foundered and Banning returned to Sydney in 1964, to live alone in a small flat at Darlinghurst. He became depressed and unwell before his sudden death less than a year later on 2 November 1965. References Bibliography Everyman his own Hamlet (1951) The Instant's Clarity (1952) Apocalypse in Springtime (1956) There was a Crooked Man : the Poems of Lex Banning (1984) 1921 births 1965 deaths People with cerebral palsy 20th-century Australian poets Australian male poets Australian people of Belgian descent Australian people of Scottish descent Australian people of Swedish descent University of Sydney alumni 20th-century Australian male writers