Selected Poems
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Chris Wallace-Crabbe stands as one of Australia's most celebrated and intellectually rigorous poets, and Selected Poems gathers the finest work from a career defined by sharp wit, philosophical depth, and an abiding curiosity about the human condition. Drawing from earlier collections including In Light and Darkness, The Music of Division, The Rebel General, and Where the Wind Came, this volume presents a poet who is equally at home in the lyric and the meditative, mapping the tensions between the personal and the political, the local and the universal. Wallace-Crabbe's verse is distinguished by its precise, energetic language and a distinctly Australian sensibility that refuses parochialism, instead reaching toward the broader traditions of English and European poetry. His poems chronicle landscapes both physical and intellectual, interrogating history, identity, and moral responsibility with a voice that is at once accessible and demanding. For readers new to his work, this collection is an ideal introduction; for those already acquainted, it is an essential testament to a major poetic intelligence.
Author: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Format: Hardback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Chris Wallace-Crabbe stands as one of Australia's most celebrated and intellectually rigorous poets, and Selected Poems gathers the finest work from a career defined by sharp wit, philosophical depth, and an abiding curiosity about the human condition. Drawing from earlier collections including In Light and Darkness, The Music of Division, The Rebel General, and Where the Wind Came, this volume presents a poet who is equally at home in the lyric and the meditative, mapping the tensions between the personal and the political, the local and the universal. Wallace-Crabbe's verse is distinguished by its precise, energetic language and a distinctly Australian sensibility that refuses parochialism, instead reaching toward the broader traditions of English and European poetry. His poems chronicle landscapes both physical and intellectual, interrogating history, identity, and moral responsibility with a voice that is at once accessible and demanding. For readers new to his work, this collection is an ideal introduction; for those already acquainted, it is an essential testament to a major poetic intelligence.