Alan M. Kent
Alan M. Kent (born 1967, St Austell, Cornwall) is a Cornish poet, novelist, dramatist, author and editor of a number of works on Cornish and Anglo-Cornish literature.
Selected works
Creative writing
- Proper Job, Charlie Curnow!
- Electric Pastyland
- Love and Seaweed
- Looking at the Mermaid
- Nativitas Christi / The Nativity: a new Cornish mystery play
- Oogly es Sin: The Lamentable Ballad of Anthony Payne, Cornish Giant[1]
- The Tin Violin – The Adventures of Joseph Emidy: a Cornish Tale.
- Surfing Tommies
- The Cult of Relics a 2010 novel in a bilingual format, with a Cornish-language translation, Devocyon dhe Greryow, by Nicholas Williams.
Scholarly work
- 1998: "Wives, Mothers and Sisters": feminism, literature and women writers in Cornwall. Newmill: Patten Press in association with the Hypatia Trust ISBN 1872229336
- 2000: Voices from West Barbary: an anthology of Anglo-Cornish poetry 1549-1928; edited with an introduction by Alan M. Kent (companion volume to The Dreamt Sea, 2004)
- 2000: Looking at the Mermaid: a reader in Cornish literature 900–1900. London: Francis Boutle ISBN 1903427010
- 2000: The Literature of Cornwall: continuity, identity, difference, 1000-2000. Bristol: Redcliffe Press ISBN 1900178281
- 2002: Pulp Methodism: the Lives & Literature of Silas, Joseph & Salome Hocking. Cornish Hillside ISBN 978-1-900147-24-8
- 2004: The Dreamt Sea: an anthology of Anglo-Cornish poetry 1928-2004. London: Francis Boutle ISBN 1903427223 (companion volume to Voices from West Barbary, 2000)
- 2005: Ordinalia: the Cornish mystery play cycle; a verse translation. London: Francis Boutle
ISBN 1903427274
References
- ^ "Oogly as Sin". http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2007/06/07/localradio_radiodrama_feature.shtml.
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Poet and scholar |
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