2019 (4)

• One week to go
• The competition has now closed
• Hurry – deadline today!
• The competition deadline is approaching!

2018 (22)

• Happy Holidays!
• Prizewinner Interviews
• How to Enter the Competition
• First Prize Winner 2017 Tate Standage reviews The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
• The 2018 Tower Competition First Prize Winner Taraneh Peryie – Video
• The 2018 Tower Competition Second Prize Winner Lucy Thynne – Video
• The 2018 Tower Competition Third Prize Winner Robbi Sher – Video
• The 2018 Tower Competition Commended Winner Annie Fan – Video
• Prizewinning Poems 2018 Available Online
• The 2018 Tower Competition Commended Winner Miranda Green – Video
• The 2018 Tower Competition Commended Winner Ziqi Yan – Video
• Summer School 2018 Gallery
• Tower Poetry Summer School 2018
• 2019 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition – Press Release
• A.E. Stallings Poetry Reading
• Tower Poetry Summer School 2018 Open for Applications
• The Award Ceremony in Pictures
• Winners 2018
• Winners Notified
• 2018 Competition Closed for Entries
• Competition Closing Soon!
• Competition Closing Soon

2017 (15)

• Flowers From The Dark
• 2018 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition video
• Clues Revealed
• 2018 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition – Press Release
• The Fourth Clue
• The Third Clue
• The Second Clue
• The First Clue
• 2001 – 2017 Winning Poems
• 2017 Tower Poetry competition
• The Quack Dentist
• An Architectural Fantasy
• Two Grotesque Heads
• The Wounded Centaur – Triumph of Love
• The Holy Face

2016 (17)

• Summer School 2016 Gallery
• 2017 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition – Press Release
• 2017 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition video
• Ed Pryor (Commended) – Driving Lesson
• Grace Fraser (Commended) – UFO Beach Abduction
• Natasha Blinder (Commended) – Nine Days
• Sophia West (Third prize) – The Awakening
• Ashani Lewis (Winner) – The most amazing experience
• Ashani Lewis (Winner) – Let the poem come to you
• Ashani Lewis (Winner) – If at first you don’t succeed…
• Ashani Lewis (Winner) – From unplaced entrant one year to winner the next
• Ashani Lewis (Winner) – So, how does it feel to have won?
• Ashani Lewis (Winner) – Flowers From The Dark
• Find out more about the Tower Poetry Summer School
• Summer School 2016
• 2016 Tower Poetry competition
• Launch of Peter McDonald’s The Homeric Hymns

2015 (17)

• Peter McDonald’s lecture to mark the 2015 relaunch of PN Review
• Poetry and Consensus: Michael Schmidt, William Wootten and Peter McDonald in conversation
• Tower Poetry Reviews 2004–2014: selected and introduced by Peter McDonald
• PN Review Lecture: ‘The Quarrel with Ourselves’: Poetry and Criticism
• Wonder 2016 – Press Release
• Something to be Said – book launch
• Isla Anderson (Winner) The Forensics of Salt-Licking
• Max Thomas (Second prize) Fusion
• Lewis Harrington (Third prize) Firewood
• Matt Ward (Commended) Purblind
• Andrew Wells (Commended) Closed Door
• 2015 Tower Poetry competition
• Concert commemorating the 50th anniversary of T S Eliot’s death
• Reviews
• Poetry reading – Helen Mort and Frances Leviston
• Something to be Said
• Amulet

2014 (10)

• Summer School 2014
• Poetry Reading – Carol Ann Duffy, and Oxford Youth Ambassador for Poetry, Azfa Awad
• Previous Summer School Tutors
• Dominic Hand (Winner) Annunciation
• Sam Buckton (2nd prizewinner) Hell-of-an Island
• Masha Voyles (3rd prizewinner) Bat Child Found!
• Alexander Shaw (Commended) How to Prepare for Bad News
• Charlie Holmes (Commended) Voyager
• Jessica Matthews (Commended) Current Affairs
• Phoebe Stuckes (Commended) Sciamachy

2013 (10)

• Reception at Buckingham Palace
• 2013 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition launched at the Marlborough School, Woodstock
• Earth-Quiet – book launch
• Earth-Quiet
• Azfa Ali (Winner) Origins
• Sarah Fletcher (Second prizewinner) Kraut Girl
• Erin Tunney (Third prizewinner) The Devil
• Kathryn Cussons (Commended) Investigation Details: Echo and Narcissus
• Luke van den Barselaar (Commended) Research
• Eva Wallace (Commended) Swimming in Loch Súilí (The Lake of Shadows)

2012 (4)

• Summer School 2012
• Professor Sir Geoffrey Hill in Conversation with Professor Peter McDonald on W.B. Yeats
• Poetry reading – Don Paterson and Christopher Reid
• 2012 Christopher Tower Poetry prizegiving – Voyages

2011 (2)

• Poetry reading – David Morley and Peter McDonald
• The Twelve

2010 (12)

• Reception at the American Ambassador’s residence
• Poetry reading – Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott
• Summer School 2010
• A reading by Don Paterson and Stephen Romer in Tower Poetry’s 10th anniversary year
• Poetry and War
• Trevor Millum: The Mouse and the Muse
• First performance of ‘Feather — small and still’
• A reading by Michael Longley in Tower Poetry’s 10th anniversary year
• A Tower Miscellany – book launch
• A Tower Miscellany
• Panado
• Emily Harrison (Winner) Love has no Larynx

2009 (4)

• Summer School 2009
• Poetry teaching – Gillian Clarke with Peter Buckroyd
• Seasick Blue
• First performance of ‘Feather – small and still’

2008 (3)

• Summer School 2008
• Tower Poetry sponsored Geoffrey Hill’s Poetry Reading at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
• Jitterwhirring

2007 (3)

• Summer School 2007
• Glyn Maxwell and Jo Shapcott – In Celebration of Auden and MacNeice
• In celebration of W H Auden

2006 (3)

• Summer School 2006
• Search Engine
• Tower Poetry at the Oxford Literary Festival

2005 (5)

• Summer School 2005
• Tower Poetry and the Clutag Press
• Poetry reading – introduced by Jon Stallworthy at the Oxford Literary Festival
• Tower Poets
• Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry

2004 (1)

• Tower Poetry at the Cheltenham Literary Festival

2003 (3)

• Parachute Silk: Icarus Poems
• Poetry reading – Anthony Thwaite and Peter McDonald
• Summer School 2003

2002 (1)

• Poetry reading – Andrew McNeillie and Peter McDonald