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
Does the rain fall differently here? It seems like it does. Yes, it is often horizontal just as in Yorkshire, where I’m from, but there is something else. When I just went out after the rain stopped, there was that fresh smell of clean air, sky still grey but the ... Read More
Our next residency opportunity is for a young writer with strong links to Cornwall. If this sounds like you then start working on an application - you have until Monday 28th November to apply.
Friday was a special day.
North Cornwall looked resplendent in autumn sunlight as we drove from Launceston to the North Cornwall Book Festival. Our Chairman, David Fryer, pointed out the sights to our new poet and illustrator in residence at Cyprus Well, Charlotte Walker, as we passed the slate quarry and ... Read More
My first week here is already over. Seven nights gone during which I’ve established a sort of pygmy evening routine. It is shorter and more to the point than my usual one at home in Bristol, mostly due to the subtraction of family rituals of cooking, clearing, children's’ music practice ... Read More
In my first week of being the Charles Causley poet-in-residence I wrote about Causley’s study: about the quality of light in the room and the level of attention provoked by its atmosphere. This hasn’t changed throughout my stay. What has changed, however, is the study’s bookshelf. The University of Exeter ... Read More
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 red face and straw-coloured hair has he:
I shall meet him on the road from Marazion
And the Mediterranean Sea.
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September ... Read More