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 a not-quite-definable zero that gives surprising edge to life
and language round it. Direct, meditative, playful, hyper-alert, Philip
Gross's distinctively wide range of tones work together in a subtle,
searching new collection that addresses both the mind and heart. These
poems explore the spaces that can open between buildings in a city
street, in the shifting lights of love and ageing, or in the gaps
between words. Heady and sobering, unsettling, celebratory, they come
home with findings from the real world of the senses, heart and mind.