Mappa Mundi

The medieval Mappa Mundi showed the real world hedged about with wonders. Philip Gross''s poems in Mappa Mundi are as vividly observed and sometimes fabulous as the traveller''s tales of antiquity. Like those creatures in the margins of old maps they are hybrids of real longings, truth and lies. Each is a journey, open-ended and surprising, giving glimpses of the Middle East, the Pacific North-Wes...