Click here to access the poetry recordings of Charles Causley as well as a brief biography of this author.

Charles Causley (1917-2003) was born and brought up in Launceston, Cornwall and lived there for most of his life. His work fell outside the main poetic trends of the 20th century, drawing instead on native sources of inspiration: folk songs, hymns, and above all, ballads. From this page, you can hear the voice of Charles Causley reading five of his poems, "At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux," "Timothy Waters," "Healing a Lunatic Boy," "Miller's End," and "Eden Rock."

Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of a meeting, in a recording studio, between Andrew Motion, soon after he became U.K. Poet Laureate in 1999, and the recording producer, Richard Carrington. They agreed about how enjoyable and illuminating it is to hear poets reading their work and about how regrettable it was that, even in the recent past, many important poets had not been properly recorded.

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