Wilfred Bennetto

Wilfred Melville Bennetto (1902-1994), was a Cornish poet and novelist.

He was elected a member of Gorseth Kernow under the Bardic name of Abransek ('Bushy-browed One') in 1968 .

His poetry celebrated popular contemporary figures in Cornish life as well as the historical and mythological characters favoured in Cornish poetry at the time. He wrote An Gurun Wosek a Geltya ('The Bloody Crown of Celtia'), the first full-length novel in Cornish. It is written from a monarchist perspective, it is a romantic thriller set against the background of contemporary subversion and conflict in the Celtic countries.

Publications as Melville Bennetto

• An Lef Kernewek (1969)
• Kernow (1974).
• Whethlow Pymp Mynysen Penzance :Printed by Headland Printing (1974)
• Whethlow Kernewek (Cornish Stories). (1978)
• And Shall Tregeale Die?, Publisher: Headland Pubns, Penzance (1979) ISBN 0905920090
• An Gurun Wosek a Geltya, Truran (1984) ISBN 185022000X
• The Saints of Cornwall: And Other Poems Dyllanslow Truran (1986) ISBN 1850220239

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