Like leaving, departure is as much concerned with beginnings as it is with endings.
I feel sad to leave this quiet house, but I’m lucky to be beginning a relationship with North Cornwall, The Charles Causley Trust, and Causley’s work, and I’m going to be back in a number of capacities ... 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
Tomorrow night (Thursday 13th July) we will be gearing up for the latest Centenary celebration in the form of a musical and poetry event called ‘Charles Causley: A Musical Celebration’. Our writer in residence Cahal Dallat had this to say about what to expect from tomorrow evening:
“Having spent 3 ... 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
No ideas but in things (William Carlos Williams) .
A cigarette that bears a lipstick’s traces,
An airline ticket to romantic places…
‘These Foolish Things’ (Holt Marvell & Jack Stracey)
Thinking of ThingsNot that I’ve spent 4 weeks of my 3 months in Charles ... 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
Here at The Charles Causley Trust, we are excited to announce that our next resident of Cyprus Well will be Cahal Dallat. Cahal will be with us from May to July, under the kind sponsorship of Literature Works, and we are excited to share his plans with you via a ... Read More
The Keats-Shelley Memorial Association has recently announced the shortlist for their prestigious Keats-Shelley Prize 2017. The prize was established in 1998 and is an annual competition for poems and essays on Romantic themes. This year the theme is ‘To a Friend’ in order to commemorate the 200th anniversary of ... 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
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