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

• 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)
• The Great South Land : An Epic Poem (1951)

Criticism

• Conditional Culture (1938)

Awards and honours

• 1951 winner Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for 'The Great South Land : An Epic Poem^[2]
• 1951 winner ALS Gold Medal for 'The Great South Land : An Epic Poem^[3]

External links

• 5 poems

References