Philip Gross wins the Wales Book of the Year award for
I Spy Pinhole Eye
Although it was Gross's work that the judges were rewarding, the poet, novelist and dramatist said the book would never have happened without Denison's "extraordinary" photographs. "I've never been the kind of writer who goes out to find big themes and issues. Essentially, if you find a lump of rock and look at it with enough intent, it will eventually tell you everything you need to know about the world – as happened with this," said Gross. "What we started from here isn't even a pylon, it is the lump of concrete the pylon stands in, literally as down-to-earth as you can get. The message is, you can look at anything – what gets you there is your way of looking."
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sample poem--
Seeing
Seeing, only seeing
is the hush that comes upon us
in the camera obscura,
round the battered
shallow bowl of a world
with woods and wind and
people seething in it,
seeing them not seeing ...
We’re the back row
of the silent picture palace,
the usherette’s torch,
the zippo spark,
the cigarette tip glowing
here in Plato’s cave.
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