About This Book
The collection assembles short lyrical and narrative poems that evoke coastal Cornwall through local speech, seafaring scenes, and village domestic life. Many pieces use dialect to portray fishermen, market activity, and the hazards and harvests of the sea, while others shift into reflective lyricism about aging, memory, and home. The poems alternate humor and pathos, ranging from lively hauling and harbour work to quiet fireside and garden moments, and often focus on communal rhythms, seasonal change, and the small pleasures and hardships of provincial existence.
About the Author
You May Also Like
6 picks
"England and Yesterday": A Book of Short Poems
by Louise Imogen Guiney
"Excelsior"
by Bret Harte
"Horse Sense" in Verses Tense
by Walt Mason
"I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919
by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
"Smiles": A Book of Recitations for Girls
by Alice Lewis Richards
"Soitto on suruista tehty" / Historiallisia runoelmia: I. Pilatus. II. Piispa Tuomas.
by Antti Mäkinen