This book distils an adult lifetime into the intense magic of poetry. Wallace-Crabbe is a nature poet in the broadest possible sense: his poems, ranging widely

This selection has been made by the poet himself from his eleven collections, published from 1959 in Australia, and then since 1980 by Oxford University Press,

The poems in this collection move from psychological drama to expressive landscapes, from politics to the secret eloquence of household objects. "(Wallace-Crabb