TROEON Gross Philip
TROEON: TURNINGS is the fruit of a creative collaboration between English Language poet Philip Gross and Welsh language poet Cyril Jones. The work is further enlivened with cover and text designs by…
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TROEON: TURNINGS is the fruit of a creative collaboration between English Language poet Philip Gross and Welsh language poet Cyril Jones. The work is further enlivened with cover and text designs by fine artist Valerie Coffin Price. The poems feature watery themes and are primarily inspired by a myriad of rivers '...on their separate ways to articulation: north south east/ west, toward opposite coasts...'. Cyril Jones also contributes some English translations of his own Welsh poems and Philip Gross writes directly in response to Cyril's contributions.The creative conversation between the two has produced a wider range of poems than expected, with several themes begging to be pursued: the flowing of water, the different rivers central to each writer's life, the life-stories associated with them, and the translation process itself. Both poets have been drawn into