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New rev. ed. Originally published: Hands to dance. London : Carroll & Nicholson, 1951.


Charles Causley (1917- 2003)
* Served in Royal Navy 1940-46. Later said his experiences in the navy inspired him to become a poet. Farewell, Aggie Weston (1951) and Survivor's Leave (1953).


Charles Causley (1917-2003) was born and brought up in Launceston, Cornwall and lived there for most of his life. When he was only seven his father died from wounds sustained during the First World War. This early loss and his own experience of service in the Second World War affected Causley deeply. an experience he later wrote about in a book of short stories, Hands to Dance