TROEON : TURNINGS by Philip Gross, Cyril Jones, and Valerie Coffin Price Deryn Rees-Jones a kind of tatty or

a kind of tatty or compromised pastoral are detectable in Didsbury’s oblique

and – if we are willing to laugh at ourselves – humor

surviving on angry couplets

Simon Armitage

TROEON : TURNINGS by Philip Gross, Cyril Jones, and Valerie Coffin Price Deryn Rees-Jones a kind of tatty orTo turn, to dig, to plough, to upset, to translate Bend, lap, journey, time The Welsh word troeon unfolds meaning after meaning. In TROEON : TURNINGS, two poets confident in their own traditions meet in the hinterland between translation and collaboration Cyril Jones from the disciplines of Welsh cynghanedd, Philip Gross from the restless variety of English verse. Rather than lamenting the impossibility of reproducing any languages unique knots of