Publisher's Synopsis
This new volume of poetry by Chris Wallace-Crabbe moves between the seductions of landscape and the character of selves in a world of rapid change, excitement and loss. A long central sonnet-sequence charts a life against the colours of twentieth-century history. The poetry rises to seek the nature of hope and of energy at the Millennium. Wallace-Crabbe is here, as ever, a writer who makes full use of a rich palette of language.
Chris Wallace-Crabbe stands out from the Melbourne school of poets: urbane and wry, it is a poetry which goes to the very limits of statement, classical in temperament, eschewing the excesses of romanticism and the reductive gestures of post-Modern rhetoric.
