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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| Winners 2010:Commended:Julia_Goroszeniuk |
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JULIA GOROSZENIUK St Paul’s Girls’ School, London A Portrait Painted Scarfless
you promised me an explosion of lateness; you digging for your tie your collar stuck up like tail feathers; me coiling my scarf importuning your tousled bed for my watch while you pull on that ridiculous sock. you promised me the bewildered twilight of your room.
you promised me snow; our penguin situation, all straight lines pared down to white, and us, our foggy Cava Glass a Moet stand-in, our eyes braced against all that space.
you promised me over the ticket barrier; you promised me the lapels of your coat.
and, unpromised, you gave me your honest cold hand and I made it mine. |
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.