Blood and Bone is a collection of poems by Australian poet Philip Hodgins, published by Angus and Robertson in Australia in 1986.
The collection contains 53 poems from a variety of sources.
The collection won the 1987 NSW Premier's Literary Award – Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.
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Critical reception
Judith Rodriguez, in The Sydney Morning Herald, thought the poems in this collection were "of a high order". She notes the author's terminal illness and finds that "The process of concentration...is explicitly the subject of many poems in the book."
In The Age Monthly Review Paul Carter finds "These poems 'written dumb with fear' are meant to bring readers back to speech, back to a language which retains its power to speak. Hodgins is not looking, like Canetti, for 'a word to rehabilitate and justify all words for him.' He can find no solace in the world's distant descent from God. Yet he clings to language's powers of self-recovery."
Awards
1987 NSW Premier's Literary Award – Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, winner
