Dispossessed
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Australian Poetry
Dispossessed by Philip Hodgins
by Mark O'Flynn •
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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