The Thirteenth Angel
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78037-635-6 (ISBN)
With each new collection, Philip Gross’ poems extend their conversation between the metaphysical and the acutely physical. His sequences in The Thirteenth Angel scan from moment to moment like flickering needles, registering stress patterns in the world around us – ebbs and flows of weather or events, in our own bodies, in the city streets before and after the pandemic, or on the autoroutes of Europe with their undertow of human flight. If there are angels, they are nothing otherworldly, but formed by angles of incidence between real immediate things, sudden moments of clarity that may disturb, calm or exhilarate. The Thirteenth Angel is Philip Gross’s 27th book of poetry, and his 12th from Bloodaxe, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022.
Born in Cornwall, son of an Estonian wartime refugee, Philip Gross has lived in Plymouth, Bristol and South Wales, where he was Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University (USW). Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize his 27th collection, The Thirteenth Angel (2022), follows eleven previous books with Bloodaxe, including Between 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; and Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998 (2001), his selection from earlier books including The Ice Factory, Cat’s Whisker, The Son of the Duke of Nowhere, I.D. and The Wasting Game. Since The Air Mines of Mistila (with Sylvia Kantaris, Bloodaxe Books, 2020), he has been a keen collaborator, most recently with artist Valerie Coffin Price on A Fold in the River (2015) and with poet Lesley Saunders on A Part of the Main (2018). 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 includes Manifold Manor, The All-Nite Café (winner of the Signal Award 1994), Off Road to Everywhere (winner of the CLPE Award 2011) and the poetry-science collection Dark Sky Park.
11 Nocturne: The Information
22 Porcelain
24 The Follies
25 Smatter
38 A Q’ran of Ruzbihan
39 Black Glass Sonata
42 Scenes from the Lives of Stone Angels
44 Disintegration Loops
46 Moon, O
47 Sky Space
49 The Mishnah of the Moment
51 Psalm: You
52 Paul Klee: the Later Angels
55 Ash Plaint in the Key of O
57 Transient
58 A Near Distance
59 The Named Storm
60 Developing the Negatives
63 A Shadow on the House
65 Crack and Warp
69 If Today…
70 Springtime in Pandemia
77 Descants on Dante
81 Thirteen Angels
92 Silence Like Rain
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Tyne and Wear |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78037-635-9 / 1780376359 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78037-635-6 / 9781780376356 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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