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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'.
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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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