![]() ![]() Causley was always ‘thunderstruck’ when people thought he’d invented Timothy Winters: ‘he was a real bloke. ![]() In the first stanza alone, the brilliantly onomatopoeic ‘blitz of a boy’ gives a striking sense of Timothy Winters’ life in mess, distressing appearance, and perhaps explosive behaviour. Read it and listen to a reading of it online here.Ĭausley’s similes and metaphors are so vivid and powerful. ‘Timothy Winters’ is possibly Causley’s most well-known poem – it’s a character-study of young boy feeling the brunt of post-war deprivation but maintaining a bold and assertive presence in the world. Enter our challenge, and you (or your poem) could be a star part of this performance. ![]() On Wednesday 31 January 2018, we’ll be holding a celebratory Charles Causley centenary event at the Poetry Café in Covent Garden. Read lots of his poems online here, and check out his list of publications. You can read a fuller biography here, and find out more about his life and work here. He saw no distinction between his adult and children readers, and balanced intimacy and formality in poetry that both popular audiences and critics loved. Born and raised in Cornwall, he was a poet whose work for adults and children ranged across war poetry, religious poetry, eco poetry and protest poetry. We launch a new challenge based around the classic poem ‘Timothy Winters’ in celebration of poet Charles Causley’s centenary.Ģ017 is the centenary of Charles Causley’s birth. ![]()
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