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![Flight and Smoke Poems by D.M. Thomas]()
In Flight and Smoke, his first new collection of poems since Dear Shadows, D.M. Thomas blends the turbulent history of his time with his own personal history
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Scoot Dances, Troyls, Furrys and Tea Treats
Cornish / Kernewek, Traditional Music, Traditions and customs £12.99Includes dance notation and music for 45 dances
A history of dance in Cornwall, from the earliest references in Cornish literature to the dances of the folk revival today, accompanied by tunes traditional and modern, for use in schools, festivals, workshops and country dances.
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with a preface by Julian Putkowski, co-author of Shot at Dawn
Surfing Tommies follows three men on their journey from North Wheal Leisure tin mine to the horrors of the trenches in the First World War.
![The Aesthetic of beuron]()
Introduction by Hubert Krins
Afterword and notes by Peter BrookeThe first translations into English of the Benedictine monk Desiderius Lenz, who as a painter and sculptor in the late nineteenth century anticipated many of the ideas associated with twentieth-century art.
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From Cubism to Classicism and Painting and its Laws
Fine Art, Painting and its laws, The Arts £12.50In the two essays in this book, written in the 1920s, Gino Severini, the Italian Futurist painter living in Paris, and Albert Gleizes, painter and co-author of Du Cubisme, the first important theoretical defence of Cubism, reflect upon the central principles that guided painting from the Renaissance to the challenge of Cubism and Futurism in early years of the twentieth century.
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Art and Religion, Art and Science, Art and Production
Fine Art, Painting and its laws, The Arts £10.00A comprehensive theory of the history of art and the evolution of modern art and discusses twentieth century painting in the light of the changes which have occurred in other disciplines, notably mathematics and the physical sciences, and the influence of religion.
![Voices from West barbury]()
Foreword by Bernard Deacon
This anthology brings together for the first time in one collection the riches of Anglo-Cornish poetry from the Renaissance to the the twentieth century.
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With a history of the Cornish revival by Amy Hale
Foreword by Bobi Jones
Tim Saunders has gathered together more than a hundred poems from a variety of sources – magazines, books and manuscripts – to give us the first ever survey of poetry in the Cornish language from 1850 until 1980.
![The Tin Violin by Alan M. Kent]()
OUT OF PRINT. NOW AVAILABLE AS A PDF ONLY
A play based on the remarkable life and adventures of Josh Emidy, a slave from the Guinea coast who became an accomplished musician, composer and respected teacher of the violin in Cornwall.
![Ordinalia, The Cornish Mystery Play Cycle]()
The medieval Cornish-language cycle of mystery plays – The Beginning of the World, The Passion and The Resurrection – translated in their entirety into English by Alan M. Kent.
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Alan M. Kent’s play explores the life of the seventeenth-century ‘Cornish Giant’, Anthony Payne, in a series of hilarious and touching reminiscences.
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A long-awaited collection of poetry written in Cornish in the last twenty years. A coming of age for the Cornish language and its literature.
![Navitas Christi The Nativity]()
Alan M. Kent has written a new Nativity play with all the flavour of the medieval Celtic masterpiece but with a distinctive contemporary Cornish voice. In this book we find the characters of the familiar Nativity story, along side Cornish sailors and tinners and Joseph of Arimathea and his legendary journey with Christ to Cornwall.
![The High Tide Book Cover]()
This collection contains most of Tim Saunders’ poetry in Cornish to date. The poems are accompanied by the author’s own prose translations into English.
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With a foreword by John Hurst
OUT OF PRINT. NOW AVAILABLE AS A PDF ONLY
Following Alan Kent’s acclaimed anthology Voices from West Barbary, covering the years 1549 to 1928, the present collection brings his survey of Cornwall’s poetic tradition up to the present day.
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OUT OF PRINT. NOW AVAILABLE AS A PDF ONLY
A collection of previously unpublished poems that in range and quality stands alongside Jack Clemo’s finest published work.
