Tim Saunders
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CitizenshipBritish
OccupationsWriter and poet
Spouses
- Lyn Mererid
- Helen Ceridwen Price
Tim Saunders | |
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| Citizenship | British |
| Occupations | Writer and poet |
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| Children | Gwenno Saunders Ani Saunders Meirion Carwyn Saunders |
Tim Saunders is a Cornish poet and journalist primarily writing in the Cornish language who also writes in the Welsh, Irish, and Breton languages. He is resident in Cardiff but is of Cornish descent. He is a literary historian and editor of 'The Wheel' – an anthology of modern poetry in Cornish 1850–1980. High Tide is a collection of his own poems in Cornish from the years 1974 to 1999.[2][3] He was made bard of the Gorsedh Kernow in 1998, taking the bardic name Bardh Gwerin (Poet of the People).[4]
Tim's daughters, Gwenno and Ani Saunders, are musical artists who write and sing in Cornish, Welsh, and English. Gwenno was nominated for the Mercury Prize for her album Tresor (album) in 2022.
