Michael Kenneth (Mick) Paynter is a Cornish civil servant, trade union activist, and poet. Apart from a period of study at the University of Newcastle, his home has always been in Saint Ives. He is a member of Gorseth Kernow, and was initiated as a bard under the Bardic name Skogynn Pryv (Worm's Fool) in 2003 on passing a Cornish language examination after four years of study, largely conducted during train journeys as a trade union representative.

PropertyValue
dbpprop:abstract
  • Michael Kenneth (Mick) Paynter is a Cornish civil servant, trade union activist, and poet. Apart from a period of study at the University of Newcastle, his home has always been in Saint Ives. He is a member of Gorseth Kernow, and was initiated as a bard under the Bardic name Skogynn Pryv (Worm's Fool) in 2003 on passing a Cornish language examination after four years of study, largely conducted during train journeys as a trade union representative. The name derives from the nickname of a smuggler's assistant in a local story involving outwitting a Customs man, and was chosen as appropriate as he worked for 32 years in the Inland Revenue. He was Deputy Grand Bard from September 2006, and was installed as Grand Bard in September 2009. As well as contributions to anthologies, he has written three collections of poetry in Cornish with English translations, and is Cornish Language Editor of Poetry Cornwall (Bardhonyeth Kernow). His poetry combines the easy flow of colloquial Cornish with a variety of influences ranging from Afro-American song to Primo Levi and early Celtic literature. He is a frequent contributor to magazines such as Scryfa and Poetry Cornwall / Bardhonyaeth Kernow.
dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection
dbpprop:reference
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Michael Kenneth (Mick) Paynter is a Cornish civil servant, trade union activist, and poet. Apart from a period of study at the University of Newcastle, his home has always been in Saint Ives. He is a member of Gorseth Kernow, and was initiated as a bard under the Bardic name Skogynn Pryv (Worm's Fool) in 2003 on passing a Cornish language examination after four years of study, largely conducted during train journeys as a trade union representative.
rdfs:label
  • Mick Paynter
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:page
is owl:sameAs of