Misplaced Pages

Haldreyn

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Cornish poet, linguist and painter
This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.
Find sources: "Haldreyn" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Haldreyn is the bardic name of William Morris (born 1937). He is a Cornish poet, linguist, and painter. Haldreyn was an original member of Kesva an Taves Kernewek and is a bard of the Gorseth Kernow, appointed in 1966.

Career

Haldreyn was the editor of Gorsedd Poems in 1983 (Truran). He was the compiler of Cornish Dictionary Supplement Geryow Dyvers in 1995 (Agan Tavas). Examples of his poems are in The Dreamt Sea (Francis Boutle Publishers). An example of his short stories is After the Rain in Scryfa, Vol.9,2007, ed. Simon Parker

he was the creator of the style of painting called Transformal Art. Also surrealist and landscape painter.

Selected bibliography

  • Gorseth Byrth Kernow: Bards of the Gorsedd of Cornwall 1928-1967, Penzance, 1967.
  • An Lef Kernewek, Redruth, 1965
  • An Lef Kernewek, Redruth, 1969

References

  1. "New bards 1960–69". Gorseth Kernow. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.


Stub icon

This Cornwall article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article about a poet from the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: