The Maker The Charles Causley Literary Blog

Sunday Roast by Charlie Jolley

We eat rain-soaked Steak Bakes on an alley down Canal street, cold meat gravy spilling out like a treasure chest....

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June 14, 2023

Slide by Alice Hudd

Trekking up the iron steps, Waiting in the queue, My turn.   Heart beating against my chest, Crouched on the...

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June 14, 2023

Memories of an Orange Tree by Charlie Harrison-Chu

I remember being a seed, A small hard waterdrop shape, Put in some soil, buried, and watered, And put into...

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June 14, 2023

Season’s Shedding by Mathias X

I’m looking for my bowl of roseleaves stained by Development. Static. Run your fingers through lighter petals as they unhinge...

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June 14, 2023

A Candle for Oma, by Emma Kurr

The reach of sun, attempt to Sleep deter In this golden, shadow’d basilica. Mother and me—for once we stay quiet,...

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June 14, 2023

My Memories of Burnside’ by Travis Surgeoner

Let this be home the house we forever had A box of lights, a jar of nails Cat’s bones and...

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June 14, 2023

Where do my memories go by Maya Pal

where do my memories go When I forget them?   Are they sucked up into my mouth And to they...

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June 14, 2023

The Memory Elephant by Louis Didizian

The memory elephant ambles back to its feeding grounds. Through the fig trees, it rambles, through clearings hung with facts...

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June 14, 2023

The Exodus by Scarlett Thursby-Attwood

the old Victorian house at the end of the street makes me think about you: its wooden beams creak and...

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June 14, 2023

How to write about commemoration

With it being 20 years since Charles Causley passed away, this month we are focusing on the theme of commemoration....

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June 9, 2023

Memory through Literature

With it being 20 years since Charles Causley passed away, it seemed appropriate to explore how memory is referenced through...

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June 7, 2023

The Causley Trust’s Summer of Literature

Attention writers!  We are back this summer celebrating literature! We are heading into this month with a call out for...

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June 1, 2023
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