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Issue Details: First known date: 1959... 1959 The Music of Division
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Notes

  • Dedication: To Graeme Kemelfield
  • Epigraph: 'Perhaps I have to emphasize for you / First, that it scans, and second, that it's true.' -- John Manifold.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1959 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Citizeni"The roofs of cars were crusted thick with frost", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 25)
Official Receptioni"The train curbs its excitement and he comes,", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 32)
The Kelly Paintings (after Sidney Nolan)i"Asserted with a vigorous clear brush", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 47-48)
Monologue Among Colonial Housesi"The day contracts and shivers;", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 56-58)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

"The Water Changing under Keel" : Chris Wallace-Crabbe and the Transformation of Style Judith Bishop , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 34 no. 1 2020; (p. 7-21)

'In The Breaking of Style, Helen Vendler observes that "in lyric writing, style in its largest sense is best understood as a material body." The body of style resists reshaping, and though the breaking may seem, at last, as fluid as water, many poems may be needed to prepare the transformation. This essay explores the emergence of an original voice through the first four collections by the distinguished Australian poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe. It tracks the agonistic forces of two distinct styles, present from the beginning of Wallace-Crabbe's oeuvre, demonstrating how these stylistic sources led through gradual transformation to the poet's mature voice.'  (Publication abstract)

A Poet Among the Painters Patrick McCaughey , 2014 single work biography
— Appears in: Travelling Without Gods : A Chris Wallace-Crabbe Companion 2014; (p. 47-58)
A Modest Radiance : The Poetry of Chris Wallace-Crabbe Adrian Colman , 1969 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , April no. 1 1969; (p. 45-51)
Two Poets A. A. Phillips , 1961 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 21 no. 3 1961; (p. 52-53)

— Review of The Music of Division Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1959 selected work poetry ; The Earthbound and Other Poems Charles Higham , 1959 selected work poetry
Music and Parnassus Noel Macainsh , 1960 single work review
— Appears in: Prospect , vol. 3 no. 1 1960; (p. 26-27)

— Review of The Earthbound and Other Poems Charles Higham , 1959 selected work poetry ; The Music of Division Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1959 selected work poetry
Higham : Wallace-Crabbe Robert Gordon Hay , 1960 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Letters , March vol. 2 no. 4 1960; (p. 17-19)

— Review of The Music of Division Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1959 selected work poetry ; The Earthbound and Other Poems Charles Higham , 1959 selected work poetry
Music of Division 1960 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 9 March vol. 81 no. 4178 1960; (p. 58-59)

— Review of The Music of Division Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1959 selected work poetry
The Younger and the Older Peter Jeffery , 1960 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , no. 1 1960; (p. 34-35)

— Review of The Music of Division Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1959 selected work poetry ; The Earthbound and Other Poems Charles Higham , 1959 selected work poetry
Two Poets Vivian Smith , 1960 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 17 1960; (p. 43)

— Review of The Music of Division Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1959 selected work poetry ; The Earthbound and Other Poems Charles Higham , 1959 selected work poetry
[Review] The Music of Division [et al] James McAuley , 1960 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , Autumn vol. 4 no. 2 1960; (p. 90-92)

— Review of The Music of Division Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1959 selected work poetry ; The Earthbound and Other Poems Charles Higham , 1959 selected work poetry ; The Wind at Your Door Robert D. FitzGerald , 1958 single work poetry
A Modest Radiance : The Poetry of Chris Wallace-Crabbe Adrian Colman , 1969 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , April no. 1 1969; (p. 45-51)
A Poet Among the Painters Patrick McCaughey , 2014 single work biography
— Appears in: Travelling Without Gods : A Chris Wallace-Crabbe Companion 2014; (p. 47-58)
"The Water Changing under Keel" : Chris Wallace-Crabbe and the Transformation of Style Judith Bishop , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 34 no. 1 2020; (p. 7-21)

'In The Breaking of Style, Helen Vendler observes that "in lyric writing, style in its largest sense is best understood as a material body." The body of style resists reshaping, and though the breaking may seem, at last, as fluid as water, many poems may be needed to prepare the transformation. This essay explores the emergence of an original voice through the first four collections by the distinguished Australian poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe. It tracks the agonistic forces of two distinct styles, present from the beginning of Wallace-Crabbe's oeuvre, demonstrating how these stylistic sources led through gradual transformation to the poet's mature voice.'  (Publication abstract)

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