Padstow's Obby Oss
and May Day Festivities
by Donald R. Rawe
Francis Boutle Publishers
ISBN 978 1 903427 37 1
Paperback 34 pages
Price per copy including postage: UK £5 95 Worldwide £7.95
The book
Francis Boutle Publishers and Lodenek Press have reprinted Donald R. Rawe’s classic study first published in the 1970s of Pastow’s Obby Oss and May Day festivities. The book contains many rare photographs of the celebrations as well as a well-researched commentary on its history and significance. Rawe, a Padstonian himself, has produced a fascinating study of this enduring tradition.
Other books on the folk tradition
John Clare and the folk tradition by George Deacon
Step Change: New views on traditional dance edited by Georgina Boyes
Other books on Cornish poetry and literature
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The Dreamt Sea – an Anthology of Anglo-Cornish Poetry 1928–2004
The Turn of the Ermine – A Bilingual Anthology of Breton Literature
The High Tide – collected poems in Cornish 1974–1999 by Tim Saunders
Inside Merlin's Cave – A Cornish Arthurian reader 1000–2000
Looking at the Mermaid – A Cornish reader 900– 1900
Nothing Broken – Recent Poems in Cornish
Oogly es Sin – The Lamentable Ballad of Anthony Payne, Cornish Giant
Ordinalia – The Cornish Mystery Play Cycle
The Wheel – an anthology of modern poetry in Cornish 1850–1980
Voices from West Barbary – an anthology of Anglo-Cornish poetry 1549–1928
