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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw
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Notes

  • Dedication: For Kristin
  • Dedication: So in the future, the sister of the past, I may see myself as I sit here now but by reflection from that which I shall be. - James Joyce

Contents

* Contents derived from the Manchester,
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Carcanet , 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Vocationi"The burden I have carried through the world", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
And Terrori"When the liberal centuries -", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 11)
Gross and Violent Stimulantsi"back here, at undawn or picaninny daylight", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 12)
It Sounds Different Todayi"How far can it matter to 'god' or to", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
Sauceri"who first spotted the lack", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 15)
The Surface of Thingsi"Pleasantly rolling deodorant into an oxter", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 15)
Household Ways The Domestic Sublime, Chris Wallace-Crabbe , sequence poetry (p. 15-17)
Indoor Yachtingi"Has any mere scribbler", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 16)
Coat Hangers Galorei"Clubbable and promiscuous,", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 16)
Garlici"Adhesive, papery,", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 17)
At the Clotheslinei"What I'd thought a fallen shirt", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 17)
Its Private Idiomi"A room lies open", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 18)
The Alignmentsi"A dot", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 19-21)
Ending With a Prepositioni"The news could be hardly new while it becomes", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 22)
Theogonyi"All jokes", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 23)
From the Island, Bundanoni"Eight stones lie on my trestle desk,", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 24-26)
Mitsubishi Momentsi"At peak of summer", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 27)
Daphne Fitzroyi"A crunch of bearcoloured hair;", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 28)
Delivering Tacti"At your front gate", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 29)
Along the Boughi"it is the kind of heat-furred epilogue of wistfulness", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 30)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Thinking and Poetry Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , September vol. 1 no. 1 2011;
Untitled Petra White , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 225-233)

— Review of The Other Way Out Bronwyn Lea , 2008 selected work poetry ; Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2008 selected work poetry ; Better Than God Peter Porter , 2009 selected work poetry
Untitled John Rees-Osborne , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , April vol. 4 no. 3 2009; (p. 27)
On the use of the word 'oxter' by Chris Wallace-Crabbe.
Up in Armpits Bill Anderson , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , April vol. 4 no. 3 2009; (p. 27)
On the use of the word 'oxter' by Chris Wallace-Crabbe.
Untitled Ken Moore , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , March vol. 4 no. 2 2009; (p. 26)
Ken Moore wishes that Chris Wallace-Crabbe 'did not use that word, oxter'. Moore doubts that the use of such words 'does anything to reinvigorate poetry with a mass readership'.
Radiant Twilight Ronald A. Sharp , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , December vol. 3 no. 11 2008; (p. 24)

— Review of Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2008 selected work poetry
'On the Side of Life' Gregory Kratzmann , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 307 2008; (p. 62)

— Review of Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2008 selected work poetry
Poetic Intimacies to Be Shared Geoffrey Lehmann , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 December 2008; (p. 8-9)

— Review of The Other Way Out Bronwyn Lea , 2007 single work poetry ; Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2008 selected work poetry ; Growing Up With Mr Menzies John Jenkins , 2008 selected work poetry ; Young Rain Kevin Hart , 2008 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poetry 2008 2008 anthology poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2008 2008 anthology poetry
At One with a World Worth Relishing Gig Ryan , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 24 January 2009; (p. 25)

— Review of Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2008 selected work poetry
A Virtuoso's Playful, Philosophical and Poignant Verse Geoff Page , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 February 2009; (p. 18)

— Review of Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2008 selected work poetry
The Flair of a Conjuror 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 305 2008; (p. 1)
A column canvassing current literary news including brief reports on the publication of Chris Wallace-Crabbe's Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw and the announcement in September 2008 of Melbourne as a UNESCO City of Literature.
A Time to Rejoice Simon Caterson , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 1 November 2008; (p. 27)
Untitled Ken Moore , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , March vol. 4 no. 2 2009; (p. 26)
Ken Moore wishes that Chris Wallace-Crabbe 'did not use that word, oxter'. Moore doubts that the use of such words 'does anything to reinvigorate poetry with a mass readership'.
Up in Armpits Bill Anderson , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , April vol. 4 no. 3 2009; (p. 27)
On the use of the word 'oxter' by Chris Wallace-Crabbe.
Untitled John Rees-Osborne , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , April vol. 4 no. 3 2009; (p. 27)
On the use of the word 'oxter' by Chris Wallace-Crabbe.
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