The fifth Charles Causley Festival will start on 12 June with printmaking workshops from Swanskin Printmakers and will end on 16 June with a new commission performed by Access Theatre working with Rogue Theatre. In-between the Festival will welcome many poets including the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, the first Charles Causley Poet in Residence Kathryn Simmonds, Victoria Field, Alyson Hallet, John Greening, Andy Brown, David Woolley and Ann Gray. Former MP Ann Widdecombe will be talking about her new book ‘Strictly Ann’ and novelist Mavis Cheek will be talking about the process of writing in the context of two of her novels. There will be musical books from Little Machine and the Bookshop Band, a little jazz, comedy from Iestyn Edwards and Rob Barratt, workshops on writing, and getting your work published, films, dance, a teddy bears picnic, Causley walks, exhibitions and an art trail, a recreation of a Cornish Plen an Gawry and places to read your own work to an appreciative audience. Dylan Thomas expert Dr John Goodby will commemorate the centenary of his birth, and the centenary of the commencement of World War I will be acknowledged through a series of talks on soldier poets of then and now, and the impact of war on Charles Causley. ‘Causley at the Castle’ will happen on Saturday, as will the Food Festival. The Launceston Steam Railway will be running trains on Sunday and hosting authors’ talks and book signings. Full information will shortly be available on the website charlescausleyfestival.co.uk Tickets for all events will be available on the CRBO website or from the Launceston TIC.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:50:14 +0000
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