children birth_place birth_date known_for spouse article_title name occupation
one child detroit , michigan 10 january 1937 poetry and art anne welch philip hammial
 philip hammial poet curator , publisher , editor , artist , art
philip hammial

philip roby hammial -lrb- born 1937 -rrb- 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-four collections of poetry , thirty solo sculpture exhibitions , and acting as the director/curator of the australian collection of outsider art , twenty-six exhibitions of australian outsider art in five countries .
hammial 's significance to australian poetry has been recognised by the australia council , which awarded him a senior writer 's fellowship in 1996 , an established writer 's fellowship in 2004 and the nancy keesing studio at the cité internationale des arts in paris in 2009 .
