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Chris Wallace-Crabbe is a leading Australian poet and an essayist, with a longstanding interest in the visual arts. He began as a scientist but his interest moved across to literature while he was doing National Service in the RAAF. He taught at Melbourne University for many years, and has also taught at Harvard and the University of Venice. His most recent book of poetry was "Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw" (Carcanet), and of criticism, "Read It Again" (Salt). He has won the Dublin Prize for Arts and Sciences, the Philip Hodgins Prize for Literature, and the Order of Australia. He chairs the newly established Australian Poetry Limited, and is a Professor Emeritus at Melbourne. His interest in the making of artists' books goes back fifteen years: he has been involved in a number of these, and is intrigued by what happens at the edges of a genre. Wallace-Crabbe draws, beach-walks and plays tennis, and has read his poetry all round the world.