He left school to become an office boy at sixteen to help his mother pay the bills and later spent thirty years teaching in his home town.Ĭharles Causley’s poetry is known for its ballad style, diamond edge clarity and references to Cornwall and its legends.
Born in 1917 as an only child, he grew up in a household dominated for the first seven years of his life by the lingering death of his father who’d been wounded in the First World War. Whilst other prominent twentieth century poets honed their craft in the country’s leading universities, Charles went to Launceston College and, after wartime service in the Royal Navy, trained as a primary teacher in Peterborough.
By the time he died in 2003, aged 86, he’d won a raft of highly prestigious prizes for his poetry, been made a CBE, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Cornish Bard and counted the likes of Ted Hughes as a very good friend. For someone who lived for the vast majority of his life in Launceston, Charles Causley made a very big impression.
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