From its opening page - a refugee's first sight of England - Changes of
Address 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. It brings
together for the first time the whole range of Philip Gross's poetry
from the 1980s and 90s - a generous selection from his Bloodaxe, Faber
and Peterloo collections along with uncollected poems and work from
limited editions and collaborations. Changes of Address shows his
development from the prize-winning Ice Factory to the
Whitbread-shortlisted Wasting Game, but takes the reader also into
previously unknown reaches of Philip Gross territory. It does not cover
his later work.
He won the T.S. Eliot Prize for his 2009 collection The Water Table.
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.