Philip Gross Zoom Seminar 2024/25: Going the Distance
Intimate monthly seminars with Philip Gross.
* This Seminar will take place on the video-conferencing platform, ZOOM *
A regular monthly workshop group with an appetite for seeing things whole, from many angles, including our widening awareness of the world in which we find ourselves today. Come with your ongoing projects, creative obsessions and long-haul explorations of an image, theme or place. (Rogue one-off finds of poems, of course, are welcome too.)
This group will take a special interest in the ways we listen to each other’s work in progress – to what it is and what it might be – and what we can do for each other by practical response and, maybe, collaboration. We will explore how a group can balance trust and challenge, space and close engagement, in a group culture that helps each of us become ourselves, alongside each other. In particular, we will ask how working online can widen our options, without losing the closeness of a face-to-face group.
Entry into this group is by application only. If you would like to sign up, please email [email protected] for information and we will assist you in the application process.
Do not book online before applying.
8 x monthly sessions between October and May. Classes will run Tuesday 5.30–8pm on the below dates.
1-Oct
5-Nov
3-Dec
7-Jan
4-Feb
4-Mar
1-Apr
6-May
More information about how all our seminars work can be found on the Seminars Course Page.
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About Philip Gross 
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Philip Gross was born in Cornwall, son of an Estonian wartime refugee; he has lived in Plymouth, Bristol, and, latterly, South Wales, where he was Professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Wales. The Shores of Vaikus (2024) will be his 28th collection, following 12 previous books with Bloodaxe, including The Thirteenth Angel (2022), shortlisted for T.S. Eliot Prize, Between the Islands (2020) A Bright Acoustic (2017), Love Songs of Carbon (2015), winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year), Later (2013), Deep Field (2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and The Water Table (2009), winner of T.S. Eliot Prize. Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998, gathered work from earlier books including The Wasting Game. His collaborative books include I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon, 2009), with photographer Simon Denison, which won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2010, A Fold In the River (Seren, 2015) with visual artist Valerie Coffin Price, A Part of the Main (Mulfran, 2019) with poet Lesley Saunders, and Troeon/Turnings (Seren, 2021) with Welsh-language bardd Cyril Jones. He won a Cholmondeley Award in 2017.
'This is my third year with Philip and his mentoring group. It is by far the best experience I've had of expanding my knowledge and skills; and importantly with Philip's guidance and facilitation. Analysis and feedback is always respectful, honest and measured amongst the group (some of whom are regulars, like myself) - this is the culture that Philip provides. This does not mean there are no challenges, but they are safely made and safely received.'
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