Australian poetry classics: Kenneth Slessor’s Five Bells gives Sydney Harbour back its darkness

The Sydney Harbour Bridge seen from Milsons Point Michael Amadeus/Unsplash In our new series, we explore influential Australian poems. Sydney Harbour is one of the most recognisable places in Australia. Today, it usually enters the imagination as spectacle: bridge, Opera House, ferries, fireworks, blue water, bright weather, moneyed views. It is a harbour endlessly reproduced: on postcards, in real-estate language, in tourist campaigns, and in the bright graphic shorthand of Ken Done. Kenneth…