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Article: Nothing Broken: Recent Poetry in Cornish.(Book review)
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- World Literature Today
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- September 1, 2007
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Nothing Broken: Recent Poetry in Cornish. Tim Saunders, ed. Alan Llwyd, pref. London. Francis Boutle. 2006.210 pages. 10.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-903427-30-4
NOTHING BROKEN picks up in 1980 where Tim Saunders's previous collection, The Wheel: An Anthology of Modern Poetry in Cornish, 1850-1980, leaves off. The 1980s were a crucial period for Cornish, as it was during this decade that alternate orthographies and ideological perspectives on the Cornish revival emerged, which greatly altered the direction of Cornish identity politics. Thirty writers and almost two hundred poems are included in this collection, including both newer and more established writers. ...