Summer School 2012
The 8th Tower Poetry Summer School for young poets aged 18-23 will be held in Christ Church, Oxford from 28-31 August 2012. The tutors will be Alan Gillis (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) and Kevin Young (Emory University, Atlanta, USA).
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MEGAN OWENS Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge, Suffolk Jane Loudon
Early spring, you untied your hair Looking back at dust through dew-dusk windows And combed it with the prongs of a shell; Chicoreus Dilectus, the snail that had pocketed And smoothed itself into the corner of your eye, Mused: ‘Painted Lady, wander, wander, When those wings failed did you twist them In your palm; those superfluous wings that were Gilded pretty like moonstone?’ Vanessa Cardui, too, had mused Through the husky skin of metamorphosis; From which the day, and the evening, and the pink lip of sky Warmed its back and yawned, pacing the new ground.
Tulipa; red, gold, white Grew collectively across a well tended lawn, You noted their knell, clung onto each coiled bulb In your own soiled hands. Tulipa; red, white, gold Grew over the stallion and his princely mane Her heart still pinned to his chest. Şirin! Şirin, bőylece, o zaman prens dűstű.
Set as footnote ‘Shirin, shirin! look the prince has fallen’ basically a Turkish love story where the prince fell tulips rose from his blood. Life through death and the promise of love. Shirin is the princess. |
About Tower Poetry
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.
Publications
Poems from the 7th Tower Poetry Summer School 2010
Edited by Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott
The Twelve contains 56 poems from the 12 young poets who attended the Summer School.