Rex Ingamells

Rex Ingamells
Born Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells
(1913-01-19)19 January 1913
Orroroo, South Australia, Australia
Died 30 December 1955(1955-12-30) (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, South Australia 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

Poetry

Criticism

Awards and honours

References

  1. ↑ Ingamells, Reginald Charles (Rex) (1913 - 1955) (Australian Dictionary of Biography) Accessed: 29 January 2007.
  2. ↑ Austlit - The Great South Land by Rex Ingamells
  3. ↑ "Crouch Prize for Literature to R. Ingamells" The Age, 7 April 1952, p5


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