Les Merton

Who is Les Merton?

Les Merton is a Cornish self-published writer from Medlyn Moor, Cornwall, England, UK, now living in Redruth. Educated at Halwin School, and employed in various ways in his life, he has written in a range of genres including humour and Cornish dialect.

In 2002 he founded Poetry Cornwall / Bardhonyaeth Kernow, of which he remains the editor. In the same year his poem "Gud News" won the Cornish Gorsedd, and in 2004 he was made a bard of that organisation for his services to Cornish literature, which have been described as "new investigations of Cornish experience". His bardic name is Map Hallow.

His guide to the Cornish dialect entitled Oall Rite Me Ansum?: a salute to Cornish Dialect was published in 2003.