Mappa Mundi
eBook - ePub

Mappa Mundi

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mappa Mundi

About this book

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-West, or a Europe of lost spas. There is an encounter with Edward Lear in a Balkan republic of Coromandel, there is snow in the outback, plus some impossible countries that you somehow recognise. These poems explore the spaces that can open between buildings in a city street, in the shifting lights of love and ageing, or in the gaps between words. Heady and sobering, unsettling, celebratory, they come home with findings from the real world of the senses, heart and mind. Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Philip Gross won the T.S. Eliot Prize for his 2009 collection The Water Table.

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Information

Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781780370149
Subtopic
Poetry

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Contents
  7. In the beginning…
  8. Walking the Knife
  9. Amour-en-cage
  10. Icelings
  11. Plunge
  12. Spoils of Acre
  13. Damp, Rising
  14. The 1 a.m.
  15. Long-loaders
  16. Like Knives
  17. Gulls Mating
  18. Glass House Days
  19. An Opening
  20. Tryst
  21. Thin Places
  22. The Drowned Book
  23. Talking Stick
  24. Coromandel
  25. Or Was It Baden-Baden?
  26. Stills
  27. Written Off
  28. Taking the Waters
  29. Some Fine Folly
  30. Hydrotherapy.
  31. Nick
  32. Pantomime Nights
  33. Mr Biscuit.
  34. Prelude, with Feedback
  35. The Road to Nada
  36. Ghost Ranch: Georgia O’Keefe
  37. Life in the Glass Age
  38. Strange But True
  39. Mappa Mundi
  40. We Are the Twittering Machine
  41. Losing It
  42. Ithaca
  43. Wickanninnish
  44. First Night
  45. The Key to the Kingdom
  46. Tales of the Forest
  47. The Word
  48. Come the Day
  49. Iceland
  50. Retreat
  51. Pound
  52. The Edge of Summer
  53. Nocturne
  54. The Kingdom of Corrugated
  55. As When
  56. 15/50
  57. The White Machines
  58. All the Weather You Can Think Of
  59. About the Author
  60. Copyright