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