We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?

Poet                          

Selected Works:

Poetry:

The Music of Division - 1959
Eight Metropolitan Poems, Adelaide: Australian Letters; with John Brack - 1962
In Light and Darkness - 1963
The Rebel General - 1967
Where the Wind Came - 1971
Selected Poems - 1973
The Foundations of Joy - Poets of the Month Series - 1976
The Emotions Are Not Skilled Workers - 1979
The Amorous Cannibal - 1985
I'm Deadly Serious - 1988
Sangue e l'acqua, translated and edited by Giovann Distefano, Abano Terme: Piovan Editore - 1989
For Crying Out Loud - 1990
Rungs of Time - 1993
Selected Poems 1956-1994 - 1995
Whirling - 1998
By and Large - 2001
A Representative Human - 2003
Next - 2004
The Universe Looks Down - 2005
Then - 2006
Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw - 2008

Recorded Poetry:

Vinyl Record: Chris Wallace-Crabbe Reads From His Own Verse - 1973
2000: The Poems - 2000
The Domestic Sublime - 2009

Fiction:
1981: Splinters - 1981

Literary Criticism:

Melbourne or the Bush: Essays on Australian Literature and Society - 1974
Toil and Spin: Two Directions in Modern Poetry - 1979
1983: Three Absences in Australian Writing, Townsville: Foundation for Australian Literary Studies
1990: Poetry and Belief, Hobart: University of Tasmania, 1990
1990: Falling into Language, Melbourne: Oxford University Press
2005: "Read It Again", Cambridge: Salt
Edited
1963: Six Voices: Contemporary Australian Poets - 19; American Edition, Westport, 1979
1971: Australian Poetry 1971 - 19
1980: The Golden Apples of the Sun: Twentieth Century Australian Poetry, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
1981: The Australian Nationalists: Modern Critical Essays, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, (with Peter Pierce),
1984: Clubbing of the Gunfire: 101 Australian War Poems, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1984 (with D. Goodman and D.J. Hearn)
Multicultural Australia: the Challenges of Change, Newham - with Kerry Flattley - 1991
From the Republic of Conscience, Melbourne: Aird Books in association with Amnesty International; and New York - 1992, with Kerry Flattley and Sigurdur A. Magnusson
1994: Ur Riki Samviskunnar, Reykjavik: Amnesty International
1998: Author, Author! Tales of Australian Literary Life, Melbourne: O.U.P., 1998 (with Harold Bolitho)
1998: Associate Editor (with Bruce Bennett and Jennifer Strauss): The Oxford Literary History of Australia, Melbourne: Oxford University Press
1998: Approaching Australia: Papers from the Harvard Australian Studies Symposium, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Committee on Australian Studies
2002: La Poésie Australienne, Valenciennes: Presses Universitaires, (with Simone Kadi)
2004: "Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World", Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Committee on Australian Studies. With Judith Ryan
Artist's Books with the artist Bruno Leti
1994: "Drawing", Melbourne: Australian Print Workshop
1995: "Apprehensions", Melbourne: the artist
1996: "New Year", Melbourne and Canberra: the artist
1996: "The Iron Age", Melbourne: the artist
1999: "Timber", New York: the artist and Raphael Fodde; with Inge and Grahame King
2001: "The Alignments Two", Melbourne: the artist
2002: "Colours", Melbourne: the artist
2004: "The Alignments One", Melbourne: the artist
Other Artists' Books
2006: "All Writing Still is to be Done", Vicenza: L'Officina; with Marco Fazzini and Gianluca Murasecchi
2005: "The Flowery Meadow" (after Dante), Melbourne: Electio Editions; with Alan Loney and Bruno Leti
2007: "Skin, Surfaces and Shadows", Warrandyte: with Tommaso Durante

                          

Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.