Tim Saunders is a Cornish poet and journalist primarily writing in the

Cornish language Cornish (Standard Written Form: or , ) is a Southwestern Brittonic language, Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family. Along with Welsh language, Welsh and Breton language, Breton, Cornish descends from Common Brittonic, ...

who also writes in the Welsh, Irish, and

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languages. He is resident in Cardiff but is of Cornish descent. He is a literary historian and editor of 'The Wheel' – an anthology of modern poetry in Cornish 1850–1980. ''High Tide'' is a collection of his own poems in Cornish from the years 1974 to 1999. He was made bard of the

Gorsedh Kernow Gorsedh Kernow (Cornish Gorsedd) is a non-political Cornish organisation, based in Cornwall, United Kingdom, which exists to maintain the national Celtic spirit of Cornwall. It is based on the Welsh-based Gorsedd, which was founded by Iolo Mo ...

in 1998, taking the bardic name (Poet of the People). Tim's daughters,

Gwenno Gwenno Mererid Saunders (born 23 May 1981) is a Welsh-Cornish musician, known mononymously as Gwenno. She has released three critically acclaimed albums as a solo artist: Welsh Music Prize winner '' Y Dydd Olaf'' (2014); '' Le Kov'' (2018), her ...

and Ani Saunders, were formerly singers with the British

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, with Gwenno also playing the keyboards, and are now solo artists.

Standard Written Form

Saunders has spoken out against the development of a

Standard Written Form The Standard Written Form or SWF () of the Cornish language is an orthography standard that is designed to "provide public bodies and the educational system with a universally acceptable, inclusive, and neutral orthography". It was the outcome of ...

of Cornish, saying

Selected list of works

* 1977: ''Teithiau (Cyfres y beirdd answyddogol)''. Y Lolfa. (Author) * 1985: ''Gohebydd Arbennig''. Y Lolfa. (Author) * 1986: ''Cliff Preis'': Darlithydd Coleg. Y Lolfa. (Author) * 1994: ''Saer Swyn a Storiau Eraill o Gernyw''. Gomer Press. (Author) * 1999: ''The Wheel'': An Anthology of Modern Poetry in Cornish 1850–1980. Francis Boutle Publishers. (Editor) * 2003: ''Gol Snag Bud Ha Gwersyow Whath''. Spyrys a Gernow. (Author) * 2003: ''Cornish is Fun'': An Informal Course in Living Cornish. Y Lolfa. (Translator) * 2006: ''Nothing Broken'': Recent Poetry in Cornish. Francis Boutle Publishers. (Editor)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saunders, Tim Writers from Cardiff Gwenno Saunders 21st-century Irish-language poets Bards of Gorsedh Kernow British male writers Breton-language writers Cornish-language writers Irish-language writers Welsh-language writers Cornish nationalists Cornish-speaking people Poets from Cornwall Living people Year of birth missing (living people)