Phillip Hall Phillip Hall i(A20769 works by) (a.k.a. Phillip Gijindarraji Hall; Skin Name: Jabala)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal Gudanji ; Aboriginal
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1 The Climate at Wentworth Falls Phillip Hall , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry for the Planet : An Anthology of Imagined Futures 2021;
1 The Kafkaesque i "From his sanatorium, amidst the medical staff’s feeble", Phillip Hall , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , April 2021-2022;
1 We Are i "…troweling through that God Almighty squabble", Phillip Hall , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , May 2021;
1 Elgin’s Marbles i "We hear him", Phillip Hall , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , May 2021;
1 y separately published work icon Cactus Phillip Hall , Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2021 20909379 2021 selected work poetry

'Throughout his forties and fifties Phillip Hall found himself in difficult circumstances: the grief for his baby son and younger brothers, suicide attempts, self-harming, the premature termination of his career, and the failure of religious belief to explain or console. In and out of psychiatric care, he has been treated for PTSD, severe depression and social anxiety. There are, of course, consolations: family, companion greyhounds, Sunshine, the Western Bulldogs and the AFL (M and W), books, the fine and performing arts. But, for Phillip, this remains a time of loss and despair. This is, therefore, a collection of lamentations, achingly focused on what it is to live with poor mental health, but it is also a defiant celebration of survival and the redeeming power of familial love, sport and the arts.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 Phillip Hall Reviews Moya Pacey’s ‘Doggerland’ Phillip Hall , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Blue Nib [Online] , December 2020;

— Review of Doggerland Moya Pacey , 2020 selected work poetry
1 Phillip Hall Reviews Under This Saffron Sun by Robyn Rowland Phillip Hall , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;

— Review of Under This Saffron Sun /Safran Güneşin Altında Robyn Rowland , Mehmet Ali Celikel (translator), 2019 selected work poetry
1 Phillip Hall Reviews Navigable Ink by Jennifer Mackenzie Phillip Hall , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;

— Review of Navigable Ink Jennifer Mackenzie , 2020 selected work poetry
1 Phillip Hall Reviews Heide by Π0 Phillip Hall , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;

— Review of Heide TT. O , 2019 selected work poetry
1 Phillip Hall Reviews Brief Garden by Margaret Bradstock Phillip Hall , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;

— Review of Brief Garden Margaret Bradstock , 2019 selected work poetry
1 Phillip Hall Reviews Summer Haiku by Owen Bullock and Breathing in Stormy Seasons by Stephanie Green Phillip Hall , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , March 2020;

— Review of Summer Haiku Owen Bullock , 2019 selected work poetry ; Breathing in the Stormy Seasons Stephanie Green , 2019 selected work poetry
1 Spring Symphony i "Our places booked", Phillip Hall , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Blue Nib [Online] , November 2020;
1 The Passion of Cards i "Pulling into Flinders Street Station I’m on guard", Phillip Hall , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Blue Nib [Online] , November 2020;
1 Blood Lust i "why do I need blood", Phillip Hall , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Blue Nib [Online] , November 2020;
1 Bacchus In Ruins i "The Luftwaffe exposed", Phillip Hall , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Blue Nib [Online] , November 2020;
1 The Moment of Death i "is as significant as taking a dump, there are no", Phillip Hall , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Blue Nib [Online] , November 2020;
1 The Allure Phillip Hall , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: The Blue Nib [Online] , November 2020;
1 A Review of Dennis Haskell’s ‘Ahead of Us’ Phillip Hall , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2019 2019;

— Review of Ahead of Us Dennis Haskell , 2016 selected work poetry
1 Phillip Hall Reviews Tracker by Alexis Wright Phillip Hall , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2019;

— Review of Tracker Alexis Wright , 2017 single work biography
1 Phillip Hall Reviews Robert Harris’s The Gang of One : Selected Poems Phillip Hall , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 August no. 92 2019;

— Review of The Gang of One : Selected Poems of Robert Harris Robert Harris , 2019 selected work poetry

'In ‘The Day’, Harris writes a stunning eschatology for Gough Whitlam. For Harris the dismissal was ‘the day of deceit’, ‘the day to lose heart’. As I write this review, I too am demoralized and anxious, despite the beta-blockers. In the crisis of another general election, the causes of a progressive and civil society have again been defeated. And in our election wash-up, the ALP seeks a new leader. Tanya Plibersek, our Kiwi-model hope, has already withdrawn her candidacy for the top job, citing family reasons (this does not appear to be an obstacle for her male colleagues). In this society, is any male (really) a ‘gang of one’? And while I hear the self-referential humor implied in the title, I also find myself butting up against its hyperbole: the allusion to romantic nonsense of one-off, singular (almost always male) creative genius. Will Connie Barber, Barbara Fisher and Grace Perry (amongst so many others) also be recognized/celebrated with the Selected/Collected milestone?' (Introduction)

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