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