Wilfred Melville Bennetto (1902–1994) was a Cornish

Cornish people

The Cornish are a people associated with Cornwall, a county and Duchy in the south-west of the United Kingdom that is seen in some respects as distinct from England, having more in common with the other Celtic parts of the United Kingdom such as Wales, as well as with other Celtic nations in Europe...

 poet and novelist.

He was elected a member of Gorseth Kernow

Gorseth Kernow

Gorseth Kernow is a non-political Cornish organisation, which exists to maintain the national Celtic spirit of Cornwall in the United Kingdom.-History:...

 under the Bardic name

Bardic name

A bardic name is a pseudonym, used in Wales, Cornwall and Brittany, by poets and other artists, especially those involved in the eisteddfod movement....

 of Abransek ('Bushy-browed One') in 1968.

His poetry celebrated popular contemporary figures in Cornish life as well as the historical and mythological characters favoured in Cornish poetry at the time. He wrote An Gurun Wosek a Geltya ('The Bloody Crown of Celtia'), the first full-length novel in Cornish

Cornish language

Cornish is a Brythonic Celtic language and a recognised minority language of the United Kingdom. Along with Welsh and Breton, it is directly descended from the ancient British language spoken throughout much of Britain before the English language came to dominate...

. It is written from a monarchist perspective, it is a romantic thriller set against the background of contemporary subversion and conflict in the Celtic countries.

Publications as Melville Bennetto

• An Lef Kernewek (1969)
• Kernow (1974).
• Whethlow Pymp Mynysen Penzance :Printed by Headland Printing (1974)
• Whethlow Kernewek (Cornish Stories). (1978)
• And Shall Tregeale Die?, Headland Pubns, Penzance (1979) ISBN 0905920090
• An Gurun Wosek a Geltya, Dyllansow Truran (1984) ISBN 185022000X
• The Saints of Cornwall: and Other Poems Dyllansow Truran (1986) ISBN 1850220239