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Launceston’s Festival of Literature and the Arts

12 - 14 June 2015

LauncestonYouth

Council

12-14 JUNE 2015

A warm welcome to the sixth Charles Causley Festival. 2014 saw the most

successful Festival yet, and we are sure that this year will prove to be even more

successful. Each year has seen the Festival grow and this year is no exception with

music, poetry, literature, film, exhibitions and workshops – something for everyone.

We hope you will support and enjoy this year’s Festival.

“ A truly delightful Festival in a gorgeous part of the world which rightly honours

a wonderful poet and a true son of Cornwall.”

Carol Ann Duffy – 15 June 2014

“The Charles Causley Festival is a bright beacon in the literary landscape -

honouring the memory of a wonderful poet, and doing great things for readers

and writers”Sir Andrew Motion

“How wonderful you have a festival for Charles! I read with him a few times and enjoyed his company. A lovely man. The

best Poet Laureate we never had”Brian Patten

General Festival InformationLaunceston Tourist Information Centre, White Hart Arcade. The TIC will be selling copies of books featured in the Festival, and will be hosting book signings from other writers – see Festival website for more information.

Lawrence House Museum. There is a small permanent exhibition on Charles Causley at the museum, open 10 am – 4 pm Monday-Friday and special opening on Saturday 13 June.

Supported by:Arts Council England, FLIC, Launceston Youth Council and Launceston Town Council.

Charles Causley. Photo: Mary Neal

DisclaimerThe Festival Organisers will make every effort to ensure that performances take place as advertised, but reserve the right to alter the programme if necessary. In the event of a cancellation, a refund of the ticket value will be made, otherwise tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded once purchased.

Front cover photo: Story Republic

www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk2 – THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015

Tickets are available from: Launceston Tourist Information TIC normal open hours: Monday - Friday 9am-5pm Saturday 10am-4pm

TIC Charles Causley Festival open hours: Friday 12 June 9am-7pm Saturday 13 June 10am-7pm Sunday 14 June 10am-2pm

Tickets can be booked in person at the TIC by phone or online. Tickets for free events should also be booked. Tickets will be posted at cost if requested and time allows or will be held at the TIC for collection. Tickets will also be sold on the door at venues subject to availability. Launceston TIC: www.visitlaunceston.co.uk Email:[email protected] Tel 01566 772321

Centre Cornish Riviera Box Office Available from the CRBO website: www.crbo.co.uk

Charles Causley Festival Further information about all the events, artists and performers is available on the festival website: www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk Email: [email protected]

The Charles Causley Festival would like to thank the following for their support:

Neville Hovey Chartered AccountantsPotter Baker Chartered AccountantsHodgsons Chartered AccountantsPeters Langsford Davies SolicitorsGraham Facks-Martin, MBEMansbridge & Balment Estate agentsCarn to Cove Launceston TIC

All our committee members who have worked so hard over the past twelve months, and last but not least... all those appearing at the Festival.

Car Parking Town centre car parking available. Cornwall Council car parks £1 for all day on Saturday and Westgate Street car park free on Sunday.

Launceston Youth Council

Charles Causley walk with Rob Tremain - Friday 10:30

www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 – 3

MORDONan exhibition by Jack Matthews

Friday 12 June - Sunday 21 June 10am - 11pm daily Cafe No. 8 9 Free AdmissionDo you grow tired sea? Are you weary ever When the storms burst over your head?‘Morwenstow’ Charles Causley

Jack Matthews has encapsulated his lifelong love of the sea in a new photographic series ‘Mordon’ (Cornish for sea wave). The series aims to explore the raw energy and beauty of the Cornish coastline, blurring the lines between land and sea, inviting the viewer to question the boundaries between photography and painting. Matthews completes his degree at Falmouth University this year.

Seeing Words, Marking TimeArt Exhibition

Thursday 28 May - Monday 6 July 10am - 5pm daily Terre Verte contemporary art gallery,

Altarnun 14 Free Admission

A special exhibition to coincide with the Festival by artists who use words - inspired by poetry, slogans or history; the aesthetics of letterpress, sketch notes to self, a diary; tracking the moon or the shipping forecast; and a 15-year old collection of words as a personal enquiry.

EXHIBITIONS OPEN DURING THE FESTIVALGwynngala Exhibitionof Arts and Crafts

Friday 12 June - Sunday 14 June 10 am - 4 pm daily Otho Peter Room, Town Hall 6 Free Admission

Established in Launceston in 1996, the Gwynngala group of artists has exhibited extensively in and around Cornwall and Devon. A regular feature of the Charles Causley Festival, the group’s exhibition will feature an inspiring and varied collection of work including painting, sculpture, jewellery and ceramics.

Pop-Up Gallery 5-13 June Launceston TIC 12 Free Admission

Figures full of colour, movement and wit, in room and landscape. Paintings, drawings and prints for sale by local artists Stephen Keyworth, Nicola Johnson and Peter Davies, in a bite-sized pop-up gallery upstairs at Launceston TIC.

Photo © Jack Matthews

Seeing Words, Marking Time

Cyprus Well Open every day Friday 12 to Sunday

14 June 2-5pm No 2 Ridgegrove Hill 3 Free Admission

Visit Charles Causley’s house, Cyprus Well, which will be open especially for the Festival. The house was acquired by The Charles Causley Trust in 2007 as a centre to celebrate his life and writing and promote new literature activity in the community and region in which he lived.


Charlotte Dymond field tripwith Jane Nancarrow

Friday 12 June 11am-3:30pm Bus leaves from Westgate Street,

Coach park, Launceston £10 (bring your own picnic lunch).

Ticket includes transport.Join us on an intriguing field trip with writer Jane Nancarrow to Davidstow Church where Charlotte Dymond is buried, and a walk on Rough Tor, one of the highest points in Cornwall.

Launceston Walkwith Rob Tremain

Friday 13 June 10.30 am Launceston Castle Lodge 1 Donations to the Festival

Launceston Town Crier Rob Tremain’s extensive knowledge of the town will bring its history to life. Join Rob on a walk around the historic streets of Launceston and learn of the influence of Richard of Cornwall; see the deprivation suffered by George Fox and meet the ghost of the martyr St Cuthbert Mayne (not guaranteed).

This walk will involve steep hills around the town.

F R I DAY 12 J U N E

JAMAICA INNSons of

by Jill BattersAdventure and intrigue inspiredby Cornwall’s infamous Jamaica Inn

and its equally famous Trelawny family

Poetry Writing Workshopwith Indian King Poets

Friday 12 June 10am-12pm, followed by a

poetry reading at 1pm Launceston Library 8 £3Though we sail the seas together Each of us must sail alone‘Nelson Gardens’ Charles Causley

Join the Indian King Poets in a two-part workshop where you will have the chance to read Charles Causley’s poems and follow his method of falling in love with a poem. The Indian King Poets formed 20 years ago in Camelford, and will use their experience and knowledge to help you develop your own poetry writing skills. Taking some of Causley’s phrases as a starting point, this workshop is for both experienced poets who seek new challenges and adults with little or no experience of writing poetry.The second part of the workshop will enable you to read your poems aloud to the public should you wish to.This workshop is aimed at adults.

Booking signingwith Jill Batters

Friday 12 June 10-2pm Launceston TIC 12 FREE

‘Sons of Jamaica Inn’A story of adventure and intrigue inspired by Cornwall’s infamous Jamaica Inn and its equally famous Trelawny family.

The new novel covers a period of over 250 years and is set on Bodmin Moor and around Looe and the south east coast of Cornwall. ‘Sons of Jamaica Inn’ is her third novel in the past four years. She has built herself a reputation for her excellent books, each of which is based around stories from a Cornwall of the past.

Indian King Poets

Bring your own picnic for lunch on the Tor, within view of Charlotte Dymond’s memorial stone (subject to weather) and listen to Jane Nancarrow’s reading of Charles Causley’s ‘The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond’ and extracts from Nancarrow’s book ‘Stones and Shadows’ based on Dymond’s life and death.


Story RepublicStories, poems and songs

Friday 12 June 11am Castle Grounds 1 12 noon Museum Garden 7 2 pm Town Square 11 3pm Town Square 11 Free admission

Story Republic cut quite a dash in the street dressed in their Sunday best, brandishing suitcases and performing poems on the spot. Their repertoire includes many of Charles Causley’s poems such as ‘Figgie Hobbin’, where a grumpy King pushes away all delicacies in favour of his prized Cornish pudding; ‘My Young Man’s a Cornishman’, where our ladies fight over a rather self satisfied young man; and ‘Timothy Winters’ the heart rending tale of a young, neglected boy. They will also rouse you with sea shanties, and lull you with stories. Suitable for all ages, especially children.

Rising GroundDiscovery of the spirit of place with Philip Marsden

Friday 12 June 11.30am-12:30pm Launceston Guildhall 6 £3

Philip Marsden is the award-winning author of a number

of works of travel, fiction and non-fiction, including The Bronski House, The Spirit-Wrestlers, The Levelling Sea and most recently, Rising Ground (Granta, 2014).

Nasty PastyJon Cleave’s vision of Cornwall

12 June 12.45 - 1.45pm Town Hall 6 £3 performance /

£5 performance to include a pastyPicture this: Cornwall, 2013. The county is on a knife-edge, in imminent danger of becoming just another nondescript, leafy suburb of the Home Counties. Increasingly, the ethnic Cornish are being bought up and sold out, their dialect ridiculed and their accents punctuated by estuarine glottal stops, marginalised in their own land. Cup cakes and slices of quiche are rumoured to have been seen in a baker’s window in Truro. The tin mines have all closed. The Spanish are hoovering up the fish, Marks and Spencers are trying to make clotted cream, and now the greatest Cornish icon of them all, the pasty, is under threat.

Join Jon Cleave, a member of Fisherman’s Friends, for a pasty lunch and his performative work, Nasty Pasty, a rich and fruity feast of contemporary Cornwall, every mouthful deliciously suffused with his wickedly bittersweet Cornish twistedness; it’s sure to make you chortle if it doesn’t choke you first…


Jon Cleave

Story Republic

Join us for a reading from Rising Ground by Philip Marsden as he explores the sense of Spirit which certain places evoke. From the Neolithic ritual landscape of Bodmin Moor to the Arthurian traditions of Tintagel, from the mysterious china-clay country to the granite tors and tombs of the far south-west, he assembles a chronology of our shifting attitudes to place. In archives, he uncovers the life and work of other ‘topophiles’ before him - medieval chroniclers and Tudor topographers, eighteenth-century antiquarians, post-industrial poets and abstract painters. Drawing also on his own travels overseas, Marsden reveals that the shape of the land lies not just at the heart of our history but of man’s perennial struggle to belong on this earth.


Sophie HannahThe new Poirot

Friday 12 June 2-3pm Guildhall 6 £4

Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime fiction, published in 32 languages and 51 countries. In 2014, she published a new mystery novel starring Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s famous detective. Hannah’s Poirot novel, The Monogram Murders, was written with the blessing of Agatha Christie’s Estate and was an international bestseller, reaching the top 5 in book charts in more than 15 countries.

Hannah will read from The Monogram Murders’ and discuss the inspiration for her work.

Simon HallThe TV Detective

Friday 12 June 3.15-4.15pm Guildhall 6 £4

Simon Hall is the BBC’s Crime Correspondent for the South West and the author of The TV Detective novels, in which a television reporter and a detective work together to solve a series of extraordinary crimes.

Hall will read from his new novel, The Dark Horizon, along with earlier novels revealing the sources for his ideas and inspiration.

Frozen GraveLee Weeks workshop

Friday 12 June 4.30-5.30pm Guildhall 6 £4

Lee Weeks is the author of a crime series ‘Willis/Carter’ based on a fictitious London Murder Squad MIT17. Weeks will read excerpts from the latest book in the series and lead participants through a short workshop giving tips on crime writing.


The Claws of Evil, book signing with Andrew Beasley

Friday 12 June 6-7pm The Christian Bookshop 2 FREE

Meet author Andrew Beasley and hear a short reading from his new children’s series, and get your own signed copy. Set in Victorian London, The Claws of Evil is Beasley’s first book for children. Come and hear his lifelong fascination with Victorian London and Sherlock Holmes, and how some aspects of life in London have not changed so very much since those times.

Simon Hall Lee WeeksSophie Hannah

Charles Causley[Photo of Charles Causley reproduced with the permission of Exeter University Library Special Collections]


Murder MysterySinister goings on...

Friday 12 June 7.30 pm

Town Hall 7 £15 (to include supper)

A murder mystery based (loosely) on the Poldark theme. Who will the victim be - Ross? Demelza, George Warleggan - or perhaps the producer (one up on Top Grear!)

Are you a Morse, Miss Marple, Poirot, or perhaps an Inspector Clouseau? Watch and listen carefully as the plot unfolds before your very eyes. At the end of the evening you will hopefully have worked out who the murderer is.

Murder by Appointment are a professional Cornish theatre company formed in the early 1990’s, it rapidly gained a reputation for murder mystery productions and 2015 sees the company entering its twenty-first year of performances.

Productions are regularly staged at theatres, hotels and other venues throughout the West of England from east Somerset to the far west of Cornwall.

An Evening with Ian Dunlopa Godfather of Americana music

Friday 12 June 8:30pm No 8 Café 9 £10

Ian Dunlop is one of the Godfathers of Americana music and author of the critically acclaimed book Breakfast in Nudie Suits. His essays, short stories and reviews have been published in various journals.

Dunlop played alongside Gram Parsons in The International Submarine band in the 1960’s, and appeared in Peter Fonda’s cult film ‘The Trip’.

Join us for an evening of music and stories of Ian’s musical adventures.

Support for the evening will be Phil Lively-Masters, singer-songwriter from the highly-respected Canyon Ryde, a band whose music has been shaped by American West Coast country-rock.


Ian Dunlop

Murder Mystery

Included amongst the well-known venues have been the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, the Minack Theatre on the cliffs of west Cornwall and one open-air performance for the National Trust at Cockington Hall, Paignton for an audience of 2,500!

The company has regularly appeared on both BBC and ITV as well as BBC Radio Cornwall.


S AT U R DAY 13 J U N E

‘A Life on the Blue’ – Charles Causley in the Royal Navy and ‘All Cornwall Thunders at my Door’with Armand Goulipian and Laurence Green

Saturday 13 June 10.00-11.00am Guildhall 6 £3

An opportunity to hear two accounts of Charles Causley’s life

‘A Life on the Blue: Charles Causley in the Royal Navy’ will examine perhaps the most important period in Causley’s life - his service in World War II. Why did he join the Navy?

Armand Goulipian will present a short appraisal of suffering and the fear of death in two poems; Philip Larkin’s ‘The Old Fools’ and Charles Causley’s ‘Ten Types of Hospital Visitor’. Gulipian will demonstrate how both Larkin and Causley, though their lives were quite different, could perhaps be brought together in their experience of suffering and fearing death. Each poet’s personality is revealed in his personal approach to these distressing circumstances.

Laurence Green

My room is a bright glass cabin,All Cornwall thunders at my door,And the white ships of winter lieIn the sea-roads of the moor.The Seasons in North Cornwall

’All Cornwall Thunders at My Door’ is a comprehensive biography of Causley’s life and work. Laurence Green will read excerpts from his book and present a succinct overview of Causley’s life in Launceston.

Children’s Poetry workshopwith Launceston Library

Saturday 13 June 10.30am-12.30 pm Launceston Library 8

FREEJoin the Children’s Librarian to explore the library’s poetry section and identify the different styles and types of poems. Think poetry is dull? Think again, we’ll show you how to write your own poem which will be displayed in the Library. The workshop includes a picture hunt, making inspiration sheets, puzzles and games and looking at everything from raps to limericks. All materials will be provided.

This workshop is designed for children from 8 to 16 years.

Food & Drink Festival MarketThe Best of Cornwall

Saturday 13 June 10am until 10pm Town Square 11 FREE

The Food & Drink Drink Festival takes place alongside the monthly market in the middle of Launceston’s historic town centre, with performances by poets and musicians, and Cornish produce including locally-brewed beers and ciders.

Enjoy the convivial atmosphere, a well-earned treat after exploring the Festival.


Charles Causley Walkwith Jane Nancarrow

Saturday 13 June 10.30am-12.30pm Meet at Eagle House Hotel

3 Castle Street PL15 8BA Donations to the Festival

Jane Nancarrow’s walks have proved hugely popular. Stroll around the town with an animated tour by Nancarrow and see the locations that inspired some of Charles Causley’s best-loved poems including the National School, and visit St Thomas’s Church where Causley is buried. Nancarrow, who was taught by Causley, reads his poems with empathy and genuine enthusiasm.

The walk will involve several steep hills in the town and is subject to changes in the weather.

Alyson Hallett & Kathryn SimmondsTwo poets in residence

Saturday 13 June 12noon Launceston Guildhall 6 £4

Kathryn Simmonds was the first Charles Causley Trust Poet in Residence in 2014. In 2008, she won the Forward Best First Collection Award with Sunday at the Skin Laundrette, described in the Guardian as a “playful and knowing first collection fuelled throughout by a strong sense of lyricism.” While living in Launceston Simmonds finished her first novel, Love & Fallout.

Dr Alyson Hallett was the second Charles Causley Trust Poet in Residence in 2014 and the first to live in Causley’s home, now managed by the Charles Causley Trust, Cyprus Well. She is a prize-winning poet whose latest book of poetry is Suddenly Everything.

Join us for a revealing discussion about their experiences as Poet in Residence at Cyprus Well.


Walk with Jane Nancarrow

Luke Thompson

Alyson Hallett

Kathryn Simmonds

Man of ClayThe poetry and prose of Jack Clemo by Luke Thompson

Saturday 13 June 11.00 am Launceston Guildhall 6 £4

Jack Clemo was blind and deaf for much of his adult life. His only means of communication was for someone to trace out letters on the palm of his hand, and yet he became one of the most important of Cornwall’s writers and poets. His work is steeped in the culture of the clay country around mid-Cornwall.

Join us as Luke Thompson examines this extraordinary man’s life and looks at his friendships with other writers including Charles Causley.

Luke Thompson is currently writing a biography of Jack Clemo and has discovered numerous unpublished poems by Clemo.

Part of the proceeds from this event will go towards supporting the Sir Arthur Quiller Couch Memorial Fund, which is better known as ‘The Q Fund’ (Charity No. 306599).

Charles Causley (L) with Jack Clemo


Jenny Balfour PaulTracing Thomas Machell

Saturday 13 June 1-3pm The Tamar Room, White Hart Hotel

13 £7 to include a sandwich lunch,

pay barJenny Balfour Paul, writer, artist, international lecturer and intrepid traveller, is author of two books on Indigo. Jenny is an Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter University and President of the UK’s Association of Guilds The author’s quest begins when the word ‘indigo’ draws her to the illustrated journals, now in the British Library, of Victorian traveller Thomas Machell. This intriguing odyssey, set on the edges of time, encompasses biography, memoir, detective story, travelogue and history to tell a remarkable tale of East-West connections and a mysterious love.

Join us for a lunchtime talk with Jenny Balfour Paul.

Book signing with Carolyn McGivern

Saturday 13 June 2pm-2:30pm & 4-5pm Town Hall 6 FREE

‘Starring Edward Woodward’ is the new biography of Edward Woodward by author Carolyn McGivern.

Join us for a special book signing with Carolyn at the Festival.

This follows the special screening of Edward Woodward’s film ‘A Congregation of Ghosts’ which was filmed on location in rural Cornwall and shown at last years festival.

Horrible Science!with Nick Arnold

Saturday 13 June 2.30pm-4pm Launceston Town Hall 6 £2

Join amazing author Nick Arnold for outrageous hair-raising highlights from the multi-award winning Horrible Science series including Really Rotten Experiments! Get ready for evil experiments, scary stories and queasy quizzes. With woeful water experiments, foul factoids and the odd putrid poem this is roof-raising family fun with extra squishy bits. Not to be missed!

This event is programmed specially for children.

S AT U R DAY 13 J U N Ehow to write good dialogue? This practical workshop by scriptwriter and comedian Stephen Keyworth aims to set you on the right track, whether you’re a beginner or someone with a few scripts under your belt.

Keyworth has written plays for Radio 4 and the stage, as well as episodes of EastEnders, Casualty and Doctors. In 2011 he won Shine Pictures Big Idea prize, and worked on forthcoming film Breaking The Bank starring Kelsey Grammer. He is currently mentoring MA students at Central School of Speech and Drama, and worked for many years as a stand-up comedian.

Charles Causley A memoir and an appreciation

Saturday 13 June 5-6pm Cyprus Well, 2 Ridgegrove Hill 3 £2

Join Barry Newport for a candid reflection on his 28-year friendship with Charles Causley, in the poet’s former home at Cyprus WellNewport will share his recollections of numerous visits to Launceston, meeting Causley at many readings and events, and their mutual friends and acquaintances who were part of Causley’s life story. Barry Newport is a retired GP with a passion for books and literature. He has contributed to a numerous journals, including The Thomas Hardy Society Journal, and was a speaker at the 2014 Thomas Hardy Conference. He published an article and a select bibliography in Causley at Seventy (1987), and edited A Hand and Flower Anthology, (a celebration of the Hand and Flower Press), in 1980. Please note, there are a limited number of tickets for this event due to capacity at Cyprus WellPlease park in town and walk to Cyprus Well. Note the house is on a steep hill.

Jenny Balfour Paul

Horrible Science with Nick Arnold

Horrible Science at the Festival is supported by Peters Langsford Solicitors

Script and StoryScriptwriting workshop with Stephen Keyworth

Saturday 13 June 4 - 6 pm Guildhall 6 £4

Interested in writing for television, radio or theatre? Or learning more about the tools of storytelling and


An evening with Brian Patten and the Bookshop Band

Saturday 13 June 7:30pm until 10pm Launceston Town Hall 6 £10

Brian Patten made his name in the 1960s as one of the Liverpool Poets, alongside Adrian Henri and Roger McGough. Their main aim was to make poetry immediate and accessible for their audience, and their joint anthology, The Mersey Sound (1967), has been credited as the most significant anthology of the 20th century for its success in bringing poetry to new audiences, and is now a Penguin Modern Classic.The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books, most of the songs start their life at author events at their local bookshop, Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath.Beth Porter has been recording


Brian Patten

The Bookshop Band

and performing for over 10 years with over 60 album credits, and plays regularly with a number of artists, including Eliza Carthy and Newton Faulkner.

Ben Please spent 10 years with indie folk band Urusen as a singer and guitarist and has worked with legendary producer Steve Osborne (Elbow, KT Tunstall).


Charles Causley WalkWith Arthur Wills

Sunday 14 June 10.30am St Thomas Church, Newport 10 Donations to the Festival

Arthur Wills was a close friend of Charles Causley and is also a noted local historian. Walk with Arthur and explore the area where the poet was born and brought up in the Newport area of Launceston.

The Emperor’s New ClothesLeading street theatre with Launceston Youth Theatre

Sunday 14 June 11.00am Town Square 11 12.00am Priory Park 10 Free

Charles Causley wrote this version of The Emperor’s New Clothes and this will be it’s first performance since 1991. Based on the tale by Hans Christian anderson, this tale of perception over reality is very appropriate in today’s celebrity-dominated world, produced by Launceston Youth Theatre.

Salt RoadMusic and Stories with Anna Maria Murphy and Bagas Degol

Sunday 14 June 12.30 pm No. 8 Cafe 9 Adult £8, Children/Concessions £6

Writer Annamaria Murphy (Kneehigh Theatre, BBC Radio 4) and Musicians/Composers Bagas Degol 2nd collaboration.

Cod Joliff, fisherman , finds a mysterious diary written by his great great great Grandfather, Ebeenezer Joliff, who had gone with his two brothers to preach in Tierra Del Fuego. Cod goes on an epic journey to discover the secrets hidden in the diaries pages.

Come to Salt Road and find out who kissed like a limpet and what Caleb Joliff saw in an iceberg.

A lunchtime of original stories and music about the sea and how it shapes us, those who leave, stay behind and come back. A Cornish Odyssey around our coasts and Salt Roads.

Made specially for Cornish feasts, halls, festivals, sundry venues both usual and unusual.

S U N DAY 14 J U N E

Bagas Degol

‘Barefoot in Ruins’ Sunday 14 June 2:30pm onwards Priory Ruins, St Thomas Church 10 Free

Join Barefoot at The Poetry Tent for an Open Mic session and enter the Turnip Prize competition created for the festival.

The Priory Ruins stand behind St.Thomas Church and form a delightful outdoor setting .

Everyone is welcome and should bring poetry, stories, songs, music and maybe food, drink and a blanket and brolly . . . as the weather suggests.

Enter this year’s Turnip Prize Competition ‘Local’. Entries are free, and can be anything you want to express your own thoughts on ‘Local’, for example, writing, cooking, drawing, knitting or use any other appropriate means. Only original work will be eligible but of course you can work with others to produce it!

Bring your creations to the Priory Ruins on Sunday afternoon and read/ exhibit/ perform your piece. Launceston Youth Theatre The Golden Turnip


Winning Flower Displayswith Alison Penno, Flower Scene

Sunday 14 June 1:30-3.00pm Guildhall 6 £1

Learn from the experts, join us for a flower arrangement demonstration with award winning florists from Flower Scene, accompanied by local author, Jane Nancarrow reading Charles Causley’s poems.

OPEN GARDENS Sunday 14 June All Free 2-3pm Kensey Foods garden, Pennygilliam Industrial Estate,

Launceston, PL15 7AF. Meet the gardener Peter Wilton and pick up a map and wander the trail at your leisure.

2:30-3:30pm Manaton, Dunheved Road, Launceston, PL15 9JE. Collect a plan of the garden and wander at your leisure.

2-4pm The Holt, 2 Wooda Lane, Launceston, PL15 8JB Launceston in Bloom Best Overall Garden 2014, no access to the garden, to be viewed over the wall. Parking at the Old National School or on the road.

11am-4pm Lawrence House Museum, Castle Street, Launceston. Enjoy tea in the gardens of the museum.

FORTHCOMING EVENT: Sunday 21 June Charles Causley Trust, Midsummer Garden at Penheale, Egloskerry with poetry readings by Anna Maria Murphy.

John Harris, known as the ‘Moon Gardener,’ is Head Gardener of a Cornish estate which includes one of the last remaining working Victorian walled kitchen gardens in the south west. He is an author and a regular on BBC Radio Devon’s “Potting Shed”.

Sarah Chesters now combines a job as Education and Learning Manager at RHS Garden Rosemoor with a regular presenting slot on BBC Radio Devon.

Michael Taylor was until very recently proprietor of Endsleigh


Celebrating 20 years of Launceston in Bloom

Gardens Nursery at Milton Abbot. A gardener all his life, Taylor had worked on large estates such as Floors Castle and Sandringham but always said that Endsleigh was the best.

Johnny Mann is a retired local vet, with a lifelong interest in horticulture and wildlife, and opens his extensive garden, described as a ‘hardy plantsman’s garden’ for charity. He has a keen interest in hellebores and was previously Chairman of the Cornwall’s Hardy Plant Society.

Alison Penno

Gardeners’ Question Time - Meet the experts Sunday 14 June 3-4.30 pm Launceston Town Hall £2

Bring along your queries, sickly plants and tales of woe and our panel of professionals Johnny Mann (Chair), John Harris, Sarah Chesters and Michael Taylor will offer advice and support. (Please bring any plants in sealed plastic bags.)

Flower Scene, established in Launceston in 1984 regularly enter competitions at all levels, including Royal Horticultural Show, British Florist Association and National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies. In 2010 they won Silver Gilt and Silver medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

L to R: John Harris, Sarah Chesters, Micheal Taylor and Johnny Mann


Foraging for wild foodWith Rachel Lambert

Sunday 14 June 4.30-5.30pm Launceston Guildhall 6 £3

Come and meet Forager and Wild Food Guide Rachel Lambert for tips on identifying wild foods to forage from local walks across fields, along hedgerows and onto beaches. Lambert prides herself in offering accessible and hands on foraging experiences, introducing the wonders of wild food foraging to all ages and abilities, and will share her knowledge and experience of foraging in Cornwall.

literary. This project has involved interviews with over 20 people including friends from Launceston and major poets including Roger McGough, Simon Armitage and Andrew Motion. Produced by Jane Darke and Andrew Tebbs of Boatshed Films, this promises to be a film to place Causley and Launceston firmly on the map.

Testament of Youthfilm

Sunday 14 June 7.30pm Launceston Town Hall 6 Adults £5, Concessions £4

Testament of Youth is a searing story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain which became the classic testimony of the war from a woman’s point of view. A powerful


and passionate journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again; a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Certificate 12.

Supper will be available between films

7-7.30pm £3 per plate, bar open

Festival Closing Party at Firebrand

Sunday 14 June 9pm until late Firebrand Free, pay bar

Join us for the closing party and meet many of the people involved in the festival at Firebrand.

Wild food with Rachel Lambert

Testament of Youth

PoetA film about Charles Causley

Sunday 14 June 5.45-7pm Launceston Town Hall 6 Adults £4, Concessions £3

Join us for a special preview of Jane Darke’s new film (currently in production) about Charles Causley, much of which was filmed in the town.

Poet is about the life and work of Charles Causley as seen through the eyes of his friends - both local and

Charles Causley with his mother[Reproduced with the permission of Exeter University Library Special Collections]


Charles Causley was born in Launceston in 1917 and is acknowledged as one of the very finest Twentieth Century English poets. He lived in Launceston all his life, apart from six years in the Royal Navy.

After World War II Charles Causley worked as a teacher in Launceston. He was a popular and admired figure and this admiration is evident in the great affection in which his memory is held today.

Charles Causley was also highly regarded by his fellow poets. Ted Hughes wrote: “Before I was made Poet Laureate, I was asked to name my choice of the best poet for the job. Without hesitation I named Charles Causley... a poet for whom the title might have been invented afresh.”

Charles Causley’s poetic reputation was worldwide

and brought him many awards; among them The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and The Ingersoll/ TS Eliot Award. He was made a CBE in 1986 and a Royal Society of Literature ‘Companion of Literature’ in 2000. He received an Hon DLitt from the University of Exeter, where his archive is now held.Charles Causley died in 2003 and is buried next to his mother in St. Thomas Churchyard, barely 100 yards from where he was born. Charles Causley lived and worked at No.2 Cyprus Well in Launceston. Grants from Arts Council England and Cornwall Council and in-kind support from Launceston Town Council and Literature Works to The Charles Causley Trust has enabled the renovation of Charles Causley’s House. Cyprus Well has become a venue for a writer in residency scheme with an associated activities programme.

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Further information about all our events, artists and performers is available at the Festival website: www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk

Festival VenuesLaunceston 1 Castle Green

2 Christian Bookshop, 9 Westgate Street PL15 7AB

3 Cyprus Well, No 2 Ridgegrove Hill

4 Firebrand, 5-7 Southgate Street PL15 9DP

5 Launceston Castle

6 Town Hall/Guildhall, Western Road, PL15 7AR

7 Lawrence House Museum, 9 Castle Street PL15 8BA

8 Library, Bounsalls Lane PL15 9AB

9 No 8 Cafe, 8 Westgate Street PL15 7AB

10 The Priory Ruins, St Thomas’ Church

11 Town Square

12 Launceston Tourist Information Centre (TIC), White Hart Arcade, Broad Street, PL15 8AA

13 White Hart, 15 Broad Street PL15 8AL

Altarnun (9 miles from Launceston on the A30 Bodmin road)

14 Terre Verte Gallery, Pooleys, Altarnun, Launceston PL15 7SJ

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