THE TWELVE

Poems from the Tower Poetry Summer School 2010

Edited by Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott

Daniel Barrow – Nicholas Beaumont – Julia Goroszeniuk – Emily Harrison – Hugo Havranek – Leila Morad – Anna Savory – Honora Spicer – Chloe Stopa-Hunt – Fred Temple – Charlotte Turner – Katie Woods

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Previous winners of the Christopher Tower poetry competitions from 2008 and 2010 as well as other young writers, worked with Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott during the course of the annual Tower Poetry Summer School held in August 2010 to produce fifty-six poems. These show a remarkable range of voice and fluency with the achievement of some memorable poetry and have been published in a booklet of 82 pages. The tutors talked about their own ways of approaching poetry, and gave a reading organized by the Woodstock Bookshop during the week. The Twelve is the result of another successful Tower Poetry Summer School – the seventh year of its existence.

'We were impressed by how much their work had developed over the week, showing maturity, vision, formal skill and considerable invention. The students read with clarity and confidence and reminded us, through their poems, why Tower Poetry is so important.' Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott (from the Preface)

Contents

2nd June 1916; From Even Ashes; The Orchards, Breathing; Edge – Laika; Jigsaw - Dechoreography; Reveille; L'Heure Bleue – It Started With Odd Socks; Le Fléau De Ma Vie; Trumpet; Post-it Notes; Old Age – To his absent love; On not being Tony; Apollo's Ghazal; Bitesize rhetoric; Train to Nowhere – 'I knew this sea was eternal, I was eternal'; Nectar; High Sea; Felicity; Peckover House; Before – Rubai; Jack-A-Roe; Ghazal; Delia; Roundel Redouble – August gusts; Unstuffed; Untitled; The basis awakeness; My decision; Untitled – I emulate the gentleness; Carolina; The Bacchae; Ghazal – Holocaust; Ec-Socio; Hurt; Voices; Foundation; Epilepsy; To the Slums – Tech.; Get me wrong; Musings of a coffee shop worker watching elderly patrons; This is it.; Life beyond – The Festival; Tattoo; Donors; "Brazen Bull".

978-0-9549932-7-6 / Publication Date October 2011/ 82pp/ 12 photographs/ £7.50

The winning poems from the 2011 Christopher Tower Poetry Prize brought together in this exclusive digital-only edition.

Click here to download a special digital edition of 'Simplicity', containing all the winning poems. (583kb)

Poems from the Tower Poetry Summer School 2009

Edited by Jane Draycott and Frances Leviston

Beth Aitman – Jamie Baxter – Alexander Freer – Emma Jourdan –
Sophie Mackintosh – Suzanne Magee – Annabella Massey –
Ashley McMullin – Paul Merchant – Amelia Penny – Leslie Smith –
Tess Somervell – Sophie Stephenson-Wright – Iona Twiston-Davies

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Previous winners of the Christopher Tower poetry competitions from 2008 and 2009 as well as other young writers, worked with Jane Draycott and Frances Leviston during the course of the annual Tower Poetry Summer School held in August 2009 to produce forty-two poems.  These show a remarkable range of voice and fluency with the achievement of some memorable poetry and have been published in a booklet of 64 pages. The tutors talked about their own ways of approaching poetry, and were also joined in readings by Michael Schmidt, Professor of Poetry, University of Glasgow and Editorial & Managing Director of Carcanet.  Panado is the result of another successful Tower Poetry Summer School – the sixth year of its existence.

‘She has been a writer for most of her life, but never tried poetry until she heard about the Christopher Tower Poetry Prize.  She’s very grateful for it.’ Iona Twiston-Davies

Contents

Forest Man; The Key Kitchen; The Village – At Your Bedside; Farquhar Road; Bluebells – Petit Saut with Persian Rug; Commute; Spanish Song – Body; Seeded; Lockstitch – Pavor Nocturnus; Barbershop; Winter 1995 – Jazz, in a Place they Wouldn’t Normally Have It; mirror therapy; mercury – Cartography; The Fig; Moon through Your Window – Compost; Paper Planes; The Veteran – Peru; Distance; 1925 – Snow Day; Belt; The Painter’s Pigeons – For Want of a Garden; Underground; The Compulsive Liar – Panado; At Silver Heights; Pineapple rockets – Gibraltar Rock; The Square Mile; Alone On A Wide Blue Sea – Night Dust; The Silent Street Festival; Running From Bones. Poets' Photographs.

978-0-9549932-6-9 / Publication Date 25 August 2010/ 64pp/ 14 photographs/ £7.50

The winning poems from the 2010 Christopher Tower Poetry Prize brought together in this exclusive digital-only edition.

Click here to download a special digital edition of 'Promises', containing all the winning poems. (1.64mb)

A Tower Miscellany brings together new poems by a number of poets who have been associated with Tower Poetry over the past decade. The book also includes prose pieces which give some idea of Tower Poetry's activities in that time. The book is not a comprehensive report on Tower's activities over the first ten years of its existence; rather, it's a snapshot of how Tower Poetry looks in 2010, which foregrounds new creative material from poets with whom we are proud to have been associated.

Seasick Blue is a new collection of twenty-nine poems written during the annual Tower Poetry Summer School in August 2008. Previous winners of the Christopher Tower poetry competitions between 2006 and 2008, as well as other young writers, worked with Jane Draycott and Frances Leviston to produce poems with a remarkable range of voice and fluency. The collection was published on 26 August 2009 and is available now to order.

The winning poems from the 2009 Christopher Tower Poetry Prize brought together in this exclusive digital-only edition. 

Click here to download a special digital edition of 'Doubt', containing all the winning poems. (1.7mb)

Previous winners of the Christopher Tower poetry competitions in 2006 and 2007, as well as other young writers, worked with Fiona Sampson and John Redmond during the course of the annual Tower Poetry Summer School held in August 2007 to produce forty-two poems. These show a remarkable range of voice and fluency. The fifty-two page booklet was published on 27 August 2008, and copies are now available to order.

The winning poems from the 2008 Christopher Tower Poetry Prize are brought together in this exclusive digital-only edition.

Click here to download a special digital edition of 'Change', containing all the winning poems. (2.6mb)