‘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.’ (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”.
Edited by Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott, with contributions from Daniel Barrow, Nicholas Beaumont, Julia Goroszeniuk, Emily Harrison, Hugo Havranek, Leila Morad, Anna Savory, Honora Spicer, Chloe Stopa-Hunt, Fred Temple, Charlotte Turner, and Katie Woods.