Jitterwhirring

Poems from Tower Poetry 2007

Felicity Ann Alma - Sara Doron - David Devanny - Natalie Harding - Sophie Mackintosh - Jennifer Clarke - Laura Marsh - Alice Malin - Daniel Payne - Julia Rampen - Colette Sensier - Ruth Eleri James - Ahren Warner - Alice Alexandre

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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 and will be published on 27 August 2008 in a booklet of fifty-two pages. The tutors talked about their own ways of approaching poetry, and were also joined in readings by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Jitterwhirring is the result of another successful Tower Poetry Summer School – the fourth year of its existence.

Contents

Suicide from the Clock Tower – The Original Sin Tattoo – Dead Wood – Ekphrasis (Plainsong) – Plop – Portrait – Shopping in Oxford – Stencil-King – The Ninth – Loosen Up – Sawtooth – Tracks – Villa Flora – Piano Practice – Jitterwhirring – Beckham – August – Thief Tattoo Encyclopaedia – Desert Island Discs – Front – Salsa Dancer – Fish Market – Riot – Horoscope – Kebab Shop Confessional – Hot Glass – X Marks the Spot – Rehearsing Wagner’s Meistersingers – Other Words – Nightsong (for Bobo) – Minister – The Day you heard Your Father Died – Vocalisthenics – Knitting with Fate – Toad – Air Traffic Control – Base – Cf. Black on Maroon – La Brisure – Even if it is Sunny – Spacecraft – A Second