Need inspiration for your poetry writing? On the Tower Poetry YouTube page we have filmed interviews of previous competition winners, all the way back to 2013. They talk about the… read more →
The Tower Poetry competition is one of the most lucrative poetry competitions for its age group, 16-18, with £5000 in prize money – and no entry fee! The requirements are… read more →
Tate Standage, first prize winner of the Tower Poetry Competition 2017 with the poem ‘rosetta’ and Tower Poetry Summer School student 2018 review a new translation of The Odyssey by Emily Wilson on… read more →
The last prizewinner video is of Taraneh Peryie, first prize winner in the 2018 competition with her excellent poem ‘Richard’. ‘Richard’ is built on a myth that King Richard… read more →
This week’s video is of Lucy Thynne who won the second prize in the 2018 competition for her poem ‘untold secret to my mother’. In this video she talks… read more →
Every week we will be publishing a short video featuring an interview with a prizewinner from the 2018 Tower Poetry Competition. This week’s video is of Robbi Sher, who… read more →
This week’s prizewinner video is of Annie Fan. In this video Commended Prize Winner Annie Fan reads her complex and excellent poem “How to Invert a Hyperbolic Function”, and talks… read more →
Last year’s prizewinning poems by Taraneh Peryie, Lucy Thynne, Robbi Sher, Annie Fan, Miranda Green, and Ziqi Yan are available here under “Previous Competitions”, along with winning poems from previous competitions… read more →
The next 2018 Prize Winner video we are publishing is of Miranda Green. In this video Commended Prize Winner Miranda Green reads and explains the story behind her secretive… read more →
As the Tower Poetry Competition 2019 has opened for entries it is the perfect time to learn and draw inspiration from previous winners. Watch commended prize winner in the… read more →