Author, playwright, poet and publisher 1930-2018
Donald Ryley Rawe was born in Padstow, where he lived for most of his life.
He wrote about Cornish history, places and folklore and started up Lodenek Press in 1972, which published a wide range of books on Cornish subjects.
A founding and valued member of the Cornish Heritage Trust, and member of Mebwyn Kernow, he was one of founding fathers of present day Cornish identity.
He wrote and published ‘Traditional Cornish Stories and Rhymes’, 1972, and gave it to CHT to publish on their website.
https://www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/learn/resources/stories-and-rhymes/
He was made a bard, Scryfer Landwednoc, in 1972.
‘Courageous, relentless and lifelong advocate of Cornish distinctiveness’ Western Morning News
Petroc of Cornwall, 1970, play
Trials of St Piran, 1971, play
Geraint, the last of the Arthurians, 1972.
Traditional Cornish Stories and Rhymes 1972
The Mermaids of Padstow, stories and poems, 1983
and more…
Photo of Donald Rawe meeting Nellie Slogget 2017, two Padstow storytellers.
