{"product_id":"the-thirteenth-angel-paperback","title":"The Thirteenth Angel - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Gross\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize 2022. Philip Gross is a previous winner of the T S Eliot Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Water Table\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith each new book, Philip Gross' poems extend their conversation between the metaphysical and the acutely physical. His sequences in \u003ci\u003eThe Thirteenth Angel\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Cornwall, son of an Estonian wartime refugee, \u003cstrong\u003ePhilip Gross\u003c\/strong\u003e has lived in Plymouth, Bristol and South Wales, where he was Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University (USW). His 27th collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Thirteenth Angel\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and is shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022. It follows eleven previous books with Bloodaxe, including \u003cem\u003eBetween the Islands\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), \u003cem\u003eA Bright Acoustic\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), \u003cem\u003eLove Songs of Carbon\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; \u003cem\u003eDeep Field\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; \u003cem\u003eThe Water Table\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009; and \u003cem\u003eChanges of Address: Poems 1980-1998\u003c\/em\u003e (2001), his selection from earlier books including \u003cem\u003eThe Ice Factory, Cat's Whisker, The Son of the Duke of Nowhere, I.D.\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Wasting Game\u003c\/em\u003e. Since \u003cem\u003eThe Air Mines of Mistila\u003c\/em\u003e (with Sylvia Kantaris, Bloodaxe Books, 1988), he has been a keen collaborator, most recently with artist Valerie Coffin Price on \u003cem\u003eA Fold in the River \u003c\/em\u003e(2015), with poet Lesley Saunders on \u003cem\u003eA Part of the Main \u003c\/em\u003e(2018), and with Welsh-language \u003cem\u003ebardd\u003c\/em\u003e Cyril Jones on \u003cem\u003eTroeon\/Turnings\u003c\/em\u003e (2021). \u003cem\u003eI Spy Pinhole Eye\u003c\/em\u003e (Cinnamon Press, 2009), with photographer Simon Denison, won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2010. He received a Cholmondeley Award in 2017. Philip Gross's poetry for young people includes \u003cem\u003eManifold Manor, The All-Nite Café\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Signal Award 1994), \u003cem\u003eOff Road to Everywhere\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the CLPE Award 2011) and the poetry-science collection \u003cem\u003eDark Sky Park \u003c\/em\u003e(shortlisted for the CLiPPA award 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352159600889,"sku":"9781780376356","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/YTcwOGJBSktqQXphMlhVeHZVc2p6Zz09.webp?v=1769805659","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-thirteenth-angel-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}