Rex Ingamells

Rex Ingamells
Born	Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells 19 January 1913 Orroroo, South Australia, Australia
Died	30 December 1955 (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

1. Ingamells, Reginald Charles (Rex) (1913 - 1955) (Australian Dictionary of Biography) Accessed: 29 January 2007.
2. Austlit - The Great South Land by Rex Ingamells
3. "Crouch Prize for Literature to R. Ingamells" The Age, 7 April 1952, p5