Our 2023 Young People's Poetry Competition, with head judge David Devanny, is now open for entries! This year's theme will be MEMORY, a topic which particularly resonates with the Causley Trust this year as we mark 20 years since Charles Causley's passing in 2003.
Our 2023 competition is supported by Falmouth ... Read More
Our 2023 Young People's Poetry Competition will be launching on the 1st of February. Watch this space for when this year's theme and head judge are revealed!
The human imagination is our most powerful innate resource. We are born with an imagination that can be used to help or hinder us during our lives.
Most of us don 't even realise that we can utilise the imagination to improve our life and health and live more positively, day ... Read More
Time and the hour thinned away…(1)
…as I pass through 13th-century Southgate Arch and turn left at the 1930s Red Room Café down Angel Hill (2) – steep and narrow as in some Tuscan hillside villagio (where it would be Collina dell’Angelo) and across Dockacre Road, deeper yet, into the shady, ... Read More
The human imagination is our most powerful innate resource. We are born with an imagination that can be used to help or hinder us during our lives. Most of us don't even realise that we can utilise the imagination to improve our life and health and live more positively, day ... Read More
As the end of 2022 draws near, our team are reflecting on the work we have undertaken this past year. Though the last twelve months have flown by for us at The Charles Causley Trust, they have been full of activity. This year, we’ve hosted a range of events and ... Read More
Last Friday (4th of November 2022) marked nineteen years since the passing of Charles Causley. Arthur Wills, Town Archivist and former Mayor of Launceston, tells us about his memories of Charles and how his poems are records not only of his own life, but also of the history of Launceston.
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What an evening to be remembered! Beneath the shrouded mists of time in the historic town of Launceston, a night of Folklore and paranormal is celebrated through poetic verse, music, expert speakers, and ghostly walks. Around the Southwest of England and especially Cornwall, the land is steeped in Cornish mythology, ... Read More
*Please note this retreat is now fully booked.
Join award-winning poets Katrina Naomi and Fiona Benson from the 3rd-5th of February 2023 and develop your poetry at our residential weekend at the beautiful Trevadlock Manor, in the heart of the Cornish countryside near Launceston.
For full details, please read our digital ... Read More
Séan Hewitt, Head judge of this year’s Charles Causley International Poetry Competition, is an award-winning Poet. Born in Warrington in 1990, he received his PHD from Liverpool University on the works of ‘J.M Synge’. Other works include his debut pamphlet, Lantern (2019) which was short listed for The Michael Marks ... Read More
Join us at St Thomas's Church in Launceston on Friday 9th of December for an evening of festivity, with Charles Causley at its heart.
Beginning at 7pm, the event will include Charles Causley’s poems put to music by folksinger Jim Causley, performances from local schools, as well as memories and tales of ... Read More
In 2020, I fell in love with Charles Causley’s poems for children. Like many readers, I had encountered ‘I Saw a Jolly Hunter’ and ‘Timothy Winters’ in anthologies, but in the lull of lockdown I sat down with my Macmillan Collected Poems for Children and devoured the lot. With the ... Read More