The eighth Charles Causley Festival is approaching, running from 1st-10th June, with particular focus on the weekend of 3rd/4th June. A variety of events from exhibitions, walks, music, poetry, film and literature will be taking place, and here at The Trust we are excited to share with you the events ... Read More
There are two podcasts left to share with you, and they are both readings by the 7*******s writers. Over the last three months during Andrew’s residency and my own involvement with the Charles Causley Trust we have shared many conversations, poetry group meetings, workshops and come to discuss our own ... Read More
Life at sea demands an economy of language…
Skylark (afterword) from Hands to Dance and Skylark – Charles Causley
– In A Glass of Salt Water – his introduction to the 1979 edition ... Read More
The Last Week of Residency and Bowden DerraAlthough another blog and podcast will appear here next week, last Friday was officially the end of my mentoring residency with Andrew Fentham and The Charles Causley Trust. We had the great pleasure of facilitating a poetry workshop with the residents at Bowden ... Read More
I’ve listened to a lot of solo piano music over the last few months while wondering if I can imagine Charles Causley’s interest in and appreciation of the piano – an instrument that for centuries has been so beautifully composed for and often so beautifully played. I wonder as ... Read More
The latest Podcast begins with a series of poems and piano pieces arranged by Marcelo and Mac. The first poem is “Tabacaria” written as an homage to the Portugese poet Fernando Pessoa, who wrote under the ‘heteronym” Alvaro de Campos, a fictitious character who lived in Tavira where Marcelo ... Read More
Translate, I hear you say. Translate.
‘Sorel Point’ – Charles Causley
– William Jay Smith – reviewing Secret Destinations: Selected Poems in 1990 – praised Causley as cool and chaste – perhaps untranslatable to the omnipresent and overestimated baroque buffoonery of Smith’s contemporary American scene ... Read More
We are thrilled to present the first in a special series of podcasts to celebrate and share the work that is being created and showcased at Cyprus Well.
The series begins with Mac Dunlop, who is currently Mentor to our young Poet in Residence, Andrew Fentham. In the first ... Read More
Dunheved / Devon
DOOMSDALE gaol
Lanstefan / Launceston / Lanson
// North Gatehouse // DOOMSDALE // G Fox & Friends
// DOOMSDALE where even at noonday
Cuthbert Mayne cannot see his own hands //
IN MANUS TUAS DOMINE //
MARIA OPTIMAM PARTEM ELIGIT
| MARY | MAGS | MARY | MAGS |
| ... Read More
Several months ago the Charles Causley Trust was delighted to announce the beginning of a fifth writer’s residency in the New Year. This particular residency is somewhat special, catering specifically for a young writer with ties to Cornwall, either by birth, study or residence. The interest and responses we received ... Read More