Philip Gross: The Wasting Game from ts 2009 review Watch Video
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Description: The title-sequence of Philip Gross’s collection The Wasting Game (1998) is his fatherly response to his daughter’s anorexia, as Helen Dunmore observed in a review of the book: ‘At the core of this new collection are the harrowing and beautiful poems in which a father witnesses his daughter’s near-fatal struggle with anorexia. There is terror at watching a child shrink to bone, longing to bring her back to the sunlit world, anger, remorse, and above all an agonised love which resonates th
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