Valentine Vallis
Queensland poet, lecturer and opera critic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Valentine Thomas Vallis was a Queensland poet, lecturer and opera critic. Early life Vallis was born in Gladstone, Queensland on 1 August 1916. His father, Michael was a fisherman and wharf worker. Vallis wrote of his father, mother Daisy and siblings in a number of his poems. After attending Gladstone State School and studying secretarial work at Rockhampton High School , Vallis became a clerk in the Gladstone Town Council. Throughout his childhood he had been an avid reader with a love for poetry. His extended family introduced him to opera. He enlisted in the Australian Army in 1940 and worked as a signaller, before being attached to the Army Education Service in New Guinea, using his secretarial skills. He was posted to Singapore after Japan surrendered, where he helped prisoners of Changi prison return to Australia. His unit's major, Tom Inglis Moore who was working with the Australian Army Education Service during World War II, encouraged him to write and read American poetry. Vallis submitted poems through the 1940s to The Bulletin, with his first poem being accepted by editor Douglas Stewart in 1944. Vallis' poems would primarily celebrate the sea, inspired by his youth in Gladstone.
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