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Jo Shapcott and Daljit Nagra in Woodstock, Oxfordshire
The Woodstock Bookshop and Tower Poetry are presenting an evening of poetry at The Woodstock Arms, 8 Market Street, Woodstock on Wednesday 25 August at 8pm.
Entry is £4 (students free) but all ti...
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The Ledbury Poetry Festival 2-11 July 2010
Don Paterson, Meirion Jordan, Gillian Clarke, Francine Stock - who have all been connected recently with Tower Poetry - are appearing at the Festival. Click here for more details.
The Foyle Young Poets of...
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Applications Open for The Tower Poetry Summer School 2010
Tower Poetry is offering young poets between the ages of 18-23 the chance to attend the annual Tower Poetry Summer School to be held at Christ Church, Oxford, between 24-27 August, 2010. The resi...
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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 La...
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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 W...
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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 po...
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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. We're sorry t...
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Tower Poetry are organising a Teachers' Workshop in association with The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on Thursday 2 April.
Gillian Clarke with Peter Buckroyd, previously Chief Examiner, AQA GCSE English, introduced by Peter McDonald
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Winners of The Christopher Tower Poetry Prize 2009 Announced
Congratulations to the seven winners and runners-up of the 2009 Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes competition. We had a record number of entries inspired by this year's subject 'Doubt'. Commiser...
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Foyle Young Poets of the Year 2009 Open for Entries
The Foyle Young Poets of the Year competition 2009 is open for entries. The competition, run by The Poetry Society, is open to all young writers aged 11-17. Poems can be on any theme, and of any length,...
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The Oxford Online Debate: 'Poetry is beautiful, but science is what matters'
Oxford Online Debates continue this term with the proposition that 'Poetry is beautiful, but science is what matters'.
Professor Peter Atkins (Lincoln and Department of Ch...
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Mick Imlah (1956-2009)
A tribute to the author of Birthmarks and The Lost Leader by Peter McDonald....
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The judges and theme for the 2009 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition will be announced on Tuesday 4 November. Full details and entry forms will be available here.
The winner of the Forward Prize was announced on 7 October - Mick Imlah w...
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Jitterwhirring: Poems from Tower Poetry 2008 now available
Jitterwhirring, a new collection of forty-two poems written during the annual Tower Poetry Summer School in August 2007, is now available to order. More information | Order form (139kb)...
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Tower Poetry Review : July 2008
The latest edition of Tower Poetry Review is available to download, showcasing new poetry from some of the rising young stars in British poetry, as well as the usual stimulating mix of reviews, news and events, and weblin...
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New Tower Poetry Facebook Group
Tower Poetry has started a Facebook Group to keep you up-to-date with what we're doing. You can comment on our latest reviews, start your own discussion topic, or just leave a message on our Wall.
Applications for the Tow...
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Applications Open for The Tower Poetry Summer School 2008
Tower Poetry is offering young poets between the ages of 18-23 the chance to attend The annual Tower Poetry Summer School to be held at Christ Church, Oxford, between 26-29 August, 2008. Th...
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Christopher Tower Poetry Prize Winners 2008
Updated 30 April: Listen to the prize winners read their poems (MP3 download)
Updated 21 April: photographs from the prize ceremony at Christ Church College are now available, along with an exclusive digital-...
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Jean Sprackland has won the poetry category of the 2007 Costa Book awards with Tilt [review]. The other three books on the shortlist were The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig [review], The Space of Joy by John Fuller, and Look We Have Coming to Dover...
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The shortlist for the annual T.S. Eliot Prize has been announced. This year, the favoured poets are:
Ian Duhig for The Speed of Dark (Picador) [review] Alan Gillis for Hawks and Doves (Gallery) [review] Sophie Hannah for Pessimism...
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