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@annaxrobinson is our third place winner for the 2026 Charles Causley International Poetry Competition ✨ Go check out her full winning poem ‘To my parents, who didn’t know” at causleytrust.org/blog ☺️ #poetry #poetrycompetition #charlescausley

Our second place winner for the 2026 Charles Causley International Poetry Competition is a remarkable work 🏅 Do make sure to read the full poem at causleytrust.org/blog ☺️ #poetry #charlescausley #poetrycompetition

Thanks to @r.l.drake for helping me set this little line on her amazing letterpress & gifting this beautiful print of Cyprus Well 🎶 alas I still got muddled with my Cs 🙃 because time

✨We are so excited to share our selected winning poems for this year’s 2026 Charles Causley International Poetry Competion ✨ We are starting today with @jenferoze ‘s “You are strapping your toddler into the car seat”, our first place winner 🥇 Over the next few days all poems will be posted to our blog at causleytrust.org/blog ☺️ Go read the full poem(s)📚 #poetry #poetrycompetition #internationalpoetrycompetition #charlescausley

The most fantastic weekend of poetry and community at the Launceston Poetry Festival 2026! The best poetry vibes all weekend. Thank you to everyone who came along - the brilliant, brilliant poets and performers, the audiences, volunteers, organisers and sponsors. These are just a few 📷 Head to our Stories Highlights for many more photos and videos from the weekend ❤️ @misslizberry , @fionabensonpoetry , @luukekennnard , @victoriaadukweibulley , @r.l.drake , @ellafrears , @monaarshipoetry , @shuttlepenelope , @luckyflowerhowe @gulliemotpress @blackcatbooks2024 @cathygalvinwords

Just back from am amazing weekend of poetry with Launceston Poetry Festival where an incredible group of poets invited us into their world. Thanks to @causleytrust for organising. I was so pleased to play a small part and to meet up again with some of my favourite poets. What a treat it was @misslizberry @monaarshipoetry @shuttlepenelope @luckyflowerhowe @cathygalvinwords @rachellong @victoriaadukweibulley @ellafrears and everyone else.

What a magical start to the Launceston Poetry Festival 2026 ✨ Day one brought moving readings from schools and the community, inspiring conversations, and an open mic with Ella Frears Another full day today! We hope you’ll join for readings from leading contemporary poets, as well as local voices, workshops, walks, talks and free events across the town. Tickets are still available for some events and will be available on the door. We’d love to see you there :-) 📖💫

THIS WEEKEND! Come join us in Launceston for a weekend of poetry and community 📚✨ Poets including Rowan Williams, @luukekennnard , @ellafrears , Sarah Howe, Rachel Long, @misslizberry , Philip Gross, @monaarshipoetry , @victoriaadukweibulley , @shuttlepenelope , @cathygalvinwords , and lots more. There will be loads going on around Launceston town too. @r.l.drake is running a letterpress workshop, and Guillemot’s @luke.a.thompson will be talking to @chattobooks Poetry Editor @luckyflowerhowe about poetry publishing. There are walks and talks, tours of Charles Causley’s house - a full weekend of poetry-related community. Lots of FREE events too! Tickets for everything are available through @causleytrust : /launceston-poetry-festival/

THIS SATURDAY!!! Join award-winning poets Victoria Adukwei Bulley @victoriaadukweibulley and Luke Kennard @luukekennnard for a poetry reading, featuring selections from their back catalogues alongside work from their latest collections, including QUIET (Victoria) and The Book of Jonah (Luke). 🗓 Saturday, 2 May ⏰ 2:45–3:45pm 📍 Town Hall – Guildhall 🎟 £10 🎫 Tickets: /events/launcestonfestival/2051491 Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist. An alumna of the Barbican Young Poets and recipient of an Eric Gregory award. Her debut pamphlet, Girl B, was published by the African Poetry Book Fund in 2017. Her debut collection, Quiet, was published by Faber in 2022. It was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and won the Rathbones Folio Prize for Poetry and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Luke Kennard is a poet and novelist. He is the author of six collections of poetry. His first book, The Solex Brothers, won him an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2005. His second, The Harbour Beyond the Movie made him the youngest poet to be shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.

☕️A CAUSLEY BREAKFAST WITH PETROC TRELAWNY A reminder to book your ticket to enjoy a light breakfast with special guest Petroc Trelawny, listening to readings of Charles’s poetry and finding out more about the Launceston poet’s life, work and legacy. 🗓 Sunday 3 May ⏰ 0930 - 1030 📍 Cyprus Well 🎟 £10 Book your tickets /events/launcestonfestival/2054109 #launceston #poetry #cornwall #poetryfestival

The Launceston Poetry Festival is only 1 week away. Come join us in Launceston for a weekend of poetry and community 📚✨ Poets including Rowan Williams, @luukekennnard , @ellafrears , Sarah Howe, Rachel Long, @misslizberry , Philip Gross, @monaarshipoetry , @victoriaadukweibulley , @shuttlepenelope , @cathygalvinwords , and lots more. There will be loads going on around Launceston town too. @r.l.drake is running a letterpress workshop, and Guillemot’s @luke.a.thompson will be talking to @chattobooks Poetry Editor @luckyflowerhowe about poetry publishing. There are walks and talks, tours of Charles Causley’s house - a full weekend of poetry-related community. Lots of FREE events too! Tickets for everything are available through @causleytrust : /launceston-poetry-festival/

As of today and ahead of this years Launceston Poetry Festival, all of the selected entries for our ‘Festival’ themed submissions call are up on our blog The Maker🎡 Check out these sneak peaks from each poem and read the full works and poet bios at causleytrust.org/blog ✨ A huge thank you to all who submitted their work 😊 #literaryblog #submissionscall #creativewriting #poetry