Dark Sky Park

worm dreaming
dreaming root and branch
and whale and ant
and dinosaur and
dreaming
you and me

Black smokers, glacier worms and tardigrades… arctic terns, snow leopards and the Aleppo cat… living in the Abyss, conquering Everest, marvelling at the Northern Lights.

An exciting and thought-provoking celebration of all that is extraordinary in the natural world. Includes fascinating information about the creatures depicted.

Short-listed for CLiPPA Award 2019 (UK)

“A powerful new collection from a master poet”

"An exciting and thought-provoking celebration of all that is extraordinary in the natural world. Includes fascinating information about the creatures depicted. Combines poetry with contextualising factual information."

"Philip Gross has chosen to celebrate some of the most unusual and unknown aspects of the natural world in this mesmerising anthology which had me wondering, learning, looking and so much more. Quite apart from being captivated by his poetic voice, I came away all the richer for what I learnt about worms, tardigrades, terns, even ivy!... It's a collection that works on so many levels."

"The poems in this dazzling new collection are rare, distinct and mesmerising as the creatures and landscapes he explores here. This is an imaginative, urgent and beautifully crafted collection."

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 children’s 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 Children’s 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.

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