The Water Table by Philip Gross

From : The Guardian


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Polly Clark applauds a humane collection which this week won the TS Eliot prize for poetry.





Water is a dominant theme in many of poetry's recent prizewinners: Don ­Paterson's Rain won the 2009 Forward prize and Sean O'Brien's The Drowned Book was a double winner of TS Eliot and Forward in 2007. One of the poets shortlisted for this year's Eliot prize, Alice Oswald, is also a chronicler of the life of rivers and won the prize a few years ago for her second collection, Dart. So The Water Table enters a somewhat crowded waterway, and one might be forgiven for doubting that there is much more that can be said


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