Cornish books / Lyvrow Kernewek
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We have an extensive range of books about Cornwall and all things Cornish. Topics including Cornish history, Cornish architecture, Anglo-Cornish and Cornish language poetry, theatre and more besides. There are books written in English, Cornish language (with English translation) and also Anglo-Cornish dialect.
![Front cover of The Trick of the Bard Selected poems by John Harris]()
Available in October 2026
John Harris was a miner and a preacher who faced poverty so extreme he was reduced to composing poetry by scratching onto his own nails and using blackberry juice for ink. He was the first labouring-class man to win the Shakespeare Tercentenary Prize.
![Termynyow a Dheu Coming Times Poems in Cornish by Tim Saunders]()
Termynyow a Dheu | Coming Times
Cornish / Kernewek, Cornish Language, Language, Poetry, Translated poetry £7.99Here are new Cornish legends, in elegant Celtic verse with fluent English translations
![Front cover of Give Un Fitz! The Ballad of Bob Fitzsimmons Cornish Boxer]()
Give un Fitz! The Ballad of Bob Fitzsimmons is a striking new play about the triumphs and tragedies of the Helston-born boxer, Bob Fitzsimmons.
![The Word and the Shgaping of Cornwall front cover]()
This book is about the surviving graphic evidence of how the Cornish communicated and shaped their cultural identity before the modern world
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![The Mouth of Truth front cover]()
This is a compelling collection, furious and lyrical, which says much about the relationship between the writer and the Cornish nation.
![Front cover image of Virgil’s Fountain A Seafarer’s Tale A poem in Cornish by Tim Saunders]()
A poem in Cornish
Tim Saunders has brought us a poem of love and loss in which myth strives to give shape to unbearable memory.
![The Promontory People Book Cover]()
The Promontory People tells the story of the ancient Cornish people as it has never been told before, using up-to-date archaeological, archaeo-linguistic and genetic research.
Back in print
![Hark Cornish Christmas Carols]()
With two CDs containing songs recorded live in Cornwall
Hark! The Glad Sound of Cornish Carols is a record of carols sung throughout Cornwall, with scores and words, the background to the carols, the composers and reminiscences of people who sang them.
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Papers from the 2015 Cornish Buildings Group conference ‘Only a Cornishman would have the endurance to carve intractable granite’
![Cornwall's First Golden Age Book Cover]()
Out of stockIn Cornwall’s First Golden Age, Bernard Deacon gives us a groundbreaking interpretation of the history of Cornwall between the departure of the Romans and the arrival of the Normans. A period that was not a ‘dark age’ for Cornwall, but something of a golden age, when ‘Cornubia’, with its centre at Tintagel, exerted control over Devon and parts of Somerset, and established colonies in Brittany.
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Jack Clemo (1916–1994) is best known as a poet – one of the most extraordinary poets of the twentieth century – but he began his literary career writing comic short stories in Cornish dialect. A Proper Mizz-Maze brings all twenty-one of these dialect tales together for the first time.
Set around the villages, lanes and works of Clemo’s native china clay country in the 1930s, the stories of A Proper Mizz-Maze record the landscape, culture and an underrepresented language form, and they do it in an attractively light-hearted way.
![Interim Nation by Alan M. Kent]()
Identity, language and landscape – and the poet’s hopes for an autonomous Cornwall – remain at the core of this collection; but there are also new expeditions and inventive forms here as Kent looks towards France, Brittany, New Zealand, America – even outer space – to offer an ‘interim’ picture of the poet’s spiritual journey.
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It is 1901 – the dawn of the twentieth century. In the library of a remote country house in Cornwall the noted antiquarian and Celtic revivalist Edward Cardew is about to make a remarkable discovery.
![Shout Kernow Book Cover]()
Out of stockReprinting – pre-order for early March 2026
With two CDs containing 31 songs recorded live in pubs across Cornwall
A lively collection of words, tunes and harmonies with the background to the songs, singers and venues.
![Wave Hub, New Poetry From Cornwall]()
Cornwall is at the hub of the Celtic Sea, and this collection of new poetry celebrates the best verse to emerge from there in recent times.
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Bewnans Peran [The Life of St Piran] celebrates the life and deeds of the patron saint of Cornwall, Saint Piran.
