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).
Tower Poetry,
Christ Church,
Oxford, OX1 1DP
Tel: 01865 286591
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Entries open for Christopher Tower Poetry Prize 2010The 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 on the theme of ‘Promises’. Winning poem to be set to musicVillanelle by Sophie Stephenson-Wright, one of the runners-up in the Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes 2009, is to be set to music by Jonathan Pitkin for its first performance at the presentation of the 2010 Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes on 24 March 2010 in Oxford during The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival. Seasick Blue : Poems from Tower Poetry 2008 now availableSeasick Blue, a new collection of forty-two poems written during the annual Tower Poetry Summer School in August 2008, is now available to order.More information |  Order form (140kb) | Order from Amazon
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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.