Praise Song for Bramble


Find an accessible Google doc version of this poem here.
Philip Gross’ Thirteenth Angel (Bloodaxe, 2022) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Recent collaborations include, with artist Valerie Coffin Price, A Fold In The River (2015), and Cyril Jones, Troeon/Turnings (2021). The Shores of Vaikus, a creative re-inhabiting of Estonia, his refugee father’s birthplace, comes from Bloodaxe in November.