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Cornish Modern Poetries edited by Ella Frears and Aaron Kent brings the editors' electric luminosity and bruised tenderness into play as guides. This ground-breaking anthology celebrates the blossoming of contemporary Cornish poetry, featuring luminaries such as Pascale Petit, Jennifer Edgecombe, John Wedgwood Clarke, and Penelope Shuttle alongside many more. Cornish Modern Poetries captures a duality which has made Cornwall an ice-cream famous tourist destination while housing some of the most deprived neighbourhoods in Western Europe. The anthology features poems in English and Kernewek, keeping the Cornish flame burning, into an uncertain future.

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Aaron Kent was born in Redruth, Cornwall. He is a working-class writer and publisher, and runs the Michael Marks Publishing Award winning press Broken Sleep Books. Aaron was awarded the Awen medal from the Bards of Cornwall for his poetry pamphlet The Last Hundred. His work has been praised by Gillian Clarke, J. H. Prynne, Andrew McMillan, Andre Bagoo, Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo, and John McCulough. His recent books include the full-length collection Angels the Size of Houses, and a collaboration with surrealist artist John Welson, A Requiem for Bioluminescence. Ella Frears was born in Truro and grew up in St Ives. Her collection Shine, Darling (Offord Road Books, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. She has been poet in residence for Tate Britain, the National Trust, Royal Holloway University physics department, K6 Gallery, and the John Hansard Gallery where she wrote I AM THE MOTHER CAT (Rough Trade Books, 2021). Ella's poems about the St Ives Modernists were on show at Tate St Ives. In 2022, Ella was named the first ever Poet in Residence for the Dartington Trust's gardens.

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