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From early work on Australian suburbs to the more public and international playfulness of his contemporary poetry, Chris Wallace-Crabbe has selected poems from eleven collections published between 1959 and 1993 for this book. The poet sought to include poems that, in the mind of his friends, critics, and not least, himself, still "worked." He also intended this selection to bear witness of his past selves in poetry. The poems trace an arc from his life in Australia to the "combination of seriousness and decorative hedonism" found in his poetry today. The result is a fascinating overview of a poet whose style reveals the depth, joy, and fragility of language.
| Citizen | 1 | |
| Ancient Historian | 2 | |
| Practical Politics | 3 | |
| The Wife's Story | 4 | |
| A Wintry Manifesto | 5 | |
| In Light and Darkness | 7 | |
| Every Night about this Time | 9 | |
| The Swing | 10 | |
| Wind and Change | 10 | |
| Melbourne | 11 | |
| A Sentimental Education | 12 | |
| Carnations | 13 | |
| Nature, Language, the Sea: an Essay | 13 | |
| Traditions, Voyages | 15 | |
| The Apparition | 16 | |
| The Threat | 17 | |
| The Centaur Within | 18 | |
| The Joker | 19 | |
| In Hay Fever Time | 20 | |
| Losses and Recoveries | 21 | |
| Evening at San Miguel | 23 | |
| Other People | 24 | |
| Last Page from an Explorer's Journal | 25 | |
| Real Estate | 26 | |
| The Men of Meat | 27 | |
| The Wild Colonial Puzzler | 28 | |
| It | 29 | |
| Again | 29 | |
| Meditation with Memories | 30 | |
| Hey There! | 31 | |
| The Collective Invention | 32 | |
| Keeping One's Head | 33 | |
| Genesis | 34 | |
| The Shape-Changer | 36 | |
| Bennelong | 37 | |
| New Carpentry | 38 | |
| Puck in January | 39 | |
| Pantuns | 40 | |
| In the Wilderness | 41 | |
| Old Men during a Fall of Government | 42 | |
| Now that April's Here | 43 | |
| The Mental Traveller's Landfall | 44 | |
| Introspection | 45 | |
| Gaspard de la Nuit | 47 | |
| Mind | 48 | |
| Abhorring a Vacuum | 49 | |
| Nub | 50 | |
| Exit the Players | 51 | |
| The Bits and Pieces | 52 | |
| Panoptics | 63 | |
| Practitioners of Silence | 64 | |
| Sacred Ridges above Diamond Creek | 65 | |
| A Stone Age Decadent | 66 | |
| The Amorous Cannibal | 69 | |
| The Well-Dreamed Man | 70 | |
| There | 71 | |
| The Starlight Express | 72 | |
| A Glimpse of Shere Khan | 73 | |
| Genius Loci | 74 | |
| Sonnets to the Left | 75 | |
| The Mirror Stage | 80 | |
| Stardust | 81 | |
| God | 83 | |
| The Lorelei | 84 | |
| The Thing Itself | 85 | |
| They | 86 | |
| An Elegy | 87 | |
| The Life of Ideas | 88 | |
| The Inheritance | 91 | |
| Mental Events | 92 | |
| River Run | 93 | |
| The Evolution of Tears | 94 | |
| The Sound | 95 | |
| For Crying Out Loud | 96 | |
| Puck Disembarks | 97 | |
| The Bush | 98 | |
| And the World Was Calm | 99 | |
| Like Vibrations of a Bell | 101 | |
| Trace Elements | 102 | |
| Afternoon in the Central Nervous System | 103 | |
| Opera with Phantoms | 104 | |
| Free Will | 105 | |
| Call Me Jack | 106 | |
| Garth McLeod Brooding | 107 | |
| Sunset Sky near Coober Pedy | 109 | |
| Looking down on Cambodia | 110 | |
| Reality | 111 | |
| Dusky Tracts | 112 | |
| Ode to Morpheus | 113 | |
| Morpheus Replies | 114 | |
| What Are These Coming to the Sacrifice? | 115 | |
| Why Do We Exist? | 116 |
Overview
From early work on Australian suburbs to the more public and international playfulness of his contemporary poetry, Chris Wallace-Crabbe has selected poems from eleven collections published between 1959 and 1993 for this book. The poet sought to include poems that, in the mind of his friends, critics, and not least, himself, still "worked." He also intended this selection to bear witness of his past selves in poetry. The poems trace an arc from his life in Australia to the "combination of seriousness and ...