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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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Poetry Matters is an exciting on-line poetry magazine which provides a fresh, dynamic perspective on poetry issues through a mix of news, reviews and comment. It should appeal to students in the final stages of their secondary education, but its content and scope will also be of interest and relevance to the wider poetry community. |
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News
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19th Forward Prize for Poetry
Best Collection Shortlist for the 19th Forward Prize for Poetry
- Seamus Heaney - Human Chain
- Lachlan Mackinnon - Small Hours
- Sinead Morrissey - Through the Square Window
- Robin Robertson - The Wrecking Light
- Fiona Sampson - Rough Music
- Jo Shapcott - Of Mutability
- The winner will be announced on 6 October in London.
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Jo Shapcott and Daljit Nagra
Jo Shapcott and Daljit Nagra in Woodstock, Oxfordshire
The Woodstock Bookshop and Tower Poetry are presenting an evening of poetry at The Woodstock Arms, 8 Market Street, Woodstock on Wednesday 25 August at 8pm.
Entry is £4 (students free) but all tickets must be booked in advance from The Woodstock Bookshop, 01993 812760 or info@woodstockbookshop.co.uk.
Latest Audio
Listen to the prizewinners read their poems from both the 2009 and 2008 Christopher Tower Poetry Competitions.
Listen to 'Feather - small and still', one of the 2009 prizewinning poems, by Sophie Stephenson-Wright, set to music by Jonathan Pitkin and sung by Heather Uren, accompanied
by Guy Newbury - first performed on 24 March 2010.

