The Tower Poetry Summer School
Christ Church, Oxford

26-29 August 2008

All places on the 2008 summer school have now been filled.

Tower Poetry is offering young poets between the ages of 18-23 the chance to attend The annual Tower Poetry Summer School in 2008.  The residential school will give 12 young people the opportunity to develop their own writing and critical skills through a series of exciting and challenging workshops run by experienced tutors.  The course also offers readings by guest poets as well as visits to places of literary interest in Oxford.

The summer school will be held at Christ Church, Oxford, between 26-29 August, 2008.  All tuition and accommodation costs will be paid for by Tower Poetry.  The tutors will be Jane Draycott, a UK-based poet with a particular interest in sound art and collaborative and digital work and Frances Leviston, whose first volume of poems was shortlisted for this year’s T.S. Eliot Prize.

The course offers its students a unique and challenging opportunity to work with other writers.  At the end of the summer school, the students’ work will be collected and edited for publication in a poetry pamphlet.

To be eligible for the summer school, students should be usually resident in the UK.  They should be no younger than 18 years old, and no older than 23 years, on 26 August 2008.  Students will be selected for the course on the basis of written work. 

All places on the 2008 summer school have now been filled. If you applied and haven't yet heard from us pease contact the Tower Poetry office.

Further information about the summer school and other Tower Poetry initiatives can be found on the website or by contacting the Tower Poetry office