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The zero at the heart of these poems is not nothing - not simply absence, forgetting or loss, though there are moving elegies among them.
This is the not-quite-definable O that gives surprising edge to life and language round it. By turns meditative, subtle, searching, playful and direct, this is poetry to engage the heart and mind.
Published by Bloodaxe, March 2006 ISBN 1-85224-726-6 paperback £7.95
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A Poetry Book Society Recommendation
"Nature, people, the obscurities of one's self, yield up their otherness in those epiphanic moments when Gross' peripheral eyesight catches them off guard.
His is a voice that is mordant, obsessive, compelling - but nonetheless
grateful for the rewards of living..."
Poetry Book Society Bulletin
To read an extract from the title poem, see the poems page
The medieval Mappa Mundi showed the real world hedged about with wonders.
These new poems are as vividly observed and sometimes fabulous as travellers' tales of antiquity.
Like those creatures in the margins of old maps they are hybrids of real longings, truth and lies.
Published by Bloodaxe, Newcastle 2003 ISBN 1-85224-622-7 paperback £7.95
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation
"...he should be recognized as one of England's very best poets, not only for the exuberance of his imagination, but because of what he is writing about.
An urban poet, who knows the rural mythologies and lost Romantic instincts, he has fixed many transient details of modern life for his readers;
but he also speaks, often playfully, and always with a consummate formal
control, of a sense of nothingness...'
Times Literary Supplement
From its opening page - a refugee's first sight of England - this book presents a journey through our times, a search for the meaning of 'home'.
With its humour and deep honesty, its vivid storytelling, its sense of history and brilliant observations of the here-and-now, this book of poems is as rich and multi-layered as a novel.
Published by Bloodaxe, Newcastle 2001 ISBN 1-85224-572-7 paperback £9.95
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The following books are out of print, although many of their poems appear
in CHANGES OF ADDRESS.
If you would like to purchase copies direct from the
author, please email for prices and availablility.
a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize
"Throughout this vigilant and human collection, Gross engages us in the drama
of his poetry's self-aware twists and turns, as it explores unsimple feelings
of loss, apprehension and love."
Times Literary Supplement
"These are elegies for the living, piercing in their clarity and depth
of feeling."
Helen Dunmore
Includes the much anthologised and broadcast title sequence about anorexia, as well as sequences about Estonia and life and love.
Philip talks about The Wasting Game in an interview for the Poetry Society. Follow this link to download a pdf of the interview: Poetry Society
Published by Bloodaxe 1998 ISBN 1-85224-479-8 paperback £6.95
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"...a contemporary response to the power of two famous ancient circles.
John Eaves' brooding pictures of Stonehenge draw poet Philip Gross into a game of shadows, at once playful and perceptive.
A medieval tragedy is the narrative thread for Gross' exploration of Avebury,
treading a line between past and present, fact and fiction, irony and celebration,
loss and love: a sensual vision mirrored in F.J.Kennedy's lively
paintings..."
Mike Pitts, author of 'Hengeworld'
Beautifully illustrated, this book is a collaboration with two fine and very different artists,
Questions and suggestions weave round the mysteries of Avebury and Stonehenge.
Follow this link for an interview with Philip about archeology and A Cast of Stones British Archeologist
Published by Digging Deeper Press, Avebury 1996 ISBN 0-9514076-4-3 £11.99
a Poetry Book Society Choice
A whirlwind collaboration with poet Sylvia Kantaris produced this haunting and surreal verse fable.
It is full of wry lights on the real world and real relationships.
With illustrations by Kim Lewis.
Published by Bloodaxe, Newcastle 1988 ISBN 1-85224-055-5 paperback £4.95
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London: Faber and Faber Ltd 1994
ISBN 0 571 17235 0 paperback
Faber and Faber Ltd 1991
ISBN 0 571 16140 5 paperback £4.99
London: Faber and Faber Ltd 1987
ISBN 0 571 14895 6 paperback £4.95
London: Faber and Faber Ltd 1984
ISBN 0 571 13217 0 paperback
Liskeard: Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets, 1983
ISBN 0 905291 46 8 paperback
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with pochoir illustrations by Vance Gerry
Publication details:
Prospero Poets 1995
Limited edition of 499 copies
Poems specially written for this fine limited edition,
with wood engravings
by Ros Cuthbert
Publication Details:
Yellow Fox Press 1995
ISBN 0 9524734 2 9
Limited edition of 120 copies
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short story. Producer: Christine Hall
broadcast on BBC Radio 4; 9 June 2005
a radio-poem/documentary. Producer: Tim Dee
broadcast on BBC Radio 3; 21 February 2002
short story. Producer: Sara Davies
broadcast on BBC Radio 4; 19 September 2002
short story. Producer: Sara Davies
broadcast on BBC Radio 4; 5 June 1993
won the BBC West of England Playwriting Competition, 1986
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Play, performed by Show of Strength, Bristol 1996
Opera - with composer Glyn Evans and the Britten Sinfonietta (Cambridge 1997)
Dance drama with dancer Medea Mahdavi (Bristol 2002)
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