William Francis Kenna known as Francis Kenna, was an Australian poet, journalist, and Labor

Australian Labor Party

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 Member of the Legislative Assembly in Queensland. He edited the "Brisbane Worker".

He published Banjo, of the Overflow

Banjo, of the Overflow

Banjo, of the Overflow is a poem by Australian poet Francis Kenna. It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 27 August 1892 in reply to fellow poets Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson and Edward Dyson...

, a parody of Banjo Paterson’s Clancy of the Overflow in 1892, as part of the Bulletin Debate

Bulletin Debate

thumb|250px|right|[[Henry Lawson]] with [[J.F. Archibald]], the co-founder of [[The Bulletin]]The "Bulletin Debate" was a famous dispute in The Bulletin magazine from 1892-93 between two of Australia's most iconic writers and poets: Henry Lawson and Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson.- Origin :At the...

 about the true nature of life in the Australian bush. Like many of his poems (including those later published in Phases), it was first published in the Sydney Bulletin

The Bulletin

The Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine that was published in Sydney from 1880 until January 2008. It was influential in Australian culture and politics from about 1890 until World War I, the period when it was identified with the "Bulletin school" of Australian literature. Its influence...

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In 1907 he married Edith Elvira Stamp; they had a son Vernon.

Works

• Songs of a season (1895, Melville, Mullen & Slade; Melbourne)
• Phases (1915, Thos S Laidler, NSW)
• Poems (no year)
• Queensland authors and artists’ Xmas magazine (no year; Watson Ferguson, Brisbane) edited by Francis Kenna and issued by the Queensland Authors and Artists Association.