The Thirteenth Angel
The Thirteenth Angel by Philip Gross, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2022, is a collection of poetry that explores the interplay between the metaphysical and the physical world. This edition spans 93 pages and is presented in English. The poems in this work engage with the nuances of life, capturing the stress patterns of our surroundings, from the changing weather to the impact of events on our bodies and urban landscapes, particularly in the context of the pandemic.
Readers will find that Gross’s sequences in The Thirteenth Angel reflect on themes of death, grief, and loss, while also incorporating elements of nature and the human experience. The poems are characterized by their ability to register fleeting moments of clarity, revealing connections between immediate realities and deeper reflections. This collection invites contemplation on the intersections of life and the world, offering insights that resonate with the complexities of contemporary existence.
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A 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 The Water Table.
With each new book, 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.
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