Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Poet
University of Melbourne Alumnus
BA 1957, MA 1964, LittD 2006
Poet, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, chairs the newly-established Australian Poetry Centre in St Kilda, Victoria.
His recent books of verse include By and Large (2001), The Universe Looks Down (2005), and Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw (2009). A volume of critical essays called Read It Again was published in 2005.
After graduating in English, Chris became Lockie Fellow in Australian Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne and has held a Personal Chair since 1988.
He was Harness Fellow at Yale University between 1965 and 1967, Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard from 1987 to 1988 and Visiting Professor at the University of Venice in 1973 and 2005.
Chris was born in 1934. After leaving school he worked at the Royal Mint in Melbourne as a cadet metallurgist, among other diverse jobs.
Among various awards he has won the Dublin Prize for Arts and Sciences and the Christopher Brennan Award for Literature.
