{"product_id":"love-songs-of-carbon-paperback","title":"Love Songs of Carbon - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Gross\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove Songs of Carbon \u003c\/i\u003eis Philip Gross's 18th book of poetry, and is a coming of age - inhabiting the ageing body with a confident, inventive curiosity. At the same time searching, tender, intellectually agile, unexpected and erotic, this is poetry at home with great shifts of perspective, from the outer edge of science to the sensations at our fingertips. These are love poems, both to the person and to the body itself, even as - especially as - it faces entropy and decay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Cornwall, son of an Estonian wartime refugee, Philip Gross has lived in Plymouth, Bristol and South Wales, where he was Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University (USW). His 27th collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Thirteenth Angel\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and is shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022. It follows eleven previous books with Bloodaxe, including \u003cem\u003eBetween the Islands\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), \u003cem\u003eA Bright Acoustic\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), \u003cem\u003eLove Songs of Carbon\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; \u003cem\u003eDeep Field\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; \u003cem\u003eThe Water Table\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009; and \u003cem\u003eChanges of Address: Poems 1980-1998\u003c\/em\u003e (2001), his selection from earlier books including \u003cem\u003eThe Ice Factory, Cat's Whisker, The Son of the Duke of Nowhere, I.D.\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Wasting Game\u003c\/em\u003e. Since \u003cem\u003eThe Air Mines of Mistila\u003c\/em\u003e (with Sylvia Kantaris, Bloodaxe Books, 1988), he has been a keen collaborator, most recently with artist Valerie Coffin Price on \u003cem\u003eA Fold in the River \u003c\/em\u003e(2015), with poet Lesley Saunders on \u003cem\u003eA Part of the Main \u003c\/em\u003e(2018), and with Welsh-language \u003cem\u003ebardd\u003c\/em\u003e Cyril Jones on \u003cem\u003eTroeon\/Turnings\u003c\/em\u003e (2021). \u003cem\u003eI Spy Pinhole Eye\u003c\/em\u003e (Cinnamon Press, 2009), with photographer Simon Denison, won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2010. He received a Cholmondeley Award in 2017. Philip Gross's poetry for young people includes \u003cem\u003eManifold Manor, The All-Nite Café\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Signal Award 1994), \u003cem\u003eOff Road to Everywhere\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the CLPE Award 2011) and the poetry-science collection \u003cem\u003eDark Sky Park \u003c\/em\u003e(shortlisted for the CLiPPA award 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42730148724799,"sku":"9781780372587","price":21.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/237bc861653e7ce395a55e796136ee78.webp?v=1765125014","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/love-songs-of-carbon-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}