Donald Ryley Rawe (1930–2018) was a Cornish publisher, dramatist, novelist, and

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

. Born in

Padstow Padstow (; kw, Lannwedhenek) is a town, civil parishes in England, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England. The town is situated on the west bank of the River Camel estuary approximately northwest of Wadebridge, ...

in 1930, he has lived most of his life near the northern coast. He became a member of

Gorseth 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 Mor ...

in 1970, under the

Bardic name A bardic name (, ) is a pseudonym used in Wales, Cornwall, or Brittany by poets and other artists, especially those involved in the eisteddfod movement. The Welsh term bardd ("poet") originally referred to the Welsh poets of the Middle Ages, who m ...

of ''Scryfer Lanwednoc'' ('Writer of Padstow'). He died in 2018, at the age of 87.

Works

*''Gorseth Byrth Kernow: Bards of the Gorsedd of Cornwall 1928-1967'', Penzance, 1967.

References

1930 births 2018 deaths People from Padstow Bards of Gorsedh Kernow Dramatists and playwrights from Cornwall Novelists from Cornwall Poets from Cornwall {{cornwall-stub