Over the Summer the Trust was delighted to welcome poet Tommy Sissons to host a residency at Cyprus Well. Whilst there he crafted five poems now in his pamphlet, Shanty and Other Poems, inspired by Charles Causley as well as the rich Cornish folklore in and around Launceston. The Trust ... Read More
We are pleased to announce two digital poetry workshops with Rachel Piercey, our 2023 Writer in Residence. Taking place on Saturday 11th March from 3-6pm and on Wednesday 15th March from 6.30-9.30pm, the sessions are open to poets who write for adults and poets who write for children.
From Rachel Piercey:
I am ... Read More
We are thrilled to announce an upcoming Poetry Open Mic Evening with our 2023 Writer in Residence Rachel Piercey, hosted by The Byre.
Join us on Wednesday 22nd March from 7pm onwards at The Byre in Launceston Town Centre for a poetry open mic evening with Poet and children’s writer, Rachel ... Read More
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Our 2022 artist residency is well underway! We are thrilled to have an update from Anthony Vahni Capildeo about their experience so far staying at Cyprus Well in Launceston.
After an eleven-hour journey from north Edinburgh to Launceston, I arrived as dusk was falling but immediately felt welcomed ... Read More
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We are delighted to announce that our 2022 artist resident will be ... Anthony Vahni Capildeo!
Having worked with us as the Head Judge of our 2021 International Poetry Competition, we cannot wait to see what award-winning writer Anthony Vahni Capildeo will produce during their artist residency at Cyprus ... Read More
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
The Charles Causley Trust and Literature Works are delighted to announce their next Writer in Residence for 2018, Jen Hadfield, who has arrived all the way from Shetland to live at Cyprus Well, home of the late Charles Causley and now a retreat for writers and artists, managed by The ... Read More
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
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
Jack Thacker was the winner of The Charles Causley International Poetry Competition 2016 with his fantastic poem ‘The Load.’ Judged by Sir Andrew Motion with the exciting prize of £2000, and the added prestige of the backdrop of Charles Causley’s centenary year, the standard of entries was fantastically high.
Jack ... Read More
Not so much putting poetry in its place, or keeping poetry in its place, but speculating, at the end of a poetry ‘placement’ in what has become, over the months, one dear perpetual place (to quote WB Yeats) on the possible interconnectedness of inspiration and location, location, location.
Living in Cyprus ... Read More
I was born on an Irish sea of eggs and porter,
I was born in Belfast, in the MacNeice country,
A child of Harland & Wolff in the Iron forest.
My childbed a steel cradle slung from a gantry…
‘HMS Glory’: Charles Causley
Home and AwayIn earlier musings (and in a Literature Works interview last ... Read More