A Poetry Archive recording by

Charles Causley

Tracklisting

These poems come from a special recording for the Poetry Archive:

  • 1 -
    "Nursery Rhyme of Innocence & Experience"

  • 2 -
    "Chief Petty Officer"

  • 3 -
    "Recruiting Drive"

  • 4 -
    "Ballad of the Bread Man"

  • 5 -
    "I am the Great Sun"

  • 6 -
    "At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux"

  • 7 -
    "Timothy Winters"

  • 8 -
    "Armistice Day"

  • 9 -
    "At the Grave of John Clare"

  • 10 -
    "By St. Thomas Water"

  • 11 -
    "Innocent's Song"

  • 12 -
    "Healing a Lunatic Boy"

  • 13 -
    "The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond"

  • 14 -
    "Trusham"

  • 15 -
    "I Saw a Jolly Hunter"

  • 16 -
    "My Young Man's A Cornishman"

  • 17 -
    "Miller's End"

  • 18 -
    "Who?"

  • 19 -
    "A Wedding Portrait"

  • 20 -
    "Forbidden Games"

  • 21 -
    "Kelly Wood"

  • 22 -
    "In San Remo"

  • 23 -
    "In Asciano"

  • 24 -
    "In a Junior School"

  • 25 -
    "I am the Song"

  • 26 -
    "Eden Rock"


Extras

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  • Farewell, Aggie Weston, Aldington, Kent, Hand and Flower Press, 1951 - out of print
  • Survivor's Leave, Hand and Flower Press, 1953 - out of print
  • Peninsula: an anthology of verse from the West country (editor), London, Macdonald, 1957 - out of print
  • Union Street, London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957 - out of print
  • Johnny Alleluia, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961 - out of print
  • Rising Early: story poems and ballads of the 20th century (editor), Leicester, Brockhampton Press, 1964 - out of print
  • Underneath the Water, London, Macmillan, 1968 - out of print
  • Figure of 8, Macmillan, 1969 - out of print
  • Figgie Hobbin: poems for children, Macmillan, 1970 (new ed. 2002)
  • Dawn and Dusk: poems of our time (editor), Brockhampton Press, 1972 - out of print
  • The Puffin Book of Magic Verse (editor), London, Puffin, 1974 - out of print
  • The Hill of the Fairy Calf, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1976 - out of print
  • The Puffin Book of Salt-Sea Verse (editor), Puffin, 1978 - out of print
  • The Animal's Carol, Macmillan, 1978 - out of print
  • The Batsford Book of Stories in Verse for Children (editor), London, B. T. Batsford, 1979 - out of print
  • 25 Poems by Hamdija Demirovic (translator), Richmond, Surrey, Keepsake Press, 1980 - out of print
  • The Sun, Dancing: Christian Verse (editor), Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Kestrel, 1982 - out of print
  • Secret Destinations, Macmillan, 1984 - out of print
  • Early in the Morning, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Viking Kestrel, 1986 - out of print
  • Jack the Treacle Eater, Macmillan Children's, 1987 (new ed. 2002)
  • A Field of Vision, Macmillan, 1988 - out of print
  • The Young Man of Cury and other poems, Macmillan Children's, 1991 (new ed. 2003)
  • Bring in the Holly, London, Frances Lincoln, 1992
  • All Day Saturday and other poems, Macmillan Children's, 1994 (new ed. 2003)
  • Going to the Fair: selected poems for children, Puffin, 1996 - out of print
  • Selected Poems for Children, Macmillan Children's, 1997
  • Collected Poems for Children, Macmillan Children's, 2000
  • Collected Poems 1951-2000, London, Picador, 2000
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  • The Poetry Quartets 8, Audio Cassette, The British Council/Bloodaxe, 2004
  • Charles Causley Reading from his poems, The Poetry Archive, 2005
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