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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Description
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- In the beginning…
- Walking the Knife
- Amour-en-cage
- Icelings
- Plunge
- Spoils of Acre
- Damp, Rising
- The 1 a.m.
- Long-loaders
- Like Knives
- Gulls Mating
- Glass House Days
- An Opening
- Tryst
- Thin Places
- The Drowned Book
- Talking Stick
- Coromandel
- Or Was It Baden-Baden?
- Stills
- Written Off
- Taking the Waters
- Some Fine Folly
- Hydrotherapy.
- Nick
- Pantomime Nights
- Mr Biscuit.
- Prelude, with Feedback
- The Road to Nada
- Ghost Ranch: Georgia O’Keefe
- Life in the Glass Age
- Strange But True
- Mappa Mundi
- We Are the Twittering Machine
- Losing It
- Ithaca
- Wickanninnish
- First Night
- The Key to the Kingdom
- Tales of the Forest
- The Word
- Come the Day
- Iceland
- Retreat
- Pound
- The Edge of Summer
- Nocturne
- The Kingdom of Corrugated
- As When
- 15/50
- The White Machines
- All the Weather You Can Think Of
- About the Author
- Copyright
