By and Large - Oxford Poets Author:Chris Wallace-Crabbe This volume of poetry moves between the seductions of landscape and the character of selves in a world of rapid change, excitement and loss. A long central sonnet-sequence charts a life against the colours of 20th-century history. The poetry here rises to seek the nature of hope and of energy. Wallace-Crabbe is a writer who makes full use of a r... more »ich palette of language.« less