Chris Wallace-Crabbe is Emeritus Professor in the Australian Centre at the University of Melboune. A poet and critic, his most recent collection of verse is By and Large (Carcanet 2001) and his forthcoming long poem, The Universe Looks Down (Brandl & Schlesinger). Imagining Australia, co-edited with Judith Ryan, was published from Harvard in 2004. He produced artists’ books with the painter Bruno Leti.
SynopsisThis is a wide-ranging, incisive study of contemporary poetry, its predicament and its rich traditions. While it focusses on Australian cultural conditions, it sees them in terms of the English-language...