Tim Saunders is a Cornish poet and journalist primarily writing in the Cornish language who also writes in the

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, 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 musician, known by the stage name Gwenno. She has released three critically-acclaimed albums as a solo artist: Welsh Music Prize winner'' Y Dydd Olaf'' (2014); ''Le Kov'' (2018), her first a ...

and

Ani Saunders The Pipettes were a British indie pop girl group formed in 2003 in Brighton by Robert "Monster Bobby" Barry. The group has released two albums, '' We Are The Pipettes'', and '' Earth vs. The Pipettes'' and released numerous singles to support ...

, were formerly singers with the British

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girl group

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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 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 Tim 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)