Donald R. Rawe

Donald R. Rawe (1930–2018) was from Padstow and founded the Cornish publishing house Lodenek Press in 1970. As well as being a publisher and poet, he was also an historian and folklorist. He was the author of a number of dramas, stories and poems on Cornish themes, including An Skyla dhe Vos (The Reason for Being), Pysadow rak Kernow yn Vledhen 2000 (Prayer for Cornwall in the Year 2000) and Geryow Kernewek (Cornish Words). The poem is translated by Tim Saunders, whose books included The High Tide: Collected Poems in Cornish 1974–1999 (1999), The Wheel: An Anthology of Modern Poetry in Cornish, 1850–1980 (1999) and Nothing Broken: Recent Poetry in Cornish (2006).