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A powerful and ambiguous body of water lies at the heart of these poems, with shoals and channels that change with the forty-foot tide. Philip Gross's meditations move with subtle steps between these shifting grounds and those of the man-made world, the ageing body, and that ever-present mystery, the self. Admirers of his work know each new collection is a new stage; this one marks a crossing new clarity and depth.
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Born in Cornwall, son of an Estonian wartime refugee, Philip Gross has lived in Plymouth, Bristol and South Wales, where he was Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University (USW). His 27th collection,
The Thirteenth Angel (2022), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and is shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022. It follows eleven previous books with Bloodaxe, including
Between the Islands (2020),
A Bright Acoustic (2017),
Love Songs of Carbon (2015), winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation;
Deep Field (2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation;
The Water Table (2009), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009; and
Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998 (2001), his selection from earlier books including
The Ice Factory, Cat's Whisker, The Son of the Duke of Nowhere, I.D. and
The Wasting Game. Since
The Air Mines of Mistila (with Sylvia Kantaris, Bloodaxe Books, 1988), he has been a keen collaborator, most recently with artist Valerie Coffin Price on
A Fold in the River (2015), with poet Lesley Saunders on
A Part of the Main (2018), and with Welsh-language
bardd Cyril Jones on
Troeon/Turnings (2021).
I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon Press, 2009), with photographer Simon Denison, won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2010. He received a Cholmondeley Award in 2017. Philip Gross's poetry for young people includes
Manifold Manor, The All-Nite Café (winner of the Signal Award 1994),
Off Road to Everywhere (winner of the CLPE Award 2011) and the poetry-science collection
Dark Sky Park (shortlisted for the CLiPPA award 2019).
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Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009. A powerful and ambiguous body of water lies at the heart of these poems, with shoals and channels that change with the forty-foot tide. Even the name is fluid – from one shore, the Bristol Channel, from the other Môr Hafren, the Severn Sea.
