Selected poems By Chris Wallace-Crabbe

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Chris Keith Wallace Crabbe is an Australian poet and Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre University of Melbourne He was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond and educated at Scotch College Yale University and the University of Melbourne where for much of his life he has worked and is now Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre He was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University and at the University of Venice CaFoscari He is also an essayist a critic of the visual arts and a notable public reader of his verse After leaving school Wallace Crabbe set out to be a metallurgist but was drawn back to his childhood interest in books and art After training in the RAAF he worked as an electrical t Chris Keith Wallace Crabbe is an Australian poet and Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre University of Melbourne He was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond and educated at Scotch College Yale University and the University of Melbourne where for much of his life he has worked and is now Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre He was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University and at the University of Venice Ca Foscari He is also an essayist a critic of the visual arts and a notable public reader of his verse After leaving school Wallace Crabbe set out to be a metallurgist but was drawn back to his childhood interest in books and art After training in the RAAF he worked as an electrical trade journalist while studying for his B. Book Selected poems A in the evenings He published his first book of poetry while doing his Final Honors year In 1961 he became Lockie Fellow in Australian Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne Over the next decades he became Reader in English and then held a Personal Chair from 1988 Thanks to the initiative of H. Book Selected poems In 2015 Wallace Crabbe was awarded the prestigious Melbourne Prize for Literature site_link Selected poems