Rex Ingamells
| Rex Ingamells | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells 19 January 1913 Orroroo, South Australia, Australia |
| Died |
30 December 1955 (aged 42) Dimboola, 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 Orroroo to a Methodist minister, and attended Port Lincoln High School, where he became addicted to poetry. He later attended the University of Adelaide. After a trip at the turn of the thirties, Ingamells became fascinated with Indigenous Australian culture, and became inspired to found the Jindyworobaks a few years later.
In 1935, his first book Gum Tops was published. He died near Dimboola, Victoria in a car-crash in 1955.
Bibliography
Novel
- Of Us Living Now (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)
Criticism
- Conditional Culture (1938)
External links
References
- ↑ Ingamells, Reginald Charles (Rex) (1913 - 1955) (Australian Dictionary of Biography) Accessed: 29 January 2007.
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