This is a compelling collection, furious and lyrical, which says much about the relationship between the writer and the Cornish nation.
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The poems in this long-awaited collection celebrate the author’s reassessment of Cornish identity in the light of his own experience as a lifelong activist, with reflections on the Cornish language and the Cornu-English dialect, as well as subject matter drawn from his personal life.
The book contains a sequence of poems translated into Cornish by Nicholas Williams.
‘Alan M. Kent is the true voice of Cornwall: Cornish clay shaped into a thing of beauty’
– Joan Beal, University of Sheffield
The product of twenty years’ work, this volume draws together poems from collections published between 1990 and 2010.
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.
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.
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.
Inside Merlin’s Cave contains Numerous poems, commentaries, prophecies and plays, including the full text of Thomas Hardy’s Queen of Cornwall, that establish Cornwall not just as the birthplace of King Arthur but as a source of all Arthurian themes.
This collection of plays sheds new light on Charles Causley’ literary work and reveals him to be a fine playwright with an important place in British theatrical history.
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.
Alan M. Kent’s play explores the life of the seventeenth-century ‘Cornish Giant’, Anthony Payne, in a series of hilarious and touching reminiscences.
