{"id":942,"date":"2024-11-25T19:53:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/philip-gross\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:59:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T09:59:40","slug":"philip-gross","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/philip-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">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, <em>The Shores of Vaikus<\/em>, was published by Bloodaxe in 2024. His previous collection, <em>The Thirteenth Angel<\/em> (2022), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2022. His eleven previous books for Bloodaxe include: <i>Between the Islands<\/i> (2020); <i>A Bright Acoustic<\/i> (2017); <i>Love Songs of Carbon<\/i> (2015), winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; <i>Deep Field<\/i> (2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; <i>The Water Table<\/i> (2009), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2009; and <i>Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998<\/i> (2001). He regularly collaborates with other artists, photographers and writers; he also writes poetry for young people \u2013 <i>The All-Nite Caf\u00e9 <\/i>won the Signal Award 1994, and <i>Off Road to Everywhere<\/i> won the CLPE Award 2011. He received a Cholmondeley Award in 2017. <em>Photo \u00a9 Stephen Morris<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":943,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-942","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}