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).
Tower Poetry,
Christ Church,
Oxford, OX1 1DP
Tel: 01865 286591
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| Smith-Laing, Tim |
The Observer's Book of BirdsThese bright jays are rare jewels set in jet The crows are a just darker marquetry, Larger and blacker still the ravens Their calls like shaken matchboxes but the calculation of our fortunes is beyond us. Above us swallows flit and strive,looking for their own weight in insects. These bodies have lain themselves down After a highly commended entry in the Christopher Tower poetry competition in 2003, Tim Smith-Laing contributed to the Parachute Silk collection published as a result of the Tower Summer School that year. He has been published in Agenda Broadsheet, and was one of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year in 2004. He is currently studying English at Pembroke College, Cambridge University. |
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.