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Clubbing The Gunfire
''Clubbing of the Gunfire : 101 Australian War Poems'' is a anthology of poems by Australian poets edited by Chris Wallace-Crabbe and Peter Pierce, published by Melbourne University Press in 1984. The collection contains 99 poems from 71 different poets. The poems here are grouped into four parts: Part One: Imperial Wars 1885-902 Part Two: The Great war 1914-1918 Part Three: The Second World war 1939-1945 Part Four: Asian Wars 1950-1972 Contents * A. B. Paterson ** " El Mahdi to the Australian Troops" * H. P. Ellis ** "His Letter : To the Committee, New South Wales Patriotic Fund" * Christopher Brennan ** "The Burden of Tyre : VI" * Randolph Bedford ** " The Rhyme of Rudyard K." * Henry Lawson ** " Who'll Wear the Beaten Colours?" * Breaker Morant ** "wikisource: Butchered to Make a Dutchman's Holiday, Butchered to Make a Dutchman's Holiday" * R. Stewart ** "The Sword of Genghis Khan" * Christopher Brennan ** "Irish to English : 26th April 1916" ** From : "A Chant of Doom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe (born 6 May 1934) is an Australian poet and emeritus professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Life and career Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. His father was Kenneth Eyre Inverell Wallace-Crabbe, painter, printmaker, journalist and publisher, pilot in the RAF and ending World War II as Group Captain, and his mother Phyllis Vera May Cox Passmore was a pianist, and his brother Robin Wallace-Crabbe became an artist. He was educated at Scotch College, Yale University and the University of Melbourne, where for much of his life he has worked and is now a professor emeritus in the Australian Centre. He was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University and at the University of Venice, Ca'Foscari. He is also an essayist, a critic of the visual arts and a notable public reader of his verse. He was the founding director of the Australian Centre and, more recently, chair of the peak arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |