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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Sophie MackintoshYsgol Y Preseli, Crymych On Illumination and Reasons to Flyand I turned to him with eyes exuberantall burning up in realisation “we’re behind but not too late – we can just go, hitch our packs to sunburnt shoulders (don’t mind the pain in fact positively embrace it – belated besotted blistered revolutionaries you see that’s what we are, what we need to be)” tongue frenetic and prophetic with the ultimate truth and all the secrets that suddenly blaze and curl, unfurl across the sky – “there is a WORLD, a whole WORLD and it is there for the taking, drenched in technicolour and dreamscape with all that aloneness and peace the likes of which we have never seen, and all the rest, we don’t even know we’re alive – are we going to trip somnolent along these streets forever more – like snagged records repeating the chorus until you feel sick; or déjà vu with its sense of (something wrong something missing)? we have to fly before we are too old to be crazy – lets run before they root our feet right into the ground” spoke parallel to the manic beating of my heart, its beautiful hallucinatory arrhythmia inducing this clearness, the reason for flight set out like sequence “can’t you see it’s written everywhere?” joyous palms flung skyward – look to the clouds “oh we are going to escape and find it all; we are going to find everything” |
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.