Cornish Catches, and Other Verses
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Cornish speech gives Bernard Moore's poems their rhythm and much of their humour. A schoolboy weighs classroom lessons against the useful things he could learn aboard a fishing boat, while John Pengelly's grocery becomes a small portrait of parish life. In "Gardens," cultivated flower beds give way to a speaker's love of hedgerows, lanes and moorland. These verses place everyday work, local pride and courtship within the landscape of Cornwall.
The collection also makes room for tenderness and loss. A father's stern treatment of his son prompts memories of his own dangerous childhood adventures, and "Cornish Comfort" considers how a mother consoles a grieving child. Elsewhere, recollections of a harbour cottage preserve its stone kitchen floor, crockery and familiar household sounds. Readers interested in regional language will find poems shaped by spoken voices, with coastal life and family feeling close together.
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- Author
- Bernard Moore
- Pages
- 62
- Language
- English
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- Poetry
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