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refurbishment and upgrading, that has been opened on a limited basis to the public, and to provide a facility for a varied programme of activities. Most particularly, there has been a series of residencies for writers of all kinds, artists and musicians, as well as other heritage events. These promote both
Causley's life and work, and the arts in general—especially across the South West region of Cornwall and Devon.
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In June 2010, the first of a continuing series of annual
Charles Causley Festivals took place in Launceston, held over a long weekend. Festival programmes encompass literature, music, art and a variety of other fields for adults, families and children, featuring performers and other contributors from
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and twenty-three other poets, testifying to the respect and indeed love that the
British poetry community had for him. This was followed by a fuller and more wide-ranging tribute (including some unpublished reflective essays, and reproductions of several drafts of his poem 'Immunity' from his archive
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The
Charles Causley International Poetry Prize is administered by the Causley Trust and is open to anyone over the age of 18. It began in 2013 and has continued in most years since, with a steadily-increasing number of entries. There are a number of monetary prizes and a good deal of publicity for
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An art exhibition entitled 'Charles
Causley: A Tribute from the Artists' was organised to coincide with Causley's 70th birthday in 1987 by Ron Tamplin of Exeter University, and featured a wide range of paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures. It later transferred from the University to the
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After demobilisation in 1946, he took advantage of a government scheme to train as a teacher at
Peterborough. He then worked full-time as a teacher at his old school for over 35 years, teaching for his very final year at St. Catherine's CofE Primary elsewhere in the town, where the National School
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The fifth festival in June 2014 was prefaced by the unveiling of a memorial plaque at Cyprus Well (another one later marked his nearby birthplace near St Thomas Church and the River Kensey). That festival also marked the centenary of the start of the First World War with a series of talks on war
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Causley's poetry dealing with issues of faith, folklore, memory, his wartime experience and its later impact, landscape, travel, friends and family, his poems for children were and remain very popular. He used to say that he could have lived comfortably on the fees paid for the
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Charles Causley Trust, a registered charity, exists to celebrate his life and work and promote new literature activity in the community and region in which he lived. In 2006, the trust secured Cyprus Well, the poet's small house in Launceston, for the nation. After considerable repairs,
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Causley stayed true to what he called his 'guiding principle', adopted from Auden and others, that: "while there are some good poems which are only for adults, because they presuppose adult experience in their readers, there are no good poems which are only for children."
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In terms of
Causley's musical legacy, an original opera by Steven McNeff based on Causley's libretto 'The Burning Boy', was premiered by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's Kokoro Ensemble in Launceston and St. Ives in November 2017. The majority of the songs of
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The June 2017 festival (the 8th) marked the centenary of
Causley's birth in August 1917. There were rare performances of several of Causley's one-act plays from the 1930s, and a session from the illustrator John Lawrence and Gaby Morgan marking the reissue of
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Perhaps because of that widespread perception of Causley as a poetic 'outsider', academia has so far paid less attention to his work than it might have done. However, the publication over recent years of a book of critical essays edited by Michael Hanke,
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poetry. A documentary film about Causley's life and work, made by Jane Darke and Andrew Tebbs of Boatshed Films, featured in several versions across the 6th and 7th festivals (2015 and 2016). A shortened version of the full 1990 film,
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After its early years, it developed into an international competition. In 2018, the announcements and presentations were hosted by Paul Tyler, Lord Linkinhorne (a patron of the Causley Trust), at the House of Lords.
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Causley left school at 16, working as a clerk in a builder's office. He played in a semi-professional dance band, and wrote plays—one of which was broadcast on the BBC West Country service before World War II.
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initiatives. He also made many television and radio appearances over the post-war period, particularly for the BBC in the West Country, and as the presenter for many years of the BBC Radio 4 series
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followed in 1953, and from then until his death Causley published frequently, in magazines, in his own volumes and shared ones, in anthologies and then in several editions of his
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of Causley himself reading it (amongst several other poems) aloud, shortly before his death in 2003.
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the prize-winning poets and those achieving honourable mentions.
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All Cornwall Thunders at My Door: A Biography of Charles Causley.
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Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy (2005).
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How Pleasant to Know Mrs. Lear: A Victorian Comedy in One Act
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1st prize – Luke Allen, 'First Winter in Iceland'. Judge:
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1st prize – Angela Readman, 'The Museum of Water'. Judge:
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1st prize – Elena Croitoru, 'Tower Block Twelve'. Judge:
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1st prize – Judy O'Kane, 'Tasting Notes'. Judge: Sir
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1894:"2021 International Poetry Competition Results"
1868:"2019 International Poetry Competition Results"
1721:"Claire Dyer Wins Charles Causley Poetry Prize"
970:Early in the Morning: A Collection of New Poems
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547:Still two years old and trembling at his feet.
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1816:"The Charles Causley Poetry Competition 2016"
1642:"The Charles Causley Poetry Competition 2013"
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817:Hands to Dance and Skylark
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1047:The Conquering Hero
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1024:I Had a Little Cat
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1820:Give me challenge
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