Changes of Address

by Gross, Philip

• ISBN13: 9781852245726
• ISBN10: 1852245727
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

This Poetry Book Society Special Commendation collection brings together for the first time the whole range of Philip Gross's poetry -- a generous selection from his previous books, along with uncollected poems and work from limited editions and collaborations. It shows his development from the prize-winning Ice Factory to the Whitbread-short listed Wasting Game, but also takes the reader into previously unknown reaches of Philip Gross territory. With its humor and deep honesty, its vivid storytelling, its sense of history and brilliant observations of the here and now, this book of poems is as rich and multi-layered as a novel.

Table of Contents

New Words for Home	p. 12
Stations	p. 14
Snail Paces	p. 15
Crab	p. 15
In Another Part of the Wood ...	p. 16
Night-Offering	p. 16
The October People	p. 17
Facing the Sea	p. 17
Vapourer	p. 18
Allies	p. 19
The Displaced Persons Camp	p. 20
The Victory Dance	p. 20
A Honeymoon	p. 22
A Plague of Jellyfish	p. 22
The Gift	p. 23
First Encounter	p. 24
Post Natal	p. 24
First Day Out	p. 25
A Report of the Burglary	p. 25
Beside the Reservoir	p. 26
The Curator's Tale	p. 26
Man and Wife	p. 27
The Musical Cottage	p. 29
Nursery Rhymes	p. 29
A Ringside Seat	p. 30
The Stadium	p. 31
Powder Mills	p. 32
The Ice Factory	p. 33
Hearing Voices	p. 36
Cat's Whisker	p. 36
Revelations	p. 37
Loving Spoonful	p. 38
Post Marks	p. 38
1 Snow Scene	p. 38
2 From the Other Side	p. 39
3 English as a Foreign Language	p. 40
The Balance	p. 41
Baltic Amber	p. 42
A Breton Dance	p. 42
Hole in the Ground	p. 43
Stonepecker	p. 44
Moore	p. 46
Apple Gatherers	p. 47
Little Dancer	p. 48
Tar Boilers	p. 49
Here Today	p. 50
A Cornish Saint	p. 51
Magic Lantern	p. 52
The Lookout	p. 53
Shadow on the Water	p. 54
From the Fast Train	p. 54
Tabernacle Yard	p. 55
The Private Sector	p. 56
Man and Wife II	p. 56
The Ghost Trap	p. 58
Coelacanth	p. 61
The Clever Children	p. 62
Son and Heir	p. 63
Boys Fishing	p. 63
A Mercy	p. 64
The Cloud Chamber	p. 65
Flying Dreams	p. 66
Charlot's War	p. 69
Blank Page, Marginal Notes	p. 72
Early Warning	p. 74
From A Game of Consequences	p. 74
A Few Words for Walt Whitman	p. 75
What This Hand Did	p. 76
Threads	p. 77
From The Air Mines of Mistila	p. 78
Marked Route	p. 78
A Passing	p. 79
Dr. Crampfold's Complaint	p. 81
Lischka and the Chief of Police	p. 81
A Perfect Match	p. 82
Alys, Wife of the Chief of Police	p. 83
Last Sight of Xencha	p. 84
The Dancing	p. 85
From The Case of Thomas Prote	p. 86
Last Entry	p. 86
Among the Snake Worshippers of Brazil	p. 87
A Coffee House in Murrenstrand, 1929	p. 88
From On Why Books Be An Abomination ...	p. 88
Translated	p. 89
The Painter of the Lake	p. 90
In the Fothills of Synaesthesia	p. 91
House of Paper	p. 92
Welcome to the Forest	p. 95
Away From It All	p. 96
Son of Snotnose	p. 97
The Duke of Nowhere	p. 98
Lahti	p. 99
Saying When	p. 101
Envoi	p. 102
A Summit	p. 103
What the Mountain Saw	p. 103
Petit Mal	p. 105
The Dancing Princesses	p. 106
On the Hoof	p. 106
Heavy Weather	p. 108
An Incident on the Line	p. 109
Dust	p. 110
The Way We Are	p. 111
Big Wheel	p. 113
A Crumb	p. 114
Catch	p. 116
From A Game of Henge	p. 117
Frost Fair	p. 121
Enter a Poet	p. 122
The Tale of 'You' and 'I'	p. 123
Wednesday's Child	p. 124
Secret Garden	p. 125
Shift	p. 126
Grace Notes	p. 127
The Song of the House	p. 130
The End of the End of the Pier Show	p. 131
Nocturne with Glue	p. 134
Flit	p. 135
Late	p. 136
The Tennis Court in Winter	p. 136
Beyonders	p. 137
Cut, Cut	p. 140
Closed Circuit	p. 140
Hard Luck Cafe	p. 141
Downhometown	p. 141
Figure in Landscape: China Clay	p. 142
He Went That Way	p. 143
From The Wolfboy's Progress	p. 144
Static	p. 149
Digital	p. 149
Bonfire Night	p. 150
Bodily Fluids	p. 151
Night Doubles	p. 152
From A Day at the Earth-House	p. 152
Under the Stone	p. 152
Earthwork	p. 153
Long Barrow	p. 153
Silbury Hill	p. 154
Sarsens	p. 155
Dating	p. 155
Crack	p. 155
Resurrections	p. 156
The Barber Surgeon's Song	p. 156
Ex	p. 157
Time Out	p. 158
Guest of the Atlantic	p. 159
Mermaid, Zennor Church	p. 161
A Dangerous Age	p. 162
Mispickel	p. 163
Rites and Passages	p. 164
Out There	p. 166
Visiting Persephone	p. 168
The Sick Child	p. 169
The Wasting Game	p. 170
Ledge	p. 177
Imago	p. 177
Trebizond	p. 179
Tail	p. 180
Thou'	p. 181
Nineteenseventysomething	p. 181
Spirit Level	p. 182
Nature Studies	p. 183
1 Fern Charm	p. 183
2 Foxgloves at Dungeness	p. 184
3 Dragonfly Tanka	p. 184
4 Sundew	p. 184
5 Limpets	p. 185
Beach Party	p. 185
A Detail from Bosch	p. 186
Dry	p. 187
A Scorcher	p. 188
Persons Unknown	p. 189
Postcards, West Bay	p. 192
A Liminal State	p. 193
1 Documentary	p. 193
2 The Bronze Age	p. 194
3 Liminal	p. 195
4 Heart Stones	p. 195
5 International Relations	p. 196
6 Scorched Earth	p. 197
7 Forest Brother	p. 198
8 In the Bar of the Writers' Union	p. 200
9 Postsoviet Postmodern	p. 200
Babble	p. 201
Kleep	p. 203
The Language of the Bird People	p. 204
That Grave, Heptonstall Churchyard	p. 209
Mock Orange	p. 210
Sweet Bird	p. 212
Love and Co	p. 213
Hungry Ghosts in Happy Eater	p. 213
Time Lapse	p. 214
Tact	p. 215
Underside	p. 216
Gargangel	p. 217
Hanging Garden	p. 218
Fosse Way, Grey Day	p. 220
Ground Control	p. 221
Changes of Address	p. 222
Summerhouse Sauna	p. 223
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