Philip Gross

Philip Gross has published nearly 30 collections of poetry in 40 years, most recently The Shores of Vaikus, a creative re-inhabiting of Estonia, his refugee father’s birthplace (Bloodaxe, 2024). The Water Table won the T.S.Eliot Prize in 2009. He thrives on collaborations – with Lesley Saunders on A Part of the Main (Mulfran, 2018), with scientists on the young people's collection Dark Sky Park (Otter-Barry, 2018) and with artist Valerie Coffin Price and Welsh-language poet Cyril Jones on Troeon/Turnings (Seren, 2021). A new collection, The Field, the Wood, the Way is due in 2027.