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The Tower Poetry Summer School 2006

8-11 August 2006

‘I found the experience both exhilarating and productive.’

‘The summer school had a profound effect on my approach to poetry.’

‘It was such a unique and rewarding experience.’

‘Christ Church was inspiring and wholly enjoyable, and I thank Tower Poetry for creating such an environment for creativity.’

These are just a few of the views expressed by the students who attended the third Tower Poetry Summer School in August 2006. For three days, they had the opportunity to discuss and write poetry in the company of two inspirational tutors, Jane Draycott and Dr John Redmond.

Examples of the students' work are featured in:

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Publication date: December 2006

 

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.

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Publications

The TwelveThe Twelve:

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.