![]() ![]() ![]() The sadness is, I don’t think Causley was ever comfortable with who he was.” Although the novelist is wary about the language he uses, recently telling the Guardian: “I’d only say someone was gay if I feel they’re comfortable with who they are. But I think my research proves at least one ‘fact’ isn’t true…”Ĭareful study of the late poet’s letters and diaries left Gale in no doubt that Causley was gay and probably had an affair with a fellow officer during the war. “They say he was born in Cornwall in 1914,” Gale continues, “served in the navy during the Second World War, then went home to spend the rest of his life working as a primary school teacher and living with his mother. There was no bad behaviour at all.” Official biographies of Causley – best known for the poems Timothy Winters and Eden Rock – are brief and quiet. He had no suicidal wives, he engaged in no alcohol or drug abuse. ![]() “Charles Causley is probably the least sexy poet in the English canon,” says Patrick Gale. ![]()
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