Author:   Jack Clemo.
Publisher:  Francis Boutle Publishers.
ISBN 978-0-9935344-6-1.
Format:  211 pages.
Description: Edited by Luke Thompson. ‘Jack Clemo (1916-1994) is best known as a poet – one of the most extraordinary poets of the twentieth century – but he began his literary career writing comic short stories in Cornish dialect. A Proper Mizz-Maze brings all twenty-one of these dialect tales together for the first time. Set around the villages, lanes and works of Clemo’s native china clay country in the 1930s, the stories of A Proper Mis-Maze are an intimate representation of everyday problems, romantic troubles, gossip and family feuds around Nanpean, Trethosa, St Dennis and Goonamaris. They record the landscape, culture and an underrepresented language form, and they do it in an attractively light-hearted way. These Cornish dialect tales are great fun to read aloud, and they also happen to have been written by one of Cornwall’s most remarkable literary talents.’ (Blurb)