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Born in Cornwall, son of an Estonian wartime refugee,Philip Grosshas lived in Plymouth, Bristol and South Wales, where he was Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University (USW). His 27th collection,The Thirteenth Angel(2022), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and is shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022. It follows eleven previous books with Bloodaxe, includingBetween the Islands(2020),A Bright Acoustic(2017),Love Songs of Carbon(2015), winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation;Deep Field(2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation;The Water Table(2009), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009; andChanges of Address: Poems 1980-1998(2001), his selection from earlier books includingThe Ice Factory, Cat's Whisker, The Son of the Duke of Nowhere, I.D.andThe Wasting Game. SinceThe Air Mines of Mistila(with Sylvia Kantaris, Bloodaxe Books, 1988), he has been a keen collaborator, most recently with artist Valerie Coffin Price onA Fold in the River(2015), with poet Lesley Saunders onA Part of the Main(2018), and with Welsh-languagebarddCyril Jones onTroeon/Turnings(2021).I Spy Pinhole Eye(Cinnamon Press, 2009), with photographer Simon Denison, won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2010. He received a Cholmondeley Award in 2017. Philip Gross's poetry for young people includesManifold Manor, The All-Nite Caf(winner of the Signal Award 1994),Off Road to Everywhere(winner of the CLPE Award 2011) and the poetry-science collectionDark Sky Park(shortlisted for the CLiPPA award 2019).
'Gross does appear to have come into his own, with fresh wind in his sails... Now in his sixties... he is working at quite a throttle and with a full-throated clarity that sounds, suddenly, like no one else around' - Conor O'Callaghan, Poetry London.; 'Later is a magnificent extended elegy, formally adventurous, poised between narrative and metaphysics, themes and variation' - Carol Rumens, Poetry Review.; 'This is a collection which consistently grips, involves and challenges; it confirms Philip Gross as one of our most consistently interesting and skilful poets' - Tony Brown, New Welsh Review.; '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 absolute poise of the lines carve a way through the knotted difficulty of the raw material' - Michael Symmons Roberts & Moniza Alvi, PBS Bulletin, on Deep Field.
