The zero at the heart of these poems is not nothing - not simply absence, forgetting or loss, though there are moving elegies among them. This is a not-quite-definable zero that gives surprising edge to life and language round it. Direct, meditative, playful, hyper-alert, Philip Gross's distinctively wide range of tones work together in a subtle, searching new collection that addresses both the mind and heart. These poems explore the spaces that can open between buildings in a city street, in the shifting lights of love and ageing, or in the gaps between words. Heady and sobering, unsettling, celebratory, they come home with findings from the real world of the senses, heart and mind.
- ISBN10 178037013X
- ISBN13 9781780370132
- Publish Date 27 March 2014 (first published 27 January 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 80
- Language English