Occupation Poet Name Rex Ingamells Nationality Australian Role Poet | Period 1935 - 1955 Education University of Adelaide | |
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Born Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells
19 January 1913
Orroroo, South Australia,
Australia ( 1913-01-19 ) Died December 30, 1955, Dimboola, Australia Books Platypus and Kookaburra: Poem | ||
Literary movement Jindyworobak Movement | ||
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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.
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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.
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