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Philip Gross’s books on Amazon

The Water Table
The Storm Garden
Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998

Philip Gross’s website

Philip Gross

Philip Gross won the T.S. Eliot Prize with his collection The Water Table (Bloodaxe Books, 2009). His poetry has always been seeped in the element of water. A powerful and ambiguous body of water lies at the heart of the poems of The Water Table, 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. Born in Cornwall, he lived in Bristol on the other side of the Bristol Channel for many years, and now lives on the Welsh side, just above the beach, at Penarth, where Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed him reading his poems in July 2009.

Pamela Robertson-Pearce has been filming poets reading their work for Bloodaxe’s archive, website and DVD-books. Her first DVD-book, In Person (edited by Neil Astley), was published by Bloodaxe in 2008, including films of 30 poets with an anthology containing all the poems read on the films.

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