Tim Saunders

{{Short description|Cornish poet}}

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| birth_place = St Tudy, Cornwall,[https://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/connected/stories/gwennointuneincornish.shtml BBC – Cornwall – Connected – Gwenno in tune] England

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| occupation = Writer and poet

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• Lyn Mererid
• Helen Ceridwen Price

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| children = Gwenno Saunders
Ani Saunders
Meirion Carwyn Saunders

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Tim Saunders is a Cornish poet and journalist primarily writing in the Cornish language who also writes in the Welsh, Irish, and Breton languages. He is resident in Cardiff but is of Cornish descent. He is a literary historian and editor of 'The Wheel' – an anthology of modern poetry in Cornish 1850–1980. High Tide is a collection of his own poems in Cornish from the years 1974 to 1999.[http://www.francisboutle.co.uk/booklist/hightide/rvhigh.htm Tim Saunders] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070908025053/http://www.francisboutle.co.uk/booklist/hightide/rvhigh.htm |date=8 September 2007 }}[https://web.archive.org/web/20120402104359/http://www.molossus.co/poetry/3-cornish-poems/ » 3 Cornish Poems »] He was made bard of the Gorsedh Kernow in 1998, taking the bardic name {{lang|kw|Bardh Gwerin}} (Poet of the People).{{Cite web |trans-title=Alphabetic list of all Bards by Bardic Name |title=Henwyn bardhek pub Bardh oll yn aray abecedari |url=https://gorsedhkernow.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Bardic-Roll-Alphabetic-by-Bardic-Name-April-2023.pdf |website=gorsedhkernow.org.uk |date=2020 |access-date=22 April 2023}}

Tim's daughters, Gwenno and Ani Saunders, were formerly singers with the British indie pop girl group The Pipettes, with Gwenno also playing the keyboards, and are now solo artists.