Cornwall’s existential crisis has triggered a vigorous cultural response. The new music, theatre, film, art, fiction, and poetry forcefully ask how we reached where we are, and where we are going. Saunders’ latest collection enriches the bardic tradition with immediate issues – love, justice, survival, truth, and destiny. From the focused tranquility of the tiny haiku-like besontenn to the angry rhetoric in measured assertions of truth to power, this collection’s dominant theme is praise. There is praise for beauty, for those who give love, for those who put it to work in the world, and for those who have resisted violence and oppression and still resist them. Here are new Cornish legends, in elegant Celtic verse with fluent English translations.
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Poems in Cornish
Here are new Cornish legends, in elegant Celtic verse with fluent English translations
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