Summer School 2012
The 8th Tower Poetry Summer School for young poets aged 18-23 will be held in Christ Church, Oxford from 28-31 August 2012. The tutors will be Alan Gillis (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) and Kevin Young (Emory University, Atlanta, USA).
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| News and Events |
Latest News from Tower PoetryJanuary 2012 Chloe Stopa-Hunt (Tower Poetry's latest Featured Poet) reviews TS Eliot 2012 winner John Burnside's Black Cat Bone in Poetry Review. November 2011 Poetry London's Autumn 11 issue contains Ahren Warner's (Tower Poetry 2007 Summer School participant) poem Metousiosis and 'Balancing Affect and Intellect' on thought and expression in collections by Mark Ford, Carrie Etter, Liane Strauss and Kelly Grovier. Further details here. Nicholas Beaumont's (Tower Poetry 2010 Summer School participant) poem Before the Morning is also published in Cadaverine Magazine and Annabella Massey (Tower Poetry 2009 Summer School participant) reviews The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits by Emma O'Donoghue. October 2011 12 out of 48 poets in 'The Salt Book of Younger Poets' (to be published on 15 October at £10.99) are previous prizewinners or summer school participants at Tower Poetry - congratulations to August 2011 The details of the Iris 2011 annual under 18s poetry competition poems (30 lines max), inspired by the story of Jason and the Argonauts, are available here. Deadline for entries is 12 December 2011. The judges are Ruth Padel, Professor Edith Hall, and Henry Stead from Classics Confidential. June 2011 The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2011 for 11-17 Year olds is open. April 2011 Torchlight, Peter McDonald's latest collection of poetry, has just been published by Carcanet and reviewed in The Guardian. March 2011 IdeasTap and the Royal Shakespeare Company have launched a brand new poetry opportunity for emerging writers. February 2011 The Woodstock Bookshop and Tower Poetry are hosting an evening with David Morley and Peter McDonald on Thursday 7 April 2011 at 7pm. Click here for more information. November 2010 The 2011 Christopher Tower Poetry competition was launched on 1 November - this year's theme is 'Simplicity' and the judges are David Morley, Frances Leviston and Peter McDonald. The closing date for entries is 11 March 2011. There is a change of date and venue for the prizegiving from that advertised. The new prizegiving time and date will be from 6-8pm Monday 9 May 2011 at the House of Commons. July 2010 The Woodstock Bookshop and Tower Poetry are hosting an evening with Jo Shapcott and Daljit Nagra on Wednesday 25 August. Click here for more information. Congratulations to Jo Shapcott who is shortlisted for the 19th Forward Prize for Poetry with her collection Of Mutability. The winner will be announced on 6 October.
May 2010 The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2010 for 11-17 Year olds is openThe judges for this year's competition are Jane Draycott and Luke Kennard. The closing date for entries is 31 July 2010 – for more information please click here. March 2010 Congratulations to all who worked on a poem on the theme of 'Promises' and entered the Tenth Christopher Tower Poetry Prize. The winners are Emily Harrison (Cirencester College, Gloucestershire) who won the £3000 first prize with her poem Love Has No Larynx; second (£1000) prize went to Katie Woods (John Taylor High School, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire) with Selkie and the third prizewinner (£500) is Megan Owens (Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge, Suffolk) with Jane Loudon. February 2010 The closing date for entries to the 2010 Tower Poetry Competition has now passed - thank you to all who have entered poems this year. The judges will be meeting to select the winners, who will be informed by mid March and invited to the presentation on Wednesday 24 March (when details of the winners will be announced on the website too). September 2009 Entries open for Christopher Tower Poetry Prize 2010 The Christopher Tower Poetry Competition, the UK’s most valuable prize for young poets, is once again open for entries, and this year students between 16-18 years of age are challenged to write a poem... June 2009 Applications for the Tower Poetry Summer School 2009 are now closed The successful 2009 Summer School's applicants are being asked to confirm that they can join the group - we had lots of applicants but sadly are limited to only 14 places. Click here to view an archived list of Tower Poetry News and Events |
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.
Publications
Poems from the 7th Tower Poetry Summer School 2010
Edited by Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott
The Twelve contains 56 poems from the 12 young poets who attended the Summer School.