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| Seasick Blue: Poems from Tower Poetry 2008 |
Seasick BlueEdited by Jane Draycott and Frances Leviston
Poems from Tower Poetry 2008Publication date: 26 August 2009
Rees Arnott-Davies – John Clegg – Charlotte Geater – Antony Hurley – Annie Katchinska – Rowena Knight – Ailie MacDonald – Emily Middleton– Richard O'Brien – Colette Sensier
ISBN 978-0-9549932-4-5
Previous winners of the Christopher Tower poetry competitions between 2006 and 2008 as well as other young writers, worked with Jane Draycott and Frances Leviston during the course of the annual Tower Poetry Summer School held in August 2008 to produce twenty-nine poems. These show a remarkable range of voice and fluency and have been published in a booklet of fifty-six pages. The tutors talked about their own ways of approaching poetry, and were also joined in readings by Professor David Morley, National Teaching Fellow and Director: The Warwick Writing Programme. Seasick Blue is the result of another successful Tower Poetry Summer School – the fifth year of its existence. Contents Conjoined – America – Gorkie Cratur –Scenes from the Life of St Benedict – The Sting – Portrait of LeeMarvin As America – Graduation Wearing Salmon – Riddle – La VanilleCrocodile Farm, Mauritius – The Day the Revolution Came – Honey in theBible – Dry Land – Lost in Broadcast – Soft – Boil – Amalfi –Saint-Malo – The Turk – Massachusetts – Panic Attack – Charon'sPassengers – At Sea – Angel Beach – Breakfast with the Gods – PoppyHarvesting – The Faces – Exile – The Morning Garden – An August Eveningwith W.B.Yeats |
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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.