About Philip Hammial

Philip Roby Hammial (1937 – ) is an Australian poet, publisher, editor, artist and art curator. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and sculpting. His achievements include twenty collections of poetry, and thirty solo sculpture exhibitions. Hammial’s significance to Australian poetry has been recognised by the Australia Council, which awarded him a Senior Writer’s Fellowship in 1996, and an Established Writer’s Fellowship in 2004. Two of his poetry collections were short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize – Bread in 2001 and In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter’s Children in 2004. He has represented Australia at four overseas poetry festivals on four different continents.