Ebook: The Water Table

Cover; Description; Title Page; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of Contents; Sluice Angel; Betweenland I; Betweenland II; White Sheet; Atlantis World; Designs for the Water Garden; Almost Alabaster; Fantasia on a Theme from IKEA; Betweenland III; Coming To; Stilt City; Ware; Betweenland IV; Boffins; Amphora; Pour; The Presence; Globe; Betweenland V; Concentrations; Bridge Passages; Betweenland VI; The Moveable Island; Betweenland VII; Hereinunder; Betweenland VIII; Bread and Salt; Yalta, 1945; The Grounds; To Build a Bridge; Betweenland IX; First Things; Elderly Iceberg off the Esplanade.;Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. A powerful and ambiguous body of water lies at the heart ofthese poems, with shoals and channels that change with theforty-foot tide. Even the name is fluid - from one shore, theBristol Channel, from the other Môr Hafren, the Severn Sea. Philip Gross's meditations move with subtle steps betweenthese shifting grounds and those of the man-made world, theageing body and that ever-present mystery, the self. Admirers ofhis work know each new collection is a new stage; this onemarks a crossing into a new questioning, new clarity and depth. 'A book of great clarity and.