Later - Softcover

Gross, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185224979X ISBN 13: 9781852249793

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, 2013

Synopsis

With an instinct for form that both controls and releases depths of feeling, Philip Gross writes poetry that proves it can be trusted with the most raw yet essential things of life.

About this title

About the Author

Philip Gross is Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University. His latest collection is Later, due from Bloodaxe in September 2013. He has published seven other books with Bloodaxe, including Deep Field (2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, which was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year); The Water Table (2009), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize; The Egg of Zero (2006); Mappa Mundi (2003), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; 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. His book I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon Press, 2009), a collaborative work with photographer Simon Denison, won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2010. He is also the author of ten highly-praised novels for young people.His poetry for children includes Manifold Manor, The All-Nite Cafe (winner of the Signal Award 1994), Scratch City and Off Road To Everywhere (winner of the CLPE Award 2011). Since The Song of Gail and Fludd (1991) he has published nine more novels for young people, most recently The Storm Garden (2006).Born in Cornwall, he lived in Bristol and Bath for many years, and now lives in Penarth in South Wales.

Review

'A powerful and tender successor to the T.S. Eliot prize-winning The Water Table - The writing is sinewy, urgent and resourceful. This poet is a master of form, deploying his visual and aural patterns for emphasis, as if the page were a musical score - The collection evokes an essence of what it is to be human, the sense of both wonder and estrangement, our place within science, the sheer oddness of who we are. Deep Field is as strong in celebration as in lamentation. With language as its theme, it soars linguistically' - Michael Symmons Roberts & Moniza Alvi, PBS Bulletin, on Deep Field.'This book speaks directly to the heart of Lapidus concerns with how language can convey, transcend and re-enchant human experience. Philip Gross has not only honoured his father but created something of great beauty and wonder out from those final wordless years' - Victoria Field, Lapidus Journal.'Philip Gross's previous collection, the T.S. Eliot Prize winning The Water Table, suggested a deepening vision based on focused contemplation of the world and our place - or lack of place - within it. This new collection takes us deeper still, sustaining with extra ordinary virtuosity a series of meditative variations on the related themes of language and wordlessness, human existence and the loss of identity' - Jem Poster, Planet.'Philip Gross knows how to make silence and suggestion resonate - he touches an alien, intractable dimension - Gross's poems are about lost bearings and blurred frontiers' - Terry Eagleton, Independent on Sunday.'Some of the poems are marvellous, not because they are brave about their subject, not even because of the technique on display, but because they are electrifyingly well observed and beautifully written' - David Morley, Poetry Review.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 185224979X
• ISBN 13: 9781852249793
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 80