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.