Author: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Publisher: Carcanet
ISBN: 184777704X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
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'.
Whirling
Author: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
WHIRLING is a new collection of poems by award-winning poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe, who is much-traveled and read and admired equally in America, Britain, and his home country Australia. His versatile use of language, including vivid Australian slang, is energetic and attractive, sometimes almost distracting his readers from a deeper seriousness and sadness.
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
WHIRLING is a new collection of poems by award-winning poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe, who is much-traveled and read and admired equally in America, Britain, and his home country Australia. His versatile use of language, including vivid Australian slang, is energetic and attractive, sometimes almost distracting his readers from a deeper seriousness and sadness.
The Amorous Cannibal
Author: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The poems in this collection move from psychological drama to expressive landscapes, from politics to the secret eloquence of household objects. "(Wallace-Crabbe) shows that verse from Australia can take its place beside the poetry of other great English-language cultures."--Peter Porter, Observer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The poems in this collection move from psychological drama to expressive landscapes, from politics to the secret eloquence of household objects. "(Wallace-Crabbe) shows that verse from Australia can take its place beside the poetry of other great English-language cultures."--Peter Porter, Observer
Selected Poems, 1956-1994
Author: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This selection has been made by the poet himself from his eleven collections, published from 1959 in Australia, and then since 1980 by Oxford University Press, up to the most recent title, Rungs of Time. He has chosen poems that still 'work' for his readers, and which bear witness to past selves.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This selection has been made by the poet himself from his eleven collections, published from 1959 in Australia, and then since 1980 by Oxford University Press, up to the most recent title, Rungs of Time. He has chosen poems that still 'work' for his readers, and which bear witness to past selves.
Collected Poems
Author: Vincent Buckley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980526929
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This harvesting of Vincent Buckley's work is a long overdue moment in Australian poetry. Not only was Buckley a profoundly original, steadily changing poet; he was also an intellectual leader in our culture during the politically demanding decades that followed World War Two. His poems, gathered here, bear witness to the conflicts of those years, to his Irish-Australian heritage, to interactions with modern American poetry and, above all, to his delicately lyrical sense of mortality. A nervous energy pulses everywhere. The last volume of Buckley's poetry appeared in 1991, three years after his death. Roughly three-quarters of that collection carried his working title, 'A Poetry Without Attitudes', signalling something essential about his later work. Having begun as a poet of haunting rhetorical power, he had gradually pumiced his verse so that it stood clear, without any intrusive sense of the poet's personality. His is a poetry of unique temper, surely. Here you will find the full range of it, previously published and unpublished.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980526929
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This harvesting of Vincent Buckley's work is a long overdue moment in Australian poetry. Not only was Buckley a profoundly original, steadily changing poet; he was also an intellectual leader in our culture during the politically demanding decades that followed World War Two. His poems, gathered here, bear witness to the conflicts of those years, to his Irish-Australian heritage, to interactions with modern American poetry and, above all, to his delicately lyrical sense of mortality. A nervous energy pulses everywhere. The last volume of Buckley's poetry appeared in 1991, three years after his death. Roughly three-quarters of that collection carried his working title, 'A Poetry Without Attitudes', signalling something essential about his later work. Having begun as a poet of haunting rhetorical power, he had gradually pumiced his verse so that it stood clear, without any intrusive sense of the poet's personality. His is a poetry of unique temper, surely. Here you will find the full range of it, previously published and unpublished.
Rondo
Author: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN: 1784106445
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
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)
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN: 1784106445
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
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)
Mappings of the Plane
Author: Gwen Harwood
Publisher: Carcanet
ISBN: 1847778992
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Gwen Harwood (1920-1995) is one of the best loved Australian poets of the twentieth century - and a fierce prankster, who published poems under half-a-dozen names and identities. By turns poignant, sensuous and mischievous, passionately musical, her poetry is marked by sure intelligence and a quicksilver, anti-authoritarian wit. This new selection of her poetry from 1943 to her death makes the full range of the work accessible for the first time to poetry-lovers in the northern hemisphere. With an introduction by the leading Harwood critic Gregory Kratzmann and the Australian poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe, who corresponded with Harwood, the selection includes hitherto little-known work along with poems which have become part of the central canon of Australian poetry.
Publisher: Carcanet
ISBN: 1847778992
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Gwen Harwood (1920-1995) is one of the best loved Australian poets of the twentieth century - and a fierce prankster, who published poems under half-a-dozen names and identities. By turns poignant, sensuous and mischievous, passionately musical, her poetry is marked by sure intelligence and a quicksilver, anti-authoritarian wit. This new selection of her poetry from 1943 to her death makes the full range of the work accessible for the first time to poetry-lovers in the northern hemisphere. With an introduction by the leading Harwood critic Gregory Kratzmann and the Australian poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe, who corresponded with Harwood, the selection includes hitherto little-known work along with poems which have become part of the central canon of Australian poetry.