Changes Of Address: Poems 1980-1998 (Poetry Book Society Spec

Author Biography: This Poetry Book Society Special Commendation collection brings together for the first time the whole range of Philip Gross's poetry-a generous selection from his previous books, along with uncollected poems and work from limited editions and collaborations. It shows his development from the prize-winning Ice Factory to the Whitbread-short listed Wasting Game, but also takes the reader into previously unknown reaches of Philip Gross territory. With its humor and deep honesty, its vivid storytelling, its sense of history and brilliant observations of the here and now, this book of poems is as rich and multi-layered as a novel.

Presents a journey, a search for the meaning of home, drawing together poems from all his Bloodaxe, Faber and Peterloo collections. It includes his Whitebread-shortlisted Wasting Game-poems on his daughters anorexia.

Author Biography: Philip Gross is a poet, novelist and play wright, and lives in Bristol. Changes of Address draws on previous collections including The Ice Factor, Cat's Whisker, The son of the Duke of Nowhere, I.D. and The Wasting Game. He has also publishes poetry for young people inc;luding Manifold Mannor, The All Night Cafe (Winner of the Signal Award and Scratch City (Faber)