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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Oxford, OX1 1DP
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Poetry and War (Friday 26 March 2010) Winner of the 2005 Forward Poetry Prize with Legion, David Harsent's poetry includes versions of the work of Bosnian poet Goran Simic, notably Sprinting from the Graveyard (1997), written during the siege of Sarajevo. Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford, Jon Stallworthy's works include seven volumes of poetry, and biographies of Wilfred Owen and Louis MacNeice and most recently Survivors' Songs. Elaine Feinstein is a prizewinning poet, novelist and biographer. She has written more than thirty books. Her latest collection of poems, Cities, comes out from Carcanet in June 2010. Tim Kendall is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter, and author of a collection of poems, a war-poetry blog, and several books on modern war poetry. Francine Stock presents Radio 4's The Film Programme and is currently writing her third novel.
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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.