Summer School 2010
The 7th Tower Poetry Summer School (24-27 August) for young poets aged 18-23 will be held in Christ Church Oxford.
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The Christopher Tower Poetry Competition, the UK's most valuable prize for young poets, is once again open for entries, and this year students between 16-18 years of age are challenged to write a poem on the theme of 'Promises'
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| Jitterwhirring: Poems from Tower Poetry 2007 |
JitterwhirringPoems from Tower Poetry 2007Publication date: 27 August 2008
Felicity Ann Alma - Sara Doron - David Devanny - Natalie Harding - Sophie Mackintosh - Jennifer Clarke - Laura Marsh - Alice Malin - Daniel Payne - Julia Rampen - Colette Sensier - Ruth Eleri James - Ahren Warner - Alice Alexandre
ISBN 978-0-9549932-3-8
Previous winners of the Christopher Tower poetry competitions in 2006 and 2007, as well as other young writers, worked with Fiona Sampson and John Redmond during the course of the annual Tower Poetry Summer School held in August 2007 to produce forty-two poems. These show a remarkable range of voice and fluency and will be published on 27 August 2008 in a booklet of fifty-two pages. The tutors talked about their own ways of approaching poetry, and were also joined in readings by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Jitterwhirring is the result of another successful Tower Poetry Summer School – the fourth year of its existence. Contents Suicide from the Clock Tower – The Original Sin Tattoo – Dead Wood – Ekphrasis (Plainsong) – Plop – Portrait – Shopping in Oxford – Stencil-King – The Ninth – Loosen Up – Sawtooth – Tracks – Villa Flora – Piano Practice – Jitterwhirring – Beckham – August – Thief Tattoo Encyclopaedia – Desert Island Discs – Front – Salsa Dancer – Fish Market – Riot – Horoscope – Kebab Shop Confessional – Hot Glass – X Marks the Spot – Rehearsing Wagner’s Meistersingers – Other Words – Nightsong (for Bobo) – Minister – The Day you heard Your Father Died – Vocalisthenics – Knitting with Fate – Toad – Air Traffic Control – Base – Cf. Black on Maroon – La Brisure – Even if it is Sunny – Spacecraft – A Second |
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Tower Poetry exists to encourage and challenge everyone who reads or writes poetry. Funded by a generous bequest to Christ Church, Oxford, by the late Christopher Tower, the aims of Tower Poetry are clear: to stimulate an enjoyment and critical appreciation of poetry, particularly among young people in education, and to challenge people to write their own poetry. Creative writing should be a central element in literary education, and learning about writing poetry can help students to think about ways of reading poetry.