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Rex Ingamells


Born
in Orroroo, Australia
January 19, 1913

Died
December 30, 1955

Genre
Poetry, Nonfiction, History


The son of a Methodist minister, Rex Ingamells studied at the University of Adelaide where he developed a fascination with Indigenous Australian culture. By the 1930s, the cultural practices of First Peoples had been largely eradicated by white colonisation. Ingamells is considered the founder of the Jindyworobak Movement in Australian poetry, a group of young Anglo poets who sought to use the relationship of Indigenous Australians with the land as a model for how white Australians should write and think. The movement rejected many of the prevailing trends of British poetry, which were popular with mainstream Australian poets.

Ingamells published at least eight volumes of poetry and two novels in addition to his lead role in the Jindyworobak ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 12 ratings · 15 reviews · 36 distinct works
Aranda Boy
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1952 — 3 editions
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Platypus and Kookaburra
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions
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Gumtops
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1935
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The Great South Land
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Conditional Culture
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Of Us Now Living: A Novel o...
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Handbook of Australian Lite...
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Jindyworobak anthology 1939
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Jindyworobak anthology 1940
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Jindyworobak anthology 1941
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Series by Rex Ingamells

Jindyworobak anthology 1938 Jindyworobak anthology 1939 Jindyworobak anthology 1941
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