Tim Saunders is a Cornish language poet who also writes poetry and journalism in the Welsh, Irish, Breton and Cornish languages. He is resident in Cardiff but is of Cornish descent. He is a bard of the Gorseth Kernow, a literary historian and editor of ‘The Wheel’ – an anthology of modern poetry in Cornish 1850–1980.
Tim Saunders has brought us a poem of love and loss in which myth strives to give shape to unbearable memory.
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.
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.
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.