Between the Islands by Philip Gross #Ocean Clarkson is a formally audacious

Clarkson is a formally audacious poet of astonishing vision

For the first 100 days of the new government they published a poem a day on their New Boots and Pantisocracies blog

'Her New & Collected Poems

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Between the Islands by Philip Gross #Ocean Clarkson is a formally audaciousThe two searching sequences that bookend this collection are not so much elegies as unfinished conversations with friends no longer living friendships lost or neglected, with their closeness and distances sensitively mapped. This is Philip Grosss writing at its most hospitable, lit up by a sense of personal address, both tactful and deeply engaged. The sea that is always in sight, between us and beyond us, is more than a metaphor. It is another