Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009.
A powerful and ambiguous body of water lies at the heart of these poems,
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 Mor
Hafren, the Severn Sea. Philip Gross' meditations move with subtle steps
between these shifting grounds and those of the man-made world, the
aging body and that ever-present mystery, the self. Admirers of his work
know each new collection is a new stage; this one marks a crossing into
a new questioning, new clarity and depth.