Bøker av Philip Hodgins

It is 1988, the year of celebrations. But not everyone feels invited. During the last weeks before eviction from their land, a farming family is dispossessed more than once. Against the myth of idyllic rural life, Dispossessed gives another vision. Here is a stark account of this family losing their identity, as well as the more familiar images from the bush: the birth and death of animals, the rhythms of working the land, and the excesses of nature. In this vivid novella, written in blank verse, Philip Hodgins finds powerful metaphors for Australia's recent past.

The fourth book in the Braziller series of Australian poets. PhilipHodgins is unique in his unflinchingly honest and mordant account of countrylife in Australia. In a vivid and lucid style, his astonishing poems reveal thecomplexities, depths and urgencies of living at the edge of life and death.Renowned for his sophisticated yet understated craftsmanship, Hodgins writeswith subtlety, humor and heartbreaking intensity.