association.

References

↑ "Records of members and office holders in 1860". Queensland Parliament. Retrieved 2008-10-04.

Australian National Bibliographical Database (which has 8 entries for works by or about Kenna).

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Name	Kenna, Francis
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Short description	Australian politician
Date of birth	21 September 1865
Place of birth
Date of death	23 June 1932
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