I am Christ’s Boy

by Laurence Green

Described by his close friend Ted Hughes as ’the greatest Poet Laureate we never had’, Charles Causley is today recognised as an icon of 20th Century poetry.

Schoolmaster, war veteran and resolute Cornishman, he spent almost his whole life in the town of his birth. Influenced by his own ancestry and family; the history, stories and characters of his home town; his Royal Navy wartime service; and the children he taught; Causley’s work enjoys the rare distinction of being universally loved by readers and critically acclaimed by literary academics.

But how did this working class boy from humble beginnings come to be hailed among the greats of post-war British writing?

Laurence Green, author of Causley biography All Cornwall Thunders At My Door (2013), examines, for the first time, the poet’s relationship with religion, suggesting that a life-long fascination and struggle with faith is what lay at the heart of his genius.

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