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The Water Table

by Philip Gross

T.S. Eliot Prize · 2009 · Winner
Bloodaxe BookspoetryISBN 9781780370118

Award History

AwardYearStatus
T.S. Eliot Prize2009Winner

About This Book

Philip Gross's T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection meditates on water in all its forms—rivers, drainage, memory, and erosion—in poems that are spare, precise, and shot through with quiet wonder at the physical world's relationship to consciousness.

About the Author

Philip Gross is a British poet and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Wales. He won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2009 for The Water Table (Bloodaxe Books), a collection meditating on water, landscape, and memory. Read more →

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