Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Chris Wallace-Crabbe was born on 6 May 1934 in Richmond, in the suburbs of Melbourne. After early stints at the Mint, in aviation and in journalism, he studied at the University of Melbourne, taught at Haileybury College, then in 1961 became the university's Lockie Fellow in Australian literature. A Harkness Fellow at Yale from 1965 to 1967, he spent his whole career in Melbourne, where he obtained a chair in 1988 and founded the Australian Centre. He published more than twenty-five collections and died on 16 December 2025.

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• PoetryThe Music of DivisionChris Wallace-Crabbe · 1959Literature