The thirteenth angel / Philip Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Philip, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern.

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (86 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hexham, England : Bloodaxe Books, [2022]

Summary:

With each new collection, Philip Gross' poems extend their conversation between the metaphysical and the acutely physical. His sequences in The Thirteenth Angel scan from moment to moment like flickering needles, registering stress patterns in the world around us - ebbs and flows of weather or events, in our own bodies, in the city streets before and after the pandemic, or on the autoroutes of Europe with their undertow of human flight. If there are angels, they are nothing otherworldly, but formed by angles of incidence between real immediate things, sudden moments of clarity that may disturb, calm or exhilarate. Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize 2022 and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, The Thirteenth Angel is Philip Gross's 27th book of poetry, and his 12th from Bloodaxe.

Contents:

Intro

Description

Title Page

Acknowledgements

Contents

Nocturne: The Information

Porcelain

The Follies

Smatter

A Q'ran of Ruzbihan

Black Glass Sonata

Scenes from the Lives of Stone Angels

Disintegration Loops

Moon, O

Sky Space

The Mishnah of the Moment

Psalm: You

Paul Klee: the Later Angels

Ash Plaint in the Key of O

Transient

A Near Distance

The Named Storm

Developing the Negatives

A Shadow on the House

Crack and Warp

If Today…

Springtime in Pandemia

Descants on Dante

Thirteen Angels

Silence Like Rain

About the Author

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781780376363

1780376367

OCLC:

1349279320