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(a.k.a.
Lea, Shelton Giles Kimball; Shelton
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Born: 25 Aug 1946 Fitzroy North, Victoria
Died: 13 May 2005 Melbourne, Victoria
Gender: Male
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Poet Shelton Lea grew up in Toorak, Melbourne, but at twelve he ran away from home and school and lived on the streets, stealing to survive. He was detained in various reform schools and in Pentridge jail. It was in prison that he discovered poetry, later writing that poetry 'allowed me to live for several years inside/ because it altered my point of view' ('doing times'). He was later to be influential in raising the minimum age for jailing teenagers, speaking in an interview on the ABC's progr....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
Last amended:
28 Nov 2008