Water Table

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. A powerful and ambiguous body of water lies at the heart of these poems, with shoals and channels that change with the forty-foot tide. Even the name is fluid -- from one shore, the Bristol Channel, from the other Mr Hafren, the Severn Sea'' Philip Gross''s meditations move with subtle steps between these shifting grounds and those of the man-made world, the ageing ...