Dear Charles,
It's been a busy few days. I had mum and dad up and they asked a lot of questions about you and your poetry. I recited "Who" to them, which I've just about got by heart now – looong pauses between verses, though, which made it almost feel as ... Read More
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Dear Charles,
Thanks for letting me borrow your house. Honestly it feels like you'll be back any moment! I know I said I came with a cat; I'm sorry I didn't bring him after all. He looked so settled where he was, I couldn't bring myself to uproot him. And I ... Read More
October 10, 2018Jennifer McDerra
Like leaving, departure is as much concerned with beginnings as it is with endings.
I feel sad to leave this quiet house, but I’m lucky to be beginning a relationship with North Cornwall, The Charles Causley Trust, and Causley’s work, and I’m going to be back in a number of capacities ... Read More
August 21, 2018Jennifer McDerra
To navigate a place is to traverse it, to propel oneself through it, to make one’s own way. It requires agency and decision-making as a path is chosen (often around and between obstacles and boundaries). Navigation involves weaving and intermingling with place; forking and delineating. Originally the word was used ... Read More
August 7, 2018Jennifer McDerra
If you thought Cyprus Well was just for writers, think again...Launceston artist, Karen Howse, spent 14 days at Cyprus Well as Artist in Residence during Charles Causley’s 100th birthday year and was present during the birthday celebrations on 24th August 2017.
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July 31, 2018Jennifer McDerra
As part of my time in Launceston College, I had to apply somewhere for work experience. I remembered having an encounter with the Causley Trust before in late 2016, during a Charles Causley Festival, where I spoke to Jen McDerra. I’d always been interested in poetry and writing in general, ... Read More
July 6, 2018Jennifer McDerra
I’m now three weeks in to this three-month residency and have been sufficiently immersed in the places and the stories about the places to at least be orientated – to have found my bearings. Orientation is the beginning of a journey – a looking eastwards for the sunrise. It is ... Read More
July 3, 2018Jennifer McDerra
The Charles Causley Trust are celebrating after securing a further round of funding from Arts Council England to continue to celebrate and promote the legacy of Charles Causley, as well as promote poetry and writing in the community and region where he lived, was inspired and worked. Causley may have ... Read More
April 19, 2018Jennifer McDerra
Tomorrow night (Thursday 13th July) we will be gearing up for the latest Centenary celebration in the form of a musical and poetry event called ‘Charles Causley: A Musical Celebration’. Our writer in residence Cahal Dallat had this to say about ... Read More
July 12, 2017Hannah Stamp
Several weeks ago we announced a rare opportunity to visit an ancient Cornish garden on Sunday, May 21, when Penheale Manor at Egloskerry, near Launceston, will open its gates. Penheale house and garden were renovated in the 1920s under the direction of Colonel Norman ... Read More
May 8, 2017Hannah Stamp
When I began working for the Charles Causley Trust in September of last year, I was also beginning the third and final year of my degree in English and Creative Writing at Plymouth University. I was attracted to what was initially ... Read More
March 15, 2017Hannah Stamp
The Seasons in North Cornwall
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O Spring has set off her green fuses
Down by the Tamar today,
And careless, like tide-marks, the hedges,
Are bursting with almond and may.
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Here lie I waiting for old summer,
A ... Read More
March 21, 2016Jennifer McDerra