Chris Wallace-Crabbe
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Chris Wallace-Crabbe (b.1934) poet and essayist, keeps writing away in the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne. His Selected Poems 1956–1994, won the Melbourne (Australia) Age Book of the Year Prize for 1995 and the D J O’Hearn Prize for Poetry. He has published thirteen collections of verse, as well as artists’ books. With Kerry Flattley he edited the Amnesty International anthology, From the Republic of Conscience, which has been pirated into Icelandic. Wallace-Crabbe’s collection of poems, Whirling, was published by Oxford University Press in 1998, followed by Author, Author!, a wicked collection of literary anecdotes.
Material available on this site:
A selection of poems: No, Les / In the Suburbs of Private Life / Knowing the Score / A Faun’s Arvo / It’s Scary
Chris Wallace-Crabbe in conversation with David McCooey
Chris Wallace-Crabbe’s Internet site provides a biography, a curriculum vitae, a bibliography, some trivia, and a series of poems printed and read aloud: at http://www.hlc.unimelb.edu.au/cwc/index.html
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