Useful Links
We hope that the Tower Poetry website will act as a springboard to finding out more about poetry from other sources. The list below gives a good starting point for those interested in reading and writing poetry. Our thanks go to Emily Middleton for providing many of the contemporary links.
Arts Festival sites
The Poetry Trust
www.thepoetrytrust.org
Delivers from Suffolk a year-round live and digital programme, creative education opportunities, courses, prizes and publications.
The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
www.sundaytimes-oxfordliteraryfestival.co.uk
Held annually in early April, there are children and schools events as well as creative writing programmes.
Competitions
Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award
www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/competitions/fyp
Poetry prize organised by the Poetry Society for writers aged 11-17.
Manchester Poetry Prize
www.manchesterwritingcompetition.co.uk/poetry
Includes a £200 prize for 18-25 year-olds.
Magazines
The Cadaverine
www.thecadaverine.com
An online magazine showcasing creative work from writers under 25.
The Poetry Kit
www.poetrykit.org
A comprehensive online resource for poets including listings of competitions, courses and events.
Pomegranate Poetry
www.pomegranate.me.uk
Online zine celebrating and publishing the best new poetry from young writers, which also hosts an active poetry forum.
Oxford Poetry
www.oxfordpoetry.co.uk
Published twice a year, Oxford Poetry is the oldest poetry magazine in the world.
The Gallery Press
www.gallerypress.com
Publishes poetry, drama and prose by some of Ireland's leading contemporary writers.
Signals
www.signalsmagazine.co.uk
Interviews, reviews and poetry
Oxford connections
Christ Church, Oxford
www.chch.ox.ac.uk
Home of Tower Poetry
Clutag Press
www.clutagpress.com
A small but prestigious poetry press sponsored, in part, by Tower Poetry
Oxford University
www.ox.ac.uk
Check it out for poetry debates and the Professor of Poetry’s public lectures each term
Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre
http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/poetry
For research and discussion of issues surrounding C20th and C21st poetry; to promote poetry in the local community and to encourage connections between poets, academics and readers of poetry.
Resources for poets
Every Poet
www.everypoet.com
Includes an online forum and classic poems.
The Guardian Poetry Workshop
books.guardian.co.uk/poetryworkshop
Each month a different poet sets a writing exercise and chooses their favourite responses.
Poetry Landmarks
www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/landmarks
Features a clickable map with details of hundreds of poetry bookshops, events, libraries, publishers and magazines in different regions.
Poetry Magazines
www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
An archive of 20th and 21st century UK poetry magazines.
Poetry Portal
www.poetry-portal.com
‘A directory of worldwide poetry online’, this website offers literally hundreds of links to competitions, publishers, e-zines and poetry sites based in many different areas of the world.
The Poetry Tool
www.bbc.co.uk/blast/writing/tipsandtools/poetryengine/index.shtml
An online tool that lets you mix and edit poems.
Glossary of Poetic Terms
www.poeticbyway.com/glossary2.html
Rhyming Dictionary
Poetry Out Loud
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/index.shtml
Historical poetry recordings.
YoungPoets.ca
www.youngpoets.ca
Featuring poems from young Canadian poets.
Resources for Teachers
Poetry Class
www.poetryclass.net
Taking the fear out of teaching poetry
English Association Poetry
www.le.ac.uk/engassoc/poetry.html
This is a new site from the English Association dedicated to the teaching of poetry. It has been developed with the encouragement of the Qualification and Curriculum Authority (QCA) as an outcome of its English 21 exercise.
The Poetry Society
www.poetrysociety.org.uk
A great site for events, publications, café in London, promotions and prizes
The Saison Poetry Library
www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/about
Housing the Arts Council Collection at South Bank Centre, London
The Scottish Poetry Library
www.spl.org.uk
The place for poetry in Scotland, for the regular reader, the serious student or the casual browser
The British Library
www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/literature/poetry/poetry.html
Find pages written by the BL’s experts on poetry
Pirandello
www.pirandello.org.uk
Pirandello and New Writing South aim to create an environment in the south of England in which creative writers and new writing can flourish
The Poetry Archive
www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive
The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.
