Mick Paynter
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Michael Kenneth (Mick) Paynter (1948, St Ives, Cornwall) is a Cornish civil servant, trade union activist, and poet.
Apart from a period of study at the University of Newcastle, his home has always been in Saint Ives.
He is a member of Gorseth Kernow, and was initiated as a bard in 2003 on passing a Cornish language examination after four years of study, largely conducted during train journeys as a trade union representative. He has been Deputy Grand Bard since September 2006 under the Bardic name Skogynn Pryv (Worm's Fool). The name derives from the nickname of a smuggler's assistant in a local story involving outwitting a Customs man, and was chosen as appropriate as he worked 32 years in the Inland Revenue.
As well as publication in anthologies, he has written three collections of poetry in Cornish with English translation, and is Cornish Language Editor of Poetry Cornwall (Bardhonyeth Kernow).
His poetry combines the easy flow of colloquial Cornish with a variety of influences ranging from Afro-American song to Primo Levi and early Celtic literature.[citation needed] He is a frequent contributor to magazines such as Scryfa and Poetry Cornwall / Bardhonyaeth Kernow.
[edit] Publications
- Bardhonyeth Kernow / Poetry Cornwall, 2003
- Scryfa, Callington, 2003 (story in anthology)[1]
- And all the World Our Patch, Palores Publications, Redruth, 2004
- A Crowd of Banners
- Kernow Bys Vykken (Cornwall Forever) - 2007 collection set to music[2]
[edit] References
- 'Worm's fool' to be the next deputy grand bard, Western Morning News, Plymouth, August 29, 2006
[edit] External links
- Mick Paynter, Gallery of Grand Bards, Gorseth Kernow
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