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Absolutely Revolting
Australian Poetry
by Mark O'Flynn •
April 1994, no. 159

Dispossessed by Philip Hodgins

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With unsentimental compassion and irony, Dispossessed tackles the weighty topic of the rural crisis. In a sense the title of Phillip Hodgins’s verse novella gives too much away, casting a deliberate shadow over all that follows. Yet the manner in which Hodgins spins his yam is constantly engaging.

 


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Dispossessed by Philip Hodgins

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