Programme

Charles Causley: Influence and Legacy

Saturday 6 December 2014 Falmouth University, Penryn Campus

Programme

9-9.30 Registration, coffee and biscuits – Exchange Seminar Blue

9.30 Welcome from Professor Jason Whittaker and Dr Kym Martindale – Exchange Lecture Theatre

All panels and talks will take place in Exchange Lecture Theatre

10.00-11.30 Panel 1: Friendship, Faith and Childhood (chair Kym Martindale)
1. Luke Thompson (University of Exeter): ‘Meeting-Points: Jack Clemo and
Charles Causley’
2. Rob Smith (University of Exeter): ‘The Hopeful Believer: Causley, Faith
and Seeing’
3. Jim Kelly (University of Exeter): ‘Causley’s Haunted Launceston: Locating
a Gothic Childhood’

11.30-12.30 Jane Darke and Andrew Tebbs– Angel Hill (chair Jason Whittaker)
Jane and Andrew will talk about their current project, a film about Charles
Causley, and show selected interviews with Andrew Motion and Simon Armitage.

12.30-1.30 Lunch- Exchange Seminar Blue (all refreshments during the day will be available in this room)

1.30-3.00 Panel 2: Facing East: Causley in the Wider World (Chair Luke Thompson)
1. Mike Cooper (Independent Scholar): ‘A spatter of scarlet poppies: Causley
and the Great War’
2. Laurence Green (Independent Scholar): ‘Charles Causley, Ira Levin, Selina
Wadge, and Dr Seuss’.
3. John Hurst (University of Exeter -retired): ‘Charles Causley’s Wider World’

3.30-4.00 Coffee

4.00-6.00 Panel 3: Influence and Legacy (chair Niamh Downing)
1. Alan Kent (Open University): ‘Celticity, Mystery and Poetry: The Theatre
Works of Charles Causley’
2. Christine Faunch (University of Exeter Special Collections) and Charlotte
Berry (Alfred Gillet Trust): ‘Discovering Charles: curatorial reflections on
the papers of Charles Causley at the University of Exeter’
3. Charles Causley – Poet-in-Residence – Alyson Hallett (Causley Trust Writer-in-Residence) and students from Falmouth University – Alyson will read her work alongside students who have been attending her workshops at Cyprus Well, and offer thoughts on the experience of writing and living in Charles Causley’s house in discussion with Kym Martindale.

Students: 

Reading: Lucy Carney, Sarah Cave and Sarah Purnell;

Represented: Lucy Linford, Anna Cathenka, Jessica Hawes

(all student work will be posted in Legacies)

7.00 pm: Guest Performance and Reading – Brian Patten (chair Kym Martindale)