Widely published across the English-speaking world, Chris Wallace-Crabbe is a passionate explorer of modern experience. In By and Large he glides between the vivid seduction of landscape and those values which a world of speed, change and loss has unsettled. Restless and wry, his exciting poetry goes to the very limits of statement.

“To read these lyrics is to encounter a major writer who, while having all of the craft of poetry in his bones and muscles, nonetheless risks everything to make his art anew.” – The Age

“…one of Wallace-Crabbe’s pleasure-giving skills is the ability to exploit the expressive power of his ‘bonzers’ and ‘bamboozle’.” – Australian Book Review