Green Road

Poems 1977-1985

Holmes Philip

Philip Holmes's third book centres on a sequence of poems about the Swaledale lead mines in Yorkshire and those who lived, worked, stayed or emigrated to America from there. These poems, and three other groups which complete the collection – poems in memory of his mother, poems with scientific themes, and finally poems with a New England background – were written since Philip Holmes settled in the United States in 1977.

About the Author

Philip Holmes was born in Lincolnshire in 1945. He took degrees in Engineering at Oxford and Southampton before moving to the USA, where he is Professor of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics at Princeton University. He has published numerous scientific papers and books. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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Awards won by Philip Holmes
Winner, 1986 Poetry Book Society (PBS): Recommendation – Autumn (The Green Road)

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