Alan M. Kent
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Alan M. Kent is a Cornish poet, novelist, dramatist, author and editor of a number of works on Cornish and Anglo-Cornish
Anglo-Cornish
Anglo-Cornish is a dialect of English spoken in Cornwall by Cornish people. Dialectal English spoken in Cornwall is to some extent influenced by Cornish grammar, and often includes words derived from the Cornish language...

 literature.

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
  • The Tin Violin – The Adventures of Joseph Emidy: a Cornish Tale.
  • Surfing Tommies
    Surfing Tommies
    Surfing Tommies is a 2009 play by the Cornish author Alan M. Kent. It follows the lives of three members of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on a journey from the mines of Cornwall to the fields of Flanders, where they learn to surf from South African troops...

  • 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
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