Far Western Horizons is a bard’s luminous tribute to the Atlantic edge — a powerful blend of poetry, folklore, and maritime history from West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. John Penrose, weaves formal verse, dialect, Kernewek, and lyrical prose into a tapestry that captures the soul of a region shaped by the western ocean, salt air, granite, and legend. Moving between lived history and mythic inheritance, Penrose recounts the 1855 clearance of Samson Island, the haunting 1977 RNLI attempt to save Enfant de Bretagne, and the timeless world of saints, giants, mariners, and Buccas. His work balances deep pathos with the weathered humour of coastal life, revealing a culture where tragedy and mischief walk side by side. This collection showcases remarkable range — from traditional rhyme and Cornish dialect to Kernewek (Cornish) verse and innovative pieces like The Dawn Reckoning, where trigonometry becomes a tool for reading the sea. Much more than a regional anthology, Far Western Horizons is a lantern held to a threshold place: where sea meets land, memory meets myth, and stories breathe across generations. Penrose offers an intimate portrait of the far western world, as shifting and luminous as Scillonian and Cornish light itself.