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
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| Pomery, Simon |
Page 1 of 4 Jeremiah‘He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret places’. Lamentations, 3:10
I dreamed I went out walking in the wood at home, a place I knew like the back of my hand, and with my back against a tree I stood to hear the river's source run underground.
Out from a grove of figs a lion stalked toward me, his mane swaying and his paws patrolling over the grass. With his gaze stuck on mine, I sat down in that awful peace.
Imagine my relief to see him go. Afraid to move, I watched as through the air he vanished, and in his place a vapour strode and settled in the likeness of a bear.
His dark claws spread like branches over me, and as I thought of all I had done wrong his roar breathed down the reek of rotten meat; my cries rose in the sky and turned to song. |
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.