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Australian poet and emeritus professor

Christopher Keith Wallace-CrabbeAM FAHA (born 6 May ) is an Australian poet and emeritus professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.

Life and career

Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. His father was Kenneth Eyre Inverell Wallace-Crabbe, painter, printmaker, journalist and publisher, pilot in the RAF and ending World War II as Group Captain, and his mother Phyllis Vera May Cox Passmore was a pianist, and his brother Robin Wallace-Crabbe became an artist.

Chris Wallace-Crabbe interviewed by Ronald Simpson ; and, Laurence Collinson interviewed by Ronald Simpson in Ronald Simpson collection ; Format: Audio ; Author.

In his 'Diary' in the March issue of ABR, Chris Wallace-Crabbe tells us that he's been reading Ulysses and War and Peace ('alternately') as he travels to.

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Chris Wallace-Crabbe interviewed by Ronald Simpson ; and, Laurence Collinson interviewed by Ronald Simpson in Ronald Simpson collection.

Book by book, she moves through White's career, from the early days of Roy de Maistre's influence in London down to the exuberant "The Twyborn Affair", a.

He was educated at Scotch College, Yale University and the University of Melbourne, where for much of his life he has worked and is now a 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. He was the founding director