Spouse(s) Edith Elvira Stamp Party Australian Labor Party Full Name Francis Kenna Occupation Poet, Journalist | Nationality Australian Name Francis Kenna Role Poet | |
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Other politicalaffiliations Independent, Ministerial, Opposition Died June 23, 1932, Brisbane, Australia | ||
Political party Australian Labor Party | ||
Poem Banjo Of The Overflow Francis Kenna
Francis Kenna (21 September 1865 – 23 June 1932), was an Australian poet, journalist, and Labor Member of the Legislative Assembly in Queensland. He edited the "Brisbane Worker".
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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 two sons, Herbert and Vernon. Kenna died in 1932 and was buried in Lutwyche Cemetery.
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