Philip Gross's top 10 writings from the edge of language

The Waste Land

Jabberwocky, the poet gathers his favorite work of the "conversation between words and silence,"

Philip Gross has written for radio and stage, 10 novels for young opera librettos and collaborations of all kinds, but is best known as a poet. His collection of groundwater has won the TS Eliot, in collaboration with I Spy Eye pinhole photography (with Simon Denison) Wales was the book of the year and the road to all parts of poetry won BPRS children. His new collection, Deep Field, has just been published by Bloodaxe.

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"I just returned from Friesland / Friesland in the north of Holland, to hear a language that is so close to English is like looking at the face through a window bathed in rain. A good cleaning, feels, and you

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them. Now I'm on the disk from south to north Wales, where two languages ??side by side the other oil and water, mixed melting rather not speak Welsh or Frisian -. any other language, in fact, well enough to dream and write a poem about him -. But the irregular border of the language is familiar to me

"I grew up with him on one side, English on the other language, my father -. Who was a refugee during the war in Estonia - that all things were never talked about their experiences in war that he said ... In his old age, are to each other, perhaps better than ever, through the edge of the tongue as he lost his words are cruel aphasia.

"My book is the deepest in the field any record I've always alert for places where language fails us,. As a child with a stutter, I had no choice but writing has remained in my. not mind walking that edge, too much poetry, it is always -. conversation between words and silence - but do not feel good writer, and sometimes taste, the imperfection of words "

1. Ruin by an unknown Anglo-Saxon author

This poem is on the horizon of English poetry. It is a ruin (probably the Roman city of Bath) and is itself a, trailing off into fragments when the sections were burned. The survivors scattered words in these lines and the spaces between them are more eloquent than any case the lines are intact.

2. The Waste Land by TS Eliot

"These fragments I have backed up against my ruins," said a voice near the end lost the division epic Eliot (cultural harmony, personal and lost their voice). Do not be fooled by academic degrees at the end. It is in the moments just before the intellect can follow the references and to understand the meanings The Wasteland really talk

3. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

is a novel that reads like a poem. In a post-nuclear dark, the language is broken, stunted growth, in part lost, as all around him. From these materials, a new mythology that we met, because that's what human creativity is going to do with common phrases and images every day to be born rich and strange.

• 4. Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber

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"I do not, because there were people in my name," said the last of the Yana California Native Americans in the finals that were out of contact with European culture. The name is Ishi Yana for "man." When he reached the hills, the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber made his partner in the study and the research. This curiosity is respectful of the otherness of others worlds are transferred to the novels of Kroeber's daughter, beautiful Ursula Le Guin.

5. Mom / Llofrudd Iaith Gwyneth Lewis

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