Manx Poetry
Manx poets, writers and musicians have all drawn on the distinctive images, language and 'dark sentiments' ingrained by our ancestors, most notably the Manx National Poet T.E.BROWN (1830-1897) who was widely regarded as one of the finest poets of the Victorian age, famous for evoking the lives of the ordinary people, farmers and fishermen of his homeland. His strongly dialectal work is best read aloud and he would probably be intrigued by the current renaissance of poetry at 'poetry and pints' evenings... A number of successful novelists have found the Isle of Man's peace, quiet and - more recently - beneficial tax laws, an ideal environment for writing, although surprisingly few base their actual stories on the Island itself. The most famous to do so was the naturalised Manxman SIR HALL CAINE (1853-1931) who sold over ten million novels, translated into twenty languages, and whose book 'The Manxman' was used as the basis for the last silent movie made by Alfred Hitchcock.
Poetry