The Water Table

Philip Gross · 2009 CE · Poem · English · Contemporary

Poems of the Severn estuary and its tidal border, where land and water exchange places twice a day, turn the shoreline into a figure for shifting identity. The speaker walks the margins of Wales and England. A lyric sequence that won the Eliot Prize.

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