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Dedication: For my children and their long, happy lives
Contents
- Salt on the Tonguei"We just cant do without it, watery friends", single work poetry (p. 17)
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Morpheus, While Half Asleepi"The muse of failed memory",
single work
poetry
(p. 18-20)
Note: With title: While Half Asleep
- On the Lawn All Dayi"Friday. Takes more than this to interest", single work poetry (p. 21-22)
- Spranto Losti"Once on a time", single work poetry (p. 23-24)
- A Languagei"The summer streets run full of other diction,", single work poetry (p. 25)
- An Autumnali"When I come back to this garden after my death", single work poetry (p. 26-27)
- Reverie of Dora Pamphleti"When I'm a-snooze in my basket", single work poetry (p. 28-29)
- Skinsi"We feel at home in here:", single work poetry (p. 30-33)
- The Big Badi"Australian children lie there dreaming of wolves.", single work poetry (p. 34)
- A Lowly Cattle Shedi"Sweet enough, those", single work poetry (p. 35)
- The Sharpeneri"Soft cedar turns against the blade", single work poetry (p. 36)
- Surfacesi"A shiny parquet floor", single work poetry (p. 37-38)
- Summertimei"What is plangent", single work poetry (p. 39)
- Shadowsi"We follow them around, or trot ahead", single work poetry (p. 40-42)
- More Swift than Sterni"For years you've taught us all those things", single work poetry (p. 43-45)
- The Dream Injunctionsi"The hand has its firm grip on the fist.", single work poetry (p. 46-47)
- Robert Browning at Bundanoni"There’s a kookaburra chortling, so I think it’s time for tea.", single work poetry (p. 48-49)
- Gymnorhina Tibiceni"That was the day rain fell", single work poetry (p. 50-51)
- Glory Bei"The very small", single work poetry (p. 52-54)
- Concerning Cheeri"When the goats and sheep are sorted with angelical advice", single work poetry (p. 55-56)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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"Have You Ever Heard the Havoc of Remembering?" Yet Softly Told
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 28 no. 1 2014; (p. 247-248)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry -
Cassandra Atherton Reviews New and Selected Poems by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , May no. 15 2014;
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry -
The Pleasure of Well-Made Rooms : Poetry in Review
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 73 no. 1 2014; (p. 42-51)
— Review of Tempo 2013 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion 2013 selected work poetry ; Chains of Snow 2013 selected work poetry ; Notes for the Translators : From 142 New Zealand and Australian Poets 2012 anthology poetry ; Contemporary Asian Australian Poets 2013 anthology poetry'The veins of good work keep getting richer, and the number of poets capable of writing at a level that demands attention continues to grow. From Lisa Gorton's meditations on our emotionally inflected habitations, to Sarah Day's desire to find the words for the presences she encounters; from a selection of more than fifty years' poetry from Chris Wallace-Crabbe, to new work sparked by confrontations between Asian and eastern European traditions on the one hand, and the experience of Australia on the other: each year, Australian poetry is looking more and more like a world. Whatever forces encourage us to operate transnationally - and some of them are in evidence in these collections - one end of the continuum of practice will be grounded in the regional and national for many years to come. Whether such traditions eventually evaporate before technologies we can still barely imagine - to say nothing of the proliferation of texts, and the difficulty of tracking them - we are nevertheless powering ahead, making them deeper, richer and more various.' (Publication abstract)
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Wisely Versed in the Seasons of Change
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 April 2013; (p. 30-31) The Age , 27 April 2013; (p. 24) The Canberra Times , 25 April 2013; (p. 22)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry -
A Resilient and Brilliantly Observant Poet
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 350 2013;
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry
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A Resilient and Brilliantly Observant Poet
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 350 2013;
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry -
Wisely Versed in the Seasons of Change
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 April 2013; (p. 30-31) The Age , 27 April 2013; (p. 24) The Canberra Times , 25 April 2013; (p. 22)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry -
Heading Into Poetic Life
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1-2 June 2013; (p. 20-21)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry -
The Pleasure of Well-Made Rooms : Poetry in Review
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 73 no. 1 2014; (p. 42-51)
— Review of Tempo 2013 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion 2013 selected work poetry ; Chains of Snow 2013 selected work poetry ; Notes for the Translators : From 142 New Zealand and Australian Poets 2012 anthology poetry ; Contemporary Asian Australian Poets 2013 anthology poetry'The veins of good work keep getting richer, and the number of poets capable of writing at a level that demands attention continues to grow. From Lisa Gorton's meditations on our emotionally inflected habitations, to Sarah Day's desire to find the words for the presences she encounters; from a selection of more than fifty years' poetry from Chris Wallace-Crabbe, to new work sparked by confrontations between Asian and eastern European traditions on the one hand, and the experience of Australia on the other: each year, Australian poetry is looking more and more like a world. Whatever forces encourage us to operate transnationally - and some of them are in evidence in these collections - one end of the continuum of practice will be grounded in the regional and national for many years to come. Whether such traditions eventually evaporate before technologies we can still barely imagine - to say nothing of the proliferation of texts, and the difficulty of tracking them - we are nevertheless powering ahead, making them deeper, richer and more various.' (Publication abstract)
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Chris Wallace-Crabbe, New and Selected Poems
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 3 2013; (p. 120-135)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry