Life
Slessor was born Kenneth Adolphe Schloesser in Orange, New South Wales. His family moved to Sydney in 1903. Slessor attended Mowbray House School (1910–1914) and the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (1915–1918), where he began to write poetry. His first published poem was in 1917 about a digger in Europe, remembering Sydney and its icons.
Slessor graduated in 1918 and joined the Sydney Sun as a journalist. In 1919, seven of his poems were published. Slessor married Noela Glasson, who was 28, on 18 August 1922. They lived in Chatswood, New South Wales.
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