Mary mary magdalene poem charles causley6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() In 2000 he was awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize. He later won a Cholmondeley Award (1971) and the Ingersoll Foundation T. He served on the Poetry Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1962-6 and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1967. ![]() In 19 he was awarded Travel Scholarships by the Society of Authors. ![]() Union Street: Poems (1957) included poems from both collections and was published with an introduction by the writer Edith Sitwell.Īfter the war he trained to be a teacher, teaching at the grammar school in Launceston, and became literary editor of two BBC radio magazines, 'Apollo in the West' and 'Signature' (1953-6). He began writing plays in the 1930s including Runaway (1936) and The Conquering Hero (1937), and served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, an experience he wrote about in Hands to Dance: Short Stories (1951), and in his first two collections of poetry, Farewell, Aggie Weston (1951) and Survivor's Leave (1953). Prize-winning poet, playwright and children's author Charles Causley was born in Launceston, Cornwall, on 24 August 1917, and was educated at Launceston College and Peterborough Training College. ![]()
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