Philip Ian Hodgins

Background

Philip Hodgins was born on January 28, 1959 in Shepparton, Victoria, and spent his childhood on his parents' dairy farm at nearby Katandra W.

Education

Philip went to school in Geelong and later moved to Melbourne.

Career

Philip moved to Melbourne where he worked for several years with a publishing house, before moving to Maryborough in central Victoria.

Hodgins' experience of farm life is strongly present through much of his poetry. His verse novella Dispossessed describes the last weeks of a poor rural family about to be evicted from their farm. Hodgins also wrote about Australian Rules football. Hodgins was a co-founder of the Mildura Writers' Festival.

Achievements

• Philip is famous for his works Blood and Bone, Lake with Half a Chook, Animal Warmth, and The End of the Season.

Works

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  • Blood and Bone 1986
  • Down the lake with half a chook 1988
  • Things Happen 1995
  • Dispossessed 1994
  • Up on All Fours 1993
  • Selected Poems 1997

Connections

In 1990, Hodgins married the writer Janet Shaw, with whom he had two children, Anna and Helen.

Wife:

Janet Shaw

Daughter:

Anna

Daughter:

Helen