| Admin History | Chris Wallace-Crabbe (b 1934), poet and Professor of English Literature at the University of Melbourne, was born in 1934 to a journalist and a pianist, and grew up with a family tradition of military-bohemian Scots. On leaving school he worked at such jobs as cadet metallurgist and electrical trade journalist before finding his metier as poet and as a university teacher. He lived in Exeter and taught on the Commonwealth Arts course at the University in the early seventies, and has also lived in the United States and Italy, as well as Melbourne. He has published fifteen books of poetry, plus prose works, art criticism and varied anthologies. |