Taran Spalding-Jenkin is a poet, performer, translator and native Kernewek speaker with a background in drama and folk tradition. Their work explores the spaces between identities, disability, queerness, and hireth - the longing for a lost home or one which has never existed. Taran is a co-runner of Bristol's music and poetry party Tonic, a bilingual workshop leader, and has won awards from Gorsedh Kernow for poetry and for BBC radio project A Shanty For Cornish Youth.
Spalding-Jenkin's deep longing for place uproots a once-buried
language that becomes the physical embodiment to the poet's
homesickness. A ground-breaking debut poetry pamphlet in which the
unwellness of body and mind can only be freed by accepting the
border itself is liminal.- Jennifer Edgecombe, The Grief of the
Sea
Taran's refined yet feral magic exists in finding two body's worth
of mouth under a single tongue, with the medicalised body acting as
a proxy for a place rich in the history of the personal & the
political. Existing somewhere between Glen Hansard & Tolkein &
beyond the river Tamar, Taran is a subtle orator translating the
grandeur of the horizon & all its infinite possibilities into an
invitation in an outstretched palm. The text in Kernewek grants
context & space for the poems & placing them firmly in the folklore
Taran's work is fluent in.- Sam J. Grudgings, The Bible II
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