The Water Table

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.

ISBN	1852248521	Pages	64
ISBN13	9781852248529 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	113
Publisher	Bloodaxe Books Ltd	Published in	Tyne and Wear
Imprint	Bloodaxe Books Ltd	Height (mm)	216
Format	Paperback	Width (mm)	138
Publication date	10 Nov 2009	Spine width (mm)	5
DEWEY	821.914	Academic level	General
DEWEY edition	DC22

		Sluice Angel		9
		Betweenland I		10
		Betweenland II		11
		White Sheet		12
		Atlantis World		14
		Designs for the Water Garden		16
		Almost Alabaster		18
		Fantasia on a Theme from IKEA		19
		Betweenland III		22
		Coming To		23
		Stilt City		25
		Ware		26
		Betweenland IV		27
		Boffins		28
		Amphora		29
		Pour		30
		The Presence		31
		Globe		32
		Betweenland V		33
		Concentrations		34
		Bridge Passages		37
		Betweenland VI		39
		The Moveable Island		40
		Betweenland VII		42
		Hereinunder		43
		Betweenland VIII		44
		Bread and Salt		45
		Yalta, 1945		46
		The Grounds		47
		To Build A Bridge		49
		Betweenland IX		50
		First Things		51
		Elderly Iceberg off the Esplanade		52
		Meander		53
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'A book of great clarity and concentration, continually themed but always lively and alert in its use of language. Gross takes us from Great Flood to subtly invoked concerns for our watery planet; this is a mature and determined book, dream-like in places, but dealing ultimately with real questions of human existence' - Simon Armitage, T.S. Eliot Prize judges' comment.

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