Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells (19 January 191330 December 1955) was an Australian poet, generally credited with being the leading light of the
Jindyworobak Movement
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[Ingamells, Reginald Charles (Rex) (1913–1955)]
(Australian Dictionary of Biography
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Rex Ingamells was born in
Orroroo Orroroo may refer to:
* Orroroo, South Australia, a town and locality
* Orroroo Enterprise, a former newspaper in South Australia
*District Council of Orroroo, a former local government area in South Australia
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*District Council of Orroroo ...
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South Australia to a
Methodist minister, and attended Port Lincoln High School, where he became interested in poetry. He later attended
Prince Alfred College and 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.
Early life
Ingamells was born on 19 January 1913 in
Orroroo, South Australia. He was the oldest of four children born to Mabel Gwendolen (née Fraser) and Eric Marfleet Ingamells. His father was a Methodist minister and the family moved frequently around country South Australia during his childhood. Ingamells attended schools in
Meadows,
Burra and
Port Lincoln, before being sent to
Adelaide to board at
Prince Alfred College from 1927 to 1930. He attended the
University of Adelaide and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1934, majoring in history.
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Bibliography
Novel
* ''Of Us Living Now'' (1952)
* ''Aranda boy'' (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)
* '' The Great South Land : An Epic Poem'' (1951)
* ''Shifting Camp''
Criticism
* ''Conditional Culture'' (1938)
Awards and honours
* 1951 winner Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for ' The Great South Land : An Epic Poem''[Austlit - ''The Great South Land'' by Rex Ingamells]
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* 1951 winner ALS Gold Medal for ' The Great South Land : An Epic Poem''["Crouch Prize for Literature to R. Ingamells" ''The Age'', 7 April 1952, p5]
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External links
5 poems
References
1913 births
1955 deaths
University of Adelaide alumni
Road incident deaths in Victoria (state)
20th-century Australian poets
Australian male poets
ALS Gold Medal winners
People from Orroroo, South Australia
20th-century Australian male writers
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