Kenneth Slessor: Selected Poems

Bibliography

Journals

Vision: A Literary Quarterly, edited by Frank C. Johnson, Jack Lindsay & Kenneth Slessor:

  • Vision: A Literary Quarterly, No. 1 (May 1923), Sydney: The Vision Press.
  • Vision: A Literary Quarterly, No. 2 (August 1923), Sydney: The Vision Press.
  • Vision: A Literary Quarterly, No. 3 (November 1923), Sydney: The Vision Press.
  • Vision: A Literary Quarterly, No. 4 (February 1924), Sydney: The Vision Press.

Poetry collections

  • Thief of the Moon, Sydney: Hand press of J. T. Kirtley (1924); limited edition of 150 copies.
  • Earth-visitors: Poems, London: Fanfrolico Press (1926); limited edition of 425 numbered copies.
  • Trio: A Book of Poems, with Harley Matthews and Colin Simpson, Sydney: Sunnybrook Press (1931); limited edition of 75 copies.
  • Darlinghurst Nights and Morning Glories: Being 47 Strange Sights Observed from Eleventh Storeys, in a Land of Cream Puffs and Crime, by a Flat-Roof Professor: and here set forth in Sketch and Rhyme, with illustrations by Virgil Reilly, Sydney: Frank C. Johnson (1931).[21]
  • Cuckooz Contrey, Sydney: Frank C. Johnson (1932); limited edition of 500 copies.[22]
  • Funny Farmyard: Nursery Rhymes and Painting Book, with drawings by Sydney Miller, Sydney: Frank Johnson (1933).[23]
  • Five Bells: XX Poems, Sydney: Frank C. Johnson (1939).
  • One Hundred Poems, 1919–1939, Sydney: Angus & Robertson (1944); revised edition published as Poems, 1957; new edition published as Selected Poems, 1978.

Essays/prose

Edited

Plaque, Sydney Writers Walk
  • Australian Poetry (1945)
  • Robert Guy Howarth; Kenneth Slessor; John Thompson, eds. (1961). The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse. Melbourne: Penguin.

Individual works

  • "Five Visions of Captain Cook" (1931)
  • "Five Bells" (1939)

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