- Philip Hodgins
Philip Ian Hodgins (
28 January 1959 –18 August 1995 ) is anAustralia npoet .cite web |title = Hodgins, Philip |publisher = Austlit Agent |url= http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A$01 Hodgins, Philip |accessdate= 2007-08-05]Philip Hodgins was born in
Shepparton, Victoria in 1959 and spent his childhood on his parent's dairy farm at nearbyKatandra West . He went to school inGeelong and later moved toMelbourne where he worked for several years with a publishing house and before moving to live in Maryborough in central Victoria.Hodgkins' experience of farm life is strongly present through much of his poetry. His verse novella "Dispossessed" describe the last weeks of a poor rural family about to be evicted from their farm. Hodgins also wrote about
Australian Rules football .In November 1983 Hodgins was admitted to hospital and diagnosed as having chronic myeloid leukaemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. His experiences as a leukaemia patient forms the subject of much of his later work.
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