First Light: A Selection of Poems [Paperback]

The fourth book in the Braziller series of Australian poets. PhilipHodgins is unique in his unflinchingly honest and mordant account of countrylife in Australia. In a vivid and lucid style, his astonishing poems reveal thecomplexities, depths and urgencies of living at the edge of life and death.Renowned for his sophisticated yet understated craftsmanship, Hodgins writeswith subtlety, humor and heartbreaking intensity.?PhilipHodgins was the most loved poet of his generation, whose life was cuttragically short. If he had lived as long as his admired Goethe, he would probably have beenGoethe.  CliveJames.