As St Piran's Day draws close, many of us will be thinking of the past but this is also a time to think of the future.
The Wheel, an anthology of verse in Cornish covering the period 1850-1980 is selling well and preparations are in hand for its successor.
Nothing Broken will cover the period 1981-2000. and some of our best contemporary poets have already sent in samples of their work. Graham Sandercock, Cadwur James, Richard Jenkin and Philip Knight are only a few of our leading writers who have been kind enough to contribute.
It is essential to include the best of contemporary verse in Cornish.
Nothing Broken will be a milestone in the development of our culture and will show our descendants what we were capable of.
I hope that any of your readers who write poetry in our language will join our friends in this exciting project and send in those poems by which they would like to be remembered by future generations.
In the spirit of St Piran's Day, I offer this little poem about one of our national treasures
WORTH LOG PYRAN
Kÿzlevyn kan war-barth yn lu
dhÿ'nn log ma y'fvu ann grows wolow glan
a'loskas Pyran a'nn meyn kalez du.
AT SAINT PIRANS ORATORY
Let us join together in a host
and give voice to a song at the oratory
where Piran burnt the cross of bright light
from the hard black stones
Tim Saunders
Cymru
Wales