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Chris Wallace-Crabbe

New and Selected Poems

Chris Wallace-Crabbe( )
Author: Wallace-Crabbe, Chris
Series title:Oxford Poets Ser.
ISBN:978-1-906188-07-8
Publication Date:Feb 2013
Publisher:Carcanet Press, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $23.95
Book Description:

Ranging across various forms and tones, this poetry compilation expounds upon the Australian landscape, and its natural objects and inhabitants. Combining humor and gravity, it ponders the destruction of our planet and the detrimental effects of progress.

Book Details
Pages:160
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.25 x 8.5 x 0.8 Inches
Book Weight:0.4 Pounds
Author Biography
Wallace-Crabbe, Chris (Author)


Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe is an Australian poet born in Melbourne, 1934. He was educated at Scotch College, Yale University, and The University of Melbourne. He is a professor emeritus in the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne. He is also an essayist and a critic of the visual arts. His awards include: Centenary Medal in 2002, Doctor of Letters honoris causa 2006, and appointed a Member of the Order of Australia 2011. He won the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2015. This award is presented every three years to a Victorian author 'whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature, as well as to cultural and intellectual life.

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