Alan M. Kent

This is an accepted version of this page Alan M. Kent (1967 – 20 July 2022) was a Cornish poet,[1] dramatist, novelist, editor, academic and teacher.

He was the author of a number of works on Cornish and Anglo-Cornish literature.

Kent was born in 1967 in St Austell, Cornwall and died after a short illness on 20 July 2022, aged 55.

[2] In August 1997 The Times reported that poems by Kent had copied from the Scottish Gaelic language poet Derick Thomson.

Kent had apparently copied a number of poems and just changed the names of places and people, locating them in Cornwall, instead of Scotland.

Anthony Payne is the subject of Alan M. Kent's play Oogly Es Sin .