'A Tower Miscellany brings together new poems by a number of poets associated with Tower Poetry from 2000-2010. The book also includes prose pieces which offer an idea of Tower Poetry’s activities in that time. The book is not a comprehensive report on Tower’s activities over the first ten years of its existence; rather, it’s a snapshot of how Tower Poetry looked in 2010, which foregrounds new creative material from poets with whom we are proud to have been associated. Some of these are already well-known; others will be new names to poetry-readers: all embody in their work the creative originality which Tower exists to promote.' (Peter McDonald)
Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements; Promoting Poetry – Peter McDonald; Three Poems – Alex Bell; Three Poems – C.E.J. Simons; A Tower Summer School – Helen Mort; Three Poems – Stephen Burt; El Alto Fairytale – Emily Middleton; The Workshop Tradition – Olivia Cole; Notting Hill Carnival – Paul Abbott; Three Poems – Miriam Gamble; The Fascination of What’s Difficult – C.E.J. Simons; Two Poems – Nicholas Pierpan; Two Poems – Olivia Cole; Three Poems – Helen Mort; The Tower Symposium, 2003 – Stephen Burt; Four Poems – Frances Leviston; Tower Prize Judges, 2000-2010; Notes on Contributors.
Edited by Peter McDonald, with contributions from Paul Abbott, Alex Bell, Stephanie Burt, Olivia Cole, Miriam Gamble, Frances Leviston, Emily Middleton, Helen Mort, Nicholas Pierpan, and C.E.J. Simons.