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Quote of the Day
Congratulations to Carcanet for paying equal attention to new poets and to modern classics. The Collected H.D., Mina Loy, William Carlos Williams, and Yvor Winters are all essential books, and Carcanet is doing a public service keeping them in print.
Thom Gunn
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News
Chris Wallace-Crabbe shortlisted for prestigious Australian prize
Friday, 20 Mar 2009
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Carcanet poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe is on the shortlist for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal award for a work of outstanding literature published during 2008. He has been recognised for his collection Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw, published by Carcanet in August 2008. The winner will be announced at the July Association for the Study of Australian Literature conference at the Australain National University. The shortlist for the award is as follows:
Clanchy, John: Her Father's Daughter (UQP), Garner, Helen: The Spare Room (Text), Juers, Evelyn: House of Exile (Giramondo), Kinsella, John: Divine Comedy: Journeys through a regional geography (UQP), Tsiolkas, Christos: The Slap (Allen & Unwin), Wallace-Crabbe, Chris: Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw (Carcanet).
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Click here to read more about Chris Wallace-Crabbe's shortlisted collection, Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw.
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