Kenneth Mackenzie (author)

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Kenneth Mackenzie
Born Kenneth Ivo Brownley Langwell Mackenzie
(1913-09-25)25 September 1913
South Perth, Western Australia
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Goulburn, New South Wales
Other names Seaforth Mackenzie
Occupation author

Kenneth Ivo Brownley Langwell Mackenzie (25 September 1913 – 19 January 1955) was an Australian poet and novelist. His first and best-known novel, The Young Desire It (1937), was published under the pen name Seaforth Mackenzie.[1]

Life

Mackenzie was born in South Perth.[2] He grew up in Pinjarra, Western Australia, and attended Guildford Grammar School. His experiences at Guildford in part inspired his novel of 1937 The Young Desire It.[3] His novel Dead Men Rising was about the Cowra breakout of which he had first hand experience, having been stationed there at the time of the event.

His life in Sydney included involvement with the world of Norman Lindsay and Hugh McCrae and archival records show significant influence from them.[4] He received a number of literary grants and awards,[5] and left a number of works which have been since edited and published.[6]

He died by accidental drowning in Tallong Creek near Goulburn, New South Wales, aged 41.

Most of his works were originally published during his lifetime, however, some material has been reprinted by Text Publishing [7]

Writing

Novels

As Seaforth Mackenzie

  • The Young Desire It, London, Cape. 1937 [8]

As Kenneth Mackenzie

  • Chosen People, London, Cape. 1938 [9]
  • Dead Men Rising, London, Cape. 1951 [10]
  • The Refuge, London, Cape. 1954 [11]

Poetry

  • Our Earth, Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1937 [12]
  • The Moonlit Doorway, Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1944 [13]
  • Selected Poems, 1961 [14]
  • The poems of Kenneth MacKenzie, 1972 [15]

As editor

  • Australian poetry, 1951-2 (selected by Kenneth Mackenzie), Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1952.[16]

Posthumous collection

  • Rossiter, Richard (2000) The Model [17]

Biographical material

  • Davis, D (1965) Bibliography [18]
  • Davis, D (1967) Thesis about MacKenzie [19]
  • Jones, Evan (1969) Kenneth Mackenzie: Australian Writers and their Work Melbourne: Oxford University Press.[20]
  • Kinross-Smith, Graeme (1980) Australian Writers Melbourne: Thomas Nelson.[21]

Notes

  1. ↑ Brady, Veronica, 'Mackenzie, Kenneth Ivo Brownley Langwell (Seaforth) (1913–1955)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 28 July 2011. This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, (MUP), 2000
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  4. ↑ Kenneth Mackenzie manuscript collection Autograph manuscript of his poems 'The plover's country' and 'Duet for lovers'. Includes personal correspondence. Autograph letters by Mackenzie to Hugh McCrae and a draft from McCrae recalling his visit to Norman Lindsay. A typewritten letter, signed, to Norman Lindsay from Phillip Lindsay discussing Mackenzie's and Australian literature in general. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18703898
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  6. ↑ Rossiter, Richard (editor) (2000) The Model: Selected Writings of Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 1-876268-34-4
  7. ↑ https://www.textpublishing.com.au/authors/kennethmackenzie
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