New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 9 (1987) Winner
Philip Ian Hodgins
フィリップ・イアン・ホジンズ
Firippu Ian Hojinzu
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1959-01-28 （Shepparton, Victoria）
- Died
- 1995-08-18 （Maryborough, Victoria） age 36
- Nationality
- Australian
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Katandra West, Victoria (childhood) → Geelong, Victoria (school) → Melbourne, Victoria → Maryborough, Victoria
Career
- Occupations
- poet
- Active Years
- 1986-1995
- Affiliations
- Co-founder of Mildura Writers' Festival
- Influenced By
- Les Murray
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Wesley Michael Wright Prize for Poetry | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1987 | New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry | Blood and Bone | 詩 | Government of New South Wales | 受賞 |
| 1988 | Grace Perry Memorial Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1993 | Grace Leven Prize for Poetry | The End of the Season | 詩 | — | 受賞 |
| — | National Book Council Poetry Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| — | Prairie Schooner Readers Choice USA Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1996 | National Book Council Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
Wesley Michael Wright Prize for Poetry
1986
Result:
受賞
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
1987
Work:
Blood and Bone
Category:
詩
Organization:
Government of New South Wales
Result:
受賞
Grace Perry Memorial Award
1988
Result:
受賞
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
1993
Work:
The End of the Season
Category:
詩
Result:
受賞
National Book Council Poetry Prize
Result:
受賞
Prairie Schooner Readers Choice USA Award
Result:
受賞
National Book Council Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize
1996
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Blood and Bone
1986 PoetryHodgins's early poetry collection featuring rural life.
rural life
Dispossessed
1994 Verse novellaDescribes the last weeks of a poor rural family about to be evicted from their farm.
dispossessionrural decline
Bibliography
- Blood and Bone (1986)
- Down the Lake with Half a Chook (1988)
- Animal Warmth (1990)
- The End of the Season (1993)
- Up on All Fours (1993)
- Dispossessed (1994)
- Things Happen (1995)
- Selected Poems (1997)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Depictions of rural lifeReflections on leukaemia experience
- Recurring Motifs
- Farm lifeAustralian Rules footballBattle with illness
Health
-
chronic myeloid leukaemia1983-1995Formed the subject of much of his later work.
Legacy
One of the most loved Australian poets of his generation, acclaimed for rural poetry. Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Literary Excellence established.
Archives
- Australian Defence Force Academy Library (Canberra)
In Popular Culture
- Called 'probably the most loved [Australian] poet of his generation' by Peter Rose.
Quotes
-
'an obituary to die for'
Source: Reply to Peter Goldsworthy (1995)
Trivia
- Co-founder of the Mildura Writers' Festival.
- Married writer Janet Shaw, with whom he had two children, Anna and Helen.