Philip Gross

Website: http://www.philipgross.co.uk/

Philip Gross was born in 1952 in Cornwall, the only child of a wartime refugee from Estonia and a schoolmaster's daughter. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University. He has published six books with Bloodaxe, including The Water Table (2009), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Egg of Zero (2006), Mappa Mundi (2003), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998 (2001), his selection from earlier books including The Ice Factory, Cat’s Whisker, The Son of the Duke of Nowhere, I.D. and The Wasting Game. He is also the author of ten highly-praised novels for young people. He lived in Bristol and Bath for many years, and now lives in Penarth in South Wales.

Philip Gross reads from his T.S. Eliot prize-winning book, The Water Table: