The Maker The Charles Causley Literary Blog

Home, by Victoria Dohring

Victoria won third place in the 5-11 years category in our 2022 Young People’s Poetry Competition.   If I ask...

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October 6, 2022

Loving an Introvert, by Imogen Beaumont

Imogen won second place in the 16-18 years category in our 2022 Young People’s Poetry Competition.   the television blares...

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October 6, 2022

Of Us, American Dreams, by Amy (Seohyun) Shin

Amy (Seohyun) won third place in the 12-15 years category in our 2022 Young People’s Poetry Competition.   For her ...

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October 6, 2022

Home, by Mahek Ansari

Mahek won third place in the 16-18 years category in our 2022 Young People’s Poetry Competition.   I’ve never felt...

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October 6, 2022

Hometown, by Grace Hussey

Grace won the first place prize in the 16-18 years category in our 2022 Young People’s Poetry Competition. “Because the...

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October 6, 2022

Our Gang HQ, by Faith Lydall

Faith won first place in the 5-11 years category in our 2022 Young People’s Poetry Competition.   Our house is...

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October 6, 2022

Home of a Reader, by Elizabeth George

Elizabeth won second place in the 5-11 years category in our 2022 Young People’s Poetry Competition.   A home is...

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October 6, 2022

This isn’t Home, by Sofia Stamtsi-dobson

Sofia won the joint-first place prize in the 12-15 years category in our 2022 Young People’s Poetry Competition.   hesitantly...

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October 6, 2022

A Moor’s Home, by Martha Blue

Martha won joint-first in our 2022 Young People’s Poetry Competition.   dismal plains, grassandpeat storm-blast-sog-bogged, sweep flat beneath shockedbooming dins;...

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October 6, 2022

People not Places, by Ruth Dunn

Ruth won the Cornwall prize in our 2022 Young People’s Poetry Competition.   Homes are in people not places, Feelings...

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October 6, 2022

Causley and Folklore: Ghosts, Fairies and Mermaids

Born and bred in Launceston, Cornwall, Charles Causley had the fair county in his blood. Causley’s poetry was seeped in...

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October 3, 2022

In Conversation with a Musician: What do the arts mean to you?

Em Craig is currently studying Jazz Saxophone at The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Aspiring for a career...

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September 26, 2022
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