Publisher's Synopsis
In Rungs of Time, Chris Wallace-Crabbe's fourth collection of poems, the clutter of living both enchants and perplexes the poet. A list-poem of some hundred 'things' that 'are in the saddle and ride mankind' contrasts with poems of philosophical introspection, or with those that celebrate his home country, Australia.
The book has a 'combination of seriousness and decorative hedonism' unique to this cosmopolitan poet, whose style, line by line, is alive to the delicate balance to be preserved between joy and loss, beauty and horror, frail mortality and high spirits.
