The Cult of Relics: Devocyon dhe Greryow

by Alan M. Kent, Nicholas Williams (Translator)

"The Cult of Relics" is a new novel by Alan M. Kent (author of "Proper Job, Charlie Curnow!" and "Electric Pastyland"), presented in a bilingual format, with a Cornish-language translation, "Devocyon dhe Greryow", by Nicholas Williams. The story is set in Western Britain in the mid-1990s just after the Gulf War, and tells of three extraordinary of the New-Age Traveller Jude Fox, of the American photojournalist Eddie Hopkins, and of the Cornish-born archaeologist Robert Bolitho. The three characters discover a set of connections between them, stretching back to the early seventeenth century. Kent's intriguing story weaves together their disparate lives with that of the mysterious "Stranger", whose preservation of a curious holy relic becomes a focus for their collective need for communion and hope. -- "The Cult of Relics" yw novel nowyth dhyworth Alan M. Kent (auctour a "Proper Job, Charlie Curnow!" hag a "Electric Pastyland"), hag yma va dyllys gans trailyans Kernowek Nicholas Williams, "Devoycyon dhe Greryow". An whedhel-ma a gebmer le i'n West a Vreten Veur in cres an bledhydnyow mil, naw cans, peswar ugans ha deg, termyn cot warlergh Bresel an Morbleg. Yth eson ny ow metya ino gans try ferson, meur a Jûd Fox, Viajyores a'n Oos Nowyth; Eddie Hopkins, an fôtojornalyst Amerycan; ha'n hendhyscansyth dhia Gernow, Robert Bolitho. Ymowns y aga thry ow dyscudha bos kescolm intredhans dhyworth bledhydnyow avarr an seytegves cansvledhen. I'n whedhel hudol-ma yma Kent ow qwia warbarth bêwnans kenyver onen anodhans gans an "Stranjer" kevrînek. Crer sans ha stranj re beu gwethys ganso ev, ha'n dra-na yw an crespoynt a'n othem a'n jeves kettep onen a gowethyans ha govenek.

438 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2010

About the author

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).