Once again, the Tower Poetry Summer School produced some exciting new writing and enthusiastic debate under the direction of this year’s tutors, Fiona Sampson and John Redmond. The 14 students,… read more →
As part of the 2007 Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, Tower Poetry sponsored a reading by Jo Shapcott and Glyn Maxwell in celebration of W H Auden and Louis MacNeice,… read more →
W H Auden was an undergraduate at Christ Church in the 1920s, and returned to Oxford as Professor of Poetry in the late 1950s. Near the end of his life… read more →
For three days, students at the 2006 Summer School had the opportunity to discuss and write poetry in the company of two inspirational tutors, Jane Draycott and John Redmond. Here… read more →
Poems from the Tower Poetry Summer School 2006 Edited by Jane Draycott and John Redmond, participants who contributed to Search Engine were Meirion Jordan Patrick Macfarlane Colette Sensier Alice Malin… read more →
Tower Poetry organised a reading at the 2006 Oxford Literary Festival. Jane Yeh, Frances Leviston and Peter McDonald took part.
The second Tower Poetry Summer School was held between 9-12 August 2005. Examples of the students’ work written during workshops with Gillian Clarke and Polly Clark are featured in: Amulet:… read more →
In 2005 Tower Poetry’s sponsorship of Clutag Press helped publication of Geoffrey Hill*, A Treatise of Civil Power (2005) John Fuller, The Solitary Life (2005) Seamus Heaney, A Shiver (2005)… read more →
The event was introduced by Jon Stallworthy, and featured young poets who have been involved with Tower Poetry over the previous five years. The poets reading at the event are:… read more →
Five years of Tower Poetry Edited by Peter McDonald, participants who contributed to Tower Poets were Caroline Bird Olivia Cole Frances Leviston Anna Lewis Helen Mort Tim Smith-Laing Matthew Sperling… read more →