Congratulations to Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Meanjin patron and winner of the Melbourne Prize for literature 2015. This is an edited version of a talk he gave at his eightieth-birthday celebration in 2014. First published in Meanjin Volume 73, Issue 4.

Being a financial idiot, I write poetry. Hence my heartfelt haiku:

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