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Philip Hammial

In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter’s Children by Philip Hammial & Home Town Burial by Martin R. Johnson

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May 2004, no. 261
Oliver Dennis reviews ‘In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter’s Children’ by Philip Hammial ‘Home Town Burial’ by Martin R. Johnson and ‘Loneliness’ by Maurice Strandgard

Here are three volumes that offer differing responses to a world characterised by injustice, brutality and personal hardship. Far and away the most distinctive (and demanding) of these is Philip Hammial’s sixteenth collection, In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter’s Children.

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