Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Chris 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.

Contents 1 Awards 2 Works 2.1 Poetry 2.1.1 Recorded poetry 2.2 Fiction 2.3 Literary criticism 2.4 Edited 3 Notes 4 References 4.1 External links

Awards

• 1992 - Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Poettry Award with Kerry Flattley for From the Republic of Conscience ^[1]
• 2002 - winner of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer's Festival^[2]

Works

Poetry

• 1959: The Music of Division, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
• 1962: Eight Metropolitan Poems, Adelaide: Australian Letters
• 1963: In Light and Darkness, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
• 1967: The Rebel General, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
• 1971: Where the Wind Came, Sydney: Angus and Robertson
• 1973: Selected Poems, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
• 1976: The Foundations of Joy, (Poets of the Month Series), Sydney: Angus & Robertson
• 1979: The Emotions Are Not Skilled Workers, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
• 1985: The Amorous Cannibal, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• 1988: I'm Deadly Serious, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• 1989: Sangue e l'acqua, translated and edited by Giovann Distefano, Abano Terme: Piovan Editore
• 1990: For Crying Out Loud, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• 1993: Rungs of Time, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• 1995: Selected Poems 1956-1994, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• 1998: Whirling, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• 2001: By and Large, Manchester: Carcanet; and Sydney; Brandl and Schlesinger
• 2003: A Representative Human, Brunswick: Gungurru Press
• 2004: Next
• 2005: The Universe Looks Down, Brandl & Schlesinger, ISBN 1-876040-74-2
• 2006: Then

Recorded poetry

• 1973: Vinyl record: Chris Wallace-Crabbe Reads From His Own Verse, St.Lucia
• 2000: The Poems; Brunswick: Gungurru

Fiction

• 1981: Splinters, Adelaide

Literary criticism

• 1974: Melbourne or the Bush: Essays on Australian Literature and Society, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
• 1979: Toil and Spin: Two Directions in Modern Poetry, Melbourne: Hutchinson
• 1983: Three Absences in Australian Writing, Townsville: Foundation for Australian Literary Studies
• 1990: Poetry and Belief, Hobart: University of Tasmania, 1990
• 1990: Falling into Language, Melbourne: Oxford University Press

Edited

• 1963: Six Voices: Contemporary Australian Poets, Sydney: Angus & Robertson; American Edition, Westport, 1979
• 1971: Australian Poetry 1971, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
• 1980: The Golden Apples of the Sun: Twentieth Century Australian Poetry, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
• 1981: The Australian Nationalists: Modern Critical Essays, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, (with Peter Pierce),
• 1984: Clubbing of the Gunfire: 101 Australian War Poems, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1984 (with D. Goodman and D.J. Hearn)
• 1911: Multicultural Australia: the Challenges of Change, Newham (with Kerry Flattley),
• 1992: From the Republic of Conscience, Melbourne: Aird Books in association with Amnesty International; and New York: White Pine Press, 1992 (with Kerry Flattley and Sigurdur A. Magnusson), ISBN 0947214216
• 1994: Ur Riki Samviskunnar, Rejkavik: Amnesty International
• 1998: Author, Author! Tales of Australian Literary Life, Melbourne: O.U.P., 1998 (with Harold Bolitho)
• 1998: Associate Editor (with Bruce Bennett and Jennifer Strauss): The Oxford Literary History of Australia, Melbourne: Oxford University Press
• 1998: Approaching Australia: Papers from the Harvard Australian Studies Symposium, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Committee on Australian Studies
• 2002: La Poésie Australienne, Valenciennes: Presses Universitaires, (with Simone Kadi)

Notes

References

External links

• Website

Persondata
NAME	Wallace-Crabbe, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	poet
DATE OF BIRTH	6 May 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Richmond, Victoria, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH