Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998

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In , Gross was commissioned by the Poetry Society to produce a new translation from the Norwegian of Nordahl Grieg's 'Gerd', which was displayed around the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square. Prior to this position, he taught for some years at Bath Spa University College.

Gross also commits his time to working in schools, and has published both novels and poetry collections for children and young people. In Poetry Review These experiments begin in Gross's notebooks, which, he explains, contains the "mulch" that eventually take on the form of poems.

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And certainly his poems retain the thoughts and provocations that propel a stream of consciousness. He weaves recollection with reflection, always retaining a sense of what has gone before but never quite settling in the present.

Gross himself maintains that "we inhabit history", and his poetry communicates a constant searching with little progression or certainty. While Gross is able to elaborate precisely and elegantly on the things around him, he also acknowledges an impalpable absence which leaves his characters in limbo: Finding depth in the simplest of ideas, Gross has the gift of patience when approaching themes and subject matter. His recent prize-winning collection, The Water Table , carries poems inspired by the Severn Estuary, contemplating the abiding yet unknowable fabric of water, and drawing connections between nature and mankind.

Simon Armitage, chair of the Eliot panel, appreciated that "there are big concerns throughout the book and [Gross] writes with real lyrical confidence". Many of Gross's collections attempt to consolidate identities from his past and present homeland.

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Description Details Customer Reviews From its opening page -- a refugee's first sight of England -- Changes of Address presents a journey through our times, a search for the meaning of 'home'. With its humour and deep honesty, its vivid storytelling, its sense of history and brilliant observations of the here and now, this book of poems is as rich and multi-layered as a novel. It brings together for the first time the whole range of Philip Gross's poetry from the s and 90s -- a generous selection from his Bloodaxe, Faber and Peterloo collections along with uncollected poems and work from limited editions and collaborations.

Changes of Address shows his development from the prize-winning Ice Factory to the Whitbread-shortlisted Wasting Game, but takes the reader also into previously unknown reaches of Philip Gross territory.

It does not cover his later work. He won the T.

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