  2015 - Afternoon in the Central Nervous System a Selection of Poems [Brazller Series of Australian Poets] (Paperback) ISBN-13: 9780807600108 ISBN-10: 0807600105 Genre: Literature & Fiction ?  2013 - New and Selected Poems [Oxford Poets] (Paperback) ISBN-13: 9781906188078 ISBN-10: 1906188076 Genre: Literature & Fiction ?     1999 - Approaching Austrialia Papers From the Harvard Australian Studies Symposium (Hardcover) ISBN-13: 9780674041899 ISBN-10: 0674041895 Genre: History ?  1999 - Approaching Australia Papers From the Harvard Australian Studies Symposium (Paperback) ISBN-13: 9780674041905 ISBN-10: 0674041909 Genre: History ?  1998 - Whirling [Oxford Poets] (Paperback) ISBN-13: 9780192880819 ISBN-10: 0192880810 Genre: Literature & Fiction ?  1995 - Selected Poems 19561994 [Oxford Poets] (Paperback) ISBN-13: 9780192824127 ISBN-10: 0192824120 Genre: Literature & Fiction ?  1993 - Rungs of Time [Oxford Poets] (Paperback) → Paperback ISBN-13: 9780192831606 ISBN-10: 0192831607 Genre: Literature & Fiction ?   1991 - For Crying Out Loud [Oxford Poets] (Paperback) ISBN-13: 9780192827890 ISBN-10: 0192827898 Genre: Literature & Fiction ?  1988 - I'm Deadly Serious [Oxford Paperbacks] (Paperback) ISBN-13: 9780192821317 ISBN-10: 0192821318 Genre: Literature & Fiction ?  1985 - The Amorous Cannibal [Oxford Poets] (Paperback) ISBN-13: 9780192119681 ISBN-10: 0192119680 Genre: Literature & Fiction ?   The Australian Nationalists Modern Critical Essays (Paperback) ISBN-13: 9780195503760 ISBN-10: 0195503767 ?    Melbourne or the Bush Essays on Australian Literature and Society [Perspectives in Australian literature] (Other) ISBN-13: 9780207130007 ISBN-10: 0207130000 ?   Chris Wallacecrabbe Reads From His Own Work [Poets on record] (Other) ISBN-13: 9780702208768 ISBN-10: 0702208760 ? Three Absences in Australian Writing [Monograph / Foundation for Australian Literary Studies] (Paperback) |
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Search - List of Books by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Chris Keith Wallace-Crabbe (born 6 May 1934) is an Australian poet and Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.
He was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond and educated at Scotch College, Yale University, and the University of Melbourne, where for much of his life he has worked, and is now Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre. He was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University and at the University of Venice, Ca'Foscari. He is also an essayist, a critic of the visual arts, and a notable public reader of his verse.
After leaving school, Wallace-Crabbe set out to be a metallurgist, but was drawn back to his childhood interest in books and art. After training in the RAAF, he worked as an electrical trade journalist while studying for his B.A. in the evenings. He published his first book of poetrywhile doing his Final Honors year. In 1961 he became Lockie Fellow in Australian Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne.Over the next decades he became Reader in English, and then held a Personal Chair from 1988. Thanks to the initiative of H.C. ("Nugget") Coombs, he was a Harkness Fellow at Yale University from 1965-67, mixing widely with American writers and developing his poetry in new directions. In later years he has spent time in Italy, reading and translating Italian verse.
Wallace-Crabbe's early collections were published in Australia, but in 1985 he began to publish with Oxford University Press, reaching an international public. Although he published some of his criticism and his one novel elsewhere, he remained with Oxford until 1998, after which date the Press ceased publishing live poets. He then took his work to Carcanet Publishers, in Manchester. Back in Australia he brought out two books with the Sydney firm of Brandl & Schlesinger. One of these was a highly experimental long poem, or "zany epic", on which he had been working for a dozen years. It would be fair to say that this dense and difficult poem divided the poet's readers.
Reviewers over the years have drawn attention time and again to the energetic mixture of demotic and elevated language which very often marks Wallace-Crabbe's poetry. For the poet this not only testifies to his wide interest in language but also to his sense of the stubborn plurality of our experience. Such mixed diction certainly persists in his very latest books, particularly in his sonnets and in the"Domestic Sublime" sequence of lyrics.
Since his retirement from university teaching he has continued to live in Melbourne, adhering to poetry. He is also Chair of the newly-established Australian Poetry Centre.
He was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond and educated at Scotch College, Yale University, and the University of Melbourne, where for much of his life he has worked, and is now Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre. He was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University and at the University of Venice, Ca'Foscari. He is also an essayist, a critic of the visual arts, and a notable public reader of his verse.
After leaving school, Wallace-Crabbe set out to be a metallurgist, but was drawn back to his childhood interest in books and art. After training in the RAAF, he worked as an electrical trade journalist while studying for his B.A. in the evenings. He published his first book of poetrywhile doing his Final Honors year. In 1961 he became Lockie Fellow in Australian Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne.Over the next decades he became Reader in English, and then held a Personal Chair from 1988. Thanks to the initiative of H.C. ("Nugget") Coombs, he was a Harkness Fellow at Yale University from 1965-67, mixing widely with American writers and developing his poetry in new directions. In later years he has spent time in Italy, reading and translating Italian verse.
Wallace-Crabbe's early collections were published in Australia, but in 1985 he began to publish with Oxford University Press, reaching an international public. Although he published some of his criticism and his one novel elsewhere, he remained with Oxford until 1998, after which date the Press ceased publishing live poets. He then took his work to Carcanet Publishers, in Manchester. Back in Australia he brought out two books with the Sydney firm of Brandl & Schlesinger. One of these was a highly experimental long poem, or "zany epic", on which he had been working for a dozen years. It would be fair to say that this dense and difficult poem divided the poet's readers.
Reviewers over the years have drawn attention time and again to the energetic mixture of demotic and elevated language which very often marks Wallace-Crabbe's poetry. For the poet this not only testifies to his wide interest in language but also to his sense of the stubborn plurality of our experience. Such mixed diction certainly persists in his very latest books, particularly in his sonnets and in the"Domestic Sublime" sequence of lyrics.
Since his retirement from university teaching he has continued to live in Melbourne, adhering to poetry. He is also Chair of the newly-established Australian Poetry Centre.
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