Philip Gross was born in Cornwall, the son of an Estonian wartime refugee. He has lived in Plymouth, Bristol and South Wales, where he was Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University (USW). His twenty-eighth book of poetry, The Shores of Vaikus, was published by Bloodaxe in 2024. His previous collection, The Thirteenth Angel (2022), was a Poetry Book Society...
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In 2023 the T. S. Eliot Prize celebrated its 30th anniversary. We marked the occasion by looking back at the collections which have won ‘the Prize poets most want to win’ (Sir Andrew Motion). Philip Gross won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2009 for The Water Table (Bloodaxe Books), chosen...
Between 2006 and 2015, the Poetry Book Society ran the T. S. Eliot School Shadowing Scheme (later renamed the Writing Competition) in collaboration with the English and Media Centre, offering GCSE and A Level students the chance to get involved with the judging of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Two...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2010. Congratulations to Philip Gross for winning the T. S. Eliot Prize 2009 with The Water Table (Bloodaxe Books). The other poets on the shortlist were: The Sun-fish – Eiléan Nà Chuilleánain...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2009. The Poetry Book Society is delighted to announce the Shortlist for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2009. Judges Simon Armitage (Chair), Colette Bryce and Penelope Shuttle have chosen the...
