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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The judges of the Christopher Tower Prizes 2008 are Simon Armitage, Alan Jenkins, and Peter McDonald. Simon ArmitageSimon Armitage, born in Huddersfield in 1963, is the best-known British poet of his generation. He is a prolific writer, who has also worked in the genres of fiction and drama, and has been the author of notable translations and adaptations. Since Zoom! (1989) he has published many acclaimed books of poetry, including The Book of Matches (1993), The Dead Sea Poems (1995), The Universal Home Doctor (2002) and most recently Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid (2006). His Selected Poems appeared in 2001, and his translations of The Odyssey and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in 2006. Simon’s other work includes the novels Little Green Man (2001) and The White Stuff (2004), as well as the book of essays All Points North (1998) and (in collaboration with Glyn Maxwell) Moon Country (1996). Alan JenkinsAlan Jenkins was born in 1955 in Surrey, and he grew up in London. He is a widely acclaimed and admired poet, whose books are The Hot-House (1988), Greenheart (1990), Harm (1994) (winner of the Forward Prize), The Drift (2000) (shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize) and, most recently, A Shorter Life (2005) (shortlisted for the Forward Prize). Alan has worked for many years for the Times Literary Supplement, where he is Deputy Editor. Peter McDonaldBiography, poems and criticism |
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.