List Of Writers

GROSS, PHILIP

Website: www.philipgross.co.uk
Email: pgross@glam.ac.uk

Born in 1952 in Delabole, Cornwall. Son of an Estonian wartime refugee and the village schoolmaster/s daughter. Has written poetry for adults and children, novels for young people, plays for radio and stage, short stories and opera libretti. He has won an Eric Gregory Award and numerous prizes, and his 1998 collection The Wasting Game (Bloodaxe, 1998) was shortlisted for the Whitbread prize. A teacher of creative writing since 1984, he joined the University of Glamorgan in 2004 as Professor in Creative Writing.

Selected Publications:

Poetry
Familiars (Peterloo Poets, 1982)
The Ice Factory (Faber and Faber, 1984)
Cat’s Whiskers (Faber and Faber, 1987)
The Air Mines of Mistila (Bloodaxe, 1988) 
The Son of the Duke of Nowhere (Faber and Faber, 1991)
I.D (Faber and Faber, 1994)
A Cast of Stones (Digging Deeper Press, 1996)
The Wasting Game (Bloodaxe, 1998)
Changes of Address: Poems 1980–98 (Bloodaxe, 2001)
Mappa Mundi (Bloodaxe, 2003)
The Egg of Zero (Bloodaxe, 2006)
The Abstract Garden (The Old Stile Press, 2006)

Novels for Young People
Manifold Manor (Faber and Faber, 1989)
The Song of Gail and Fludd (Faber and Faber, 1991)
The All–Nite Cafe (Faber and Faber, 1993)
Plex (Scholastic, 1994)
The Wind Gate (Scholastic, 1995)
Scratch City (Faber and Faber, 1995)
Close Cut (Thirteen Again) (Scholastic, 1995)
Scree (13 Murder Mysteries) (Scholastic, 1996)
Transformer (Scholastic, 1996)
Psylicon Beach (Scholastic, 1998)
Facetaker (Scholastic, 1999)
Going For Stone (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Marginaliens (Oxford University Press, 2003)
The Lastling (Oxford University Press, 2003)
The Storm Garden (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Contributed to:
Pendulum: The Poetry of Dreams (contributor) (Avalanche Books, 2008)