Alan Mark Kent

Alan Mark Kent was born in St Austell, Cornwall, and studied at the Universities of Cardiff and Exeter.

He is a lecturer in Literature for the Open University in South West Britain, and a Visiting Lecturer in Celtic Literature at the University of La Coruña, Galicia. As well as being a prize-winning poet, novelist and dramatist, he has written extensively on Cornwall and Celtic Studies. He is the author of The Literature of Cornwall: Continuity, Identify, Difference 1000-2000 (2000) and Ordinalia: The Cornish Mystery Play Cycle – A Verse Translation (2005). He co-edited Looking at the Mermaid: A Reader in Cornish Literature 900-1900 (2000) and The Busy Earth: A Reader in Global Cornish Literature 1700-2000 (2008), and The Francis Boutle Books of Cornish Short Stories (2010).

His poetry includes Stannary Parliament (2006), Druid Offsetting (2008) and The Hope of Place: Selected Poems / Ow Qwetyas Tyller: Dêwys Bardhonegow 1990-2010 will be published later this year.

His novels include Proper Job, Charlie Curnow! (2005), Electric Pastyland (2007) and The Cult of Relics / Devovyon dhe Greryow (2010). His latest novel, Voodoo Pilchard will be published in 2010. Recent drama includes Nativitas Christi (2006), Oogly es Sin (2007), The Tin Violin (2008), and Surfing Tommies (2009).

His latest academic work is The Theatre of Cornwall: Space, Place, Performance (2010).