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.
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- Author
- Bernard Moore
- Reading time
- About 40 minutes
- Pages
- 62
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Poetry
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