A Fold in the River

Coming to South Wales, T. S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Philip Gross lived on the banks of the River Taff near Quakers Yard. Here, his poems and journals from that encounter meet the visual responses of artist Valerie Coffin Price, grounded through walking in an immediate engagement with place. Together they unfold past and present landscapes in a subtle creative conversation with each other’s art and ways of seeing, as well as with the river itself. The result is A Fold in the River, a stunning collection of poetry and original artwork.

Phillip Gross is an award-winning poet and novelist who collaborates with artists, musicians, dancers, and puppeteers. He is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Glamorgan in Wales. His poetry collection The Water Table won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2009, I Spy Pinhole Eye won Wales Book of the Year 2010, and Off Road to Everywhere won the CLPE Award for Children’s Poetry 2011. His other work includes Deep Field and Later. With filmmaker Wyn Mason, he created the interactive poetry-film website Flow and Frame. Valerie Coffin Price is a Welsh artist and letterer whose work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. Her solo exhibitions includingDistant Voices, Intimate Cartographies, and Territoires.