Congratulations Class of 2017. You're part of our history now

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Channel: University of Birmingham · 2017 · Education

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Here's a special video for you produced by our Development Alumni Relations Office featuring a poem written especially for you by alumna Jan Watts.
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Time to Turn by Jan Watts (MPhil Playwriting Studies, 2008)
Time to turn to sweep and seek and find.
Time to turn to see and set and grasp.
Time to turn to shine, to whizz and fizz.
Time to turn to fledge and hedge and edge in Brum.
Time to think,
and think and hear and work and play.
Time to turn to other clocks that echo back,
that echo back,
that echo back to Old Joe
and that common bond of tick tock. 

Featuring the voices of:
Jan Watts (MPhil Playwriting Studies, 2008)
Michael Brown (BMus Music, 1996; MA Music, 1998)
David Powell (BA Ancient History and Archaeology, 2003)
Heather Owen (BA International Relations, 2013)
Anne-Marie Vassiliadis

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