Dark Sky Park: Poems from the Edge of Nature

About Philip Gross

PHILIP GROSS is a multi-award- winning poet writing for both children and adults. In 2009 his collection The Water Table won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2010 I Spy Pinhole Eye was Wales English-language Book of the Year and his childrens collection Off Road to Everywhere was awarded the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Prize in 2011. He has visited schools across the UK working with teachers and leading writing workshops. He has taught creative writing at Bath Spa University and from 2004 to 2017 he was Professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Wales. He lives in Penarth. JESSE HODGSON graduated in Illustration at UWE Bristol in 2012. Her first picture book Pongo was Highly Commended for the 2012 Macmillan Childrens Book Prize and was published by Flying Eye Books in 2013. Tiger Walk with Dianne Hofmeyr is published by Otter-Barry Books in 2018. Jesse lives in Bristol.