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
Still rocking at 80 years old, Roger McGough - Mersey poet, 60's pop star and longstanding presenter of the BBC's 'Poetry Please' - is the star of this year's Charles Causley Festival. The festival headliner was a friend and student of Causley’s back in the day and is delighted to ... Read More
To celebrate the work of Charles Causley and to encourage young writers to follow in his footsteps, the Charles Causley Trust is again organising this popular annual prize for 2018. It’s free to enter and is open to all young people, aged 5-18, living in Cornwall.Often described as ‘the greatest ... Read More
Join the Poetry Society and the Charles Causley Trust at Cahal Dallat's Centenary Lecture, Charles Causley: the Sounding Heart
Wednesday 31 January 2018, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Poetry Society, London
Tickets £7.00 full price / £5.00 Poetry Society members & Concessions
Cahal Dallat, Charles Causley Trust centenary writer-in-residence, explores the lasting work and influence of ... Read More
The grand finale of the centenary year .....
On Saturday 25th November, the Lustleigh Society presents an evening of Film and live music to celebrate the life of the poet Charles Causley. Not only will the feature length film be introduced by the director Jane Darke, Jim Causley, a distant relation of the poet, will also be present to sing some ... Read More
Come and hear Charles Causley's libretto with an original score by Stephen McNeff and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra ensemble – Kokoro.
The opera tell the story of the prophet Elisha and the raising of the boy from the dead after he has been struck down in the field by the heat of the sun. The source ... Read More
Come and listen to the former Archbishop of Canterbury and current Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge reveal how Charles Causley inspired his career as a poet.
Saturday 9 December 2017 at 7 30
Launceston Town Hall
Tickets from Launceston TIC
£10, under 18 and unwaged £8
On Monday 30 October 8pm, Charles Causley, Troubadour.
Experience an evening with John Mole, Alyson Hallett, Rory Waterman, Cahal Dallat, Bernadette
Reed & Jim Causley
Join our Causley-Trust/Coffee-House Poetry words&music 100th-birthday
bash for Charles Causley (1917-2003), one of the century's most popular
poets whose modern ballads, subversive wit, & odes to everyday
experience, captured the imagination ... Read More
Jane Darke's film, Cornwall's Native Poet Charles Causley. Showing on BBC FOUR on Sunday October 1st at 8pm. And then available on BBC iPlayer
Liz Breslin was the 3rd prize winner in The Charles Causley International Poetry Competition 2016 with her poem ‘Walk A Mile/ Stepping Out’.
As a child in the UK, Liz Breslin memorised Charles Causley’s poems sitting in the bath. She now lives in Hawea Flat, New Zealand and writes ... Read More
Joanne Key was the 2nd prize winner in our Charles Causley International Poetry Competition 2016 with her brilliant ‘The Year You Turned Into A Fish’.
Joanne lives in Crewe in Cheshire where she writes poetry and short fiction. Her poems have appeared in various places online and in print including ... Read More