This Poetry Book Society Special Commendation collection brings together for the first time the whole range of Philip Gross's poetry -- a generous selection from his previous books, along with uncollected poems and work from limited editions and collaborations. It shows his development from the prize-winning Ice Factory to the Whitbread-short listed Wasting Game, but also takes the reader into previously unknown reaches of Philip Gross territory. With its humor and deep honesty, its vivid storytelling, its sense of history and brilliant observations of the here and now, this book of poems is as rich and multi-layered as a novel.