Philip Gross

Chepstow

Philip Gross reading with Gwyneth Lewis. On The Border begins its Autumn Season with two poets at the height of their powers. Both have published important books this year. Gwyneth Lewis, first National Poet of Wales, produced an imaginative tour de force in her Hospital Odyssey. Meanwhile, Philip Gross was winning both the T.S Eliot prize with The Water Table and the Wales Book of the Year award with I Spy Pinhole Eye, which featured the photographs of pylons by Simon Denison. Two great poets, one grounding feeling in a tapestry of fable, the other summoning magic from muddy water and metal, one from Wales living elswhere, the other from elsewhere living in Wales, each in their own way restlessly inventive, each one constantly breaking new ground.

St Donats Castle

Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Philip Gross reading with the Estonian contemporary music ensemble Resonabilis and Siân Cameron (mezzo-soprano). Eclectic ensemble Resonabilis play new music centred on an ancient instrument, the Estonian kannel, a sort of chromatic table-harp. The musical programme includes works by Russian and Estonian composers. The music will be interwoven with readings by leading poet Philip Gross, and during the extended interval, a supper including traditional Estonian cuisine will be served in the spectacular setting of the Glass Room, with its panoramic sea views.

Bristol

Reading from The Water Table, alongside Littoral exhibition of contemporary print and other works by: Anna Harley, Bes Frimodig, Martine Baldwin, Liz Bird, Amanda Hazell

Grasmere

Reading for the Wordsworth Trust, with Miriam Gamble: one of our most distinctive younger writers, her poetry is notable for its imaginings of both the animal and human worlds. Her poems breathe new rhythms into traditional forms, such as sestinas and villanelles. Her reading at the Wordsworth Trust marks the publication of her first full-length collection, The Squirrels Are Dead.

Penarth

Book signing and reading for children and adults together from his new collection Off Road To Everywhere, poems grown from years of workshops with young people, offering a range of join-in writing games.

Newnham on Severn

Philip reading alongside Tidal Severn: measure of time, season, ecology, an exhibition of mixed media works by Gloucestershire based artists Suze Adams, Carolyn Black, Andrew Darke, Alice Jolly, Richard Keating and Kel Portman. This exhibition has been timed to coincide with the autumn 4 star Severn bores. The gallery is a short walk from the river edge.

Torquay

Torbay Festival: Philip Gross reading with Sahnita Acharya and Martyn Crucefix. SHANTA ACHARYA was born in Orissa, India. Her work crosses traditions of both India and the West using the best traditions of each. She has had five books of poetry published, both in the UK and in India. MARTYN CRUCEFIX works as poet, teacher, reviewer, critic, translator and competition judge. He is a tutor with the Poetry School in London. His recent translation of the Duino Elegies by Rilke was widely praised..