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This is a definitive volume of new and selected poetry by one of
Australia's most versatile poets and essayists.This book distils an
adult lifetime into the intense magic of poetry. Wallace-Crabbe is
a nature poet in the broadest possible sense: his poems, ranging
widely in tone and subject-matter, seek above all to convey the
richness and variety of our world, his sense that we are 'inserted
headlong into life' and must make the best of what comes to us.
Throughout his work - at times wryly philosophical, at times gently
elegiac - Wallace-Crabbe remains passionately committed to his
quest, 'troubling the stubborn world for meaning'.
Beginning in the last third of the twentieth century, Australian
literary and cultural studies underwent a profound transformation
to become an important testing ground of new ideas and theories.
How do Australian cultural products project a sense of the nation
today? How do Australian writers, artists, and film directors
imagine the Australian heritage and configure its place in a larger
world that extends beyond Australia's shores?
Ranging from the country's colonial beginnings to its more
globally oriented present, the nineteen essays by distinguished
scholars working on the cutting edge of the field present a
multi-faceted view of the vast land down under. A central theme is
the relation of cultural products to nature and history. Issues
explored include problems of race and gender, colonialism and
postcolonialism, individual and national identity, subjective
experience and international connections. Among others, the essays
treat major authors such as Peter Carey, David Malouf, and Judith
Wright.
The 2019 Australian election produced a surprise result showing,
not for the first time, that every election is there for the taking
- including the next one. Here are the ten steps to winning an
election. We have a democracy that performs relatively well, but
many Australian elections are very close. So-called 'unloseable'
elections are lost, reminding us that every election is a real
contest. In this indispensable book drawing from years of close-up
observation and analysis, historian and political journalist Chris
Wallace draws out the ten essential steps to winning an election.
The learner's error, she argues, is to grasp onto a couple of
factors - so-called 'conventional wisdom' - without considering a
full suite of winning factors and tracing the connections between
them. Wallace notes that even when a couple of factors are
significant in an election scenario, small improvements elsewhere
can make the difference between winning and losing if performance
and professionalism are maximised across the board. How to Win an
Election is not a book designed to change your political opinion.
It is a crucial resource for future political campaigns to ensure
credibility, competence and accountability. Most of all, it is for
party supporters and voters who can cast their vote knowing it has
been backed by the best possible efforts to create change.
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Rondo (Paperback)
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
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Shortlisted for the 2019 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in the
NSW Premier's Literature Awards. Chris Wallace-Crabbe's Rondo
harvests a decade's worth of new writing by one of Australia's
foremost poets. It paints a vivid portrait of eucalypt Australia's
current position in an rapidly changing world. The poet asks for
fresh meanings from Gallipoli and Scotland, from physics and from
`Art's porous auditorium', where poetry can still be heard. `The
words are only the words,' he writes, `which is more or less
everything.' Critic Eric Ormsby dubbed Wallace-Crabbe a `genial
smuggler of surprises': `his uncommon affability, even when
treating the gravest subjects, leaves the reader unprepared for his
sudden luxuriance of phrase.' (TLS)
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