From my Poetry Bookshelf – Philip Gross
I own two books by Philip Gross – The Water Table (winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2009), and Love Songs of Carbon (from 2015), both published by Bloodeaxe Books. I’m not quite sure why I only have two of his collections. In my opinion he is one of our best contemporary poets. I grew up in Somerset, so a lot of his location – based writing has deep resonance for me (Gross was…