The Water Table

by Philip Gross

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852248521
• ISBN13: 9781852248529
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.3"