The time has come for the third clue! In four weeks the Tower Poetry Competition 2018 will open, and we will reveal this year’s theme. The four ‘clues’… read more →

    We are two weeks closer to the launch of this year’s Christopher Tower Poetry Competition! The second clue to the theme is:   ‘Pocket Litter’      … read more →

    Two months from today the Tower Poetry Competition 2018 will open!   This year, leading up to the launch, we will publish a series of clues to the… read more →

WINNING POEMS 2001 – 2017 106 poems from each year’s winning entries – now available here. The themes range from: Blue – Floods – Passport – Early Morning – Gravity… read more →

The winners of the 2017 competition were announced on 19 April 2017. All the winning poems and the names and schools of those longlisted can be found on this website.… read more →

A. E. Stallings Pieter van Laer Limited editions of newly-commissioned poems, each in response to a painting from the Picture Gallery of Christ Church, Oxford. Five Royal 8vo pamphlets with… read more →

Andrew Wynn Owen Viviano Codazzi Limited editions of newly-commissioned poems, each in response to a painting from the Picture Gallery of Christ Church, Oxford. Five Royal 8vo pamphlets with colour… read more →

Camille Ralphs Neapolitan School Limited editions of newly-commissioned poems, each in response to a painting from the Picture Gallery of Christ Church, Oxford. Five Royal 8vo pamphlets with colour reproductions,… read more →

Stephen Romer and Peter McDonald Filippino Lippi Limited editions of newly-commissioned poems, each in response to a painting from the Picture Gallery of Christ Church, Oxford. Five Royal 8vo pamphlets… read more →

Justin Quinn Russian (Palekh) School Limited editions of newly-commissioned poems, each in response to a painting from the Picture Gallery of Christ Church, Oxford. Five Royal 8vo pamphlets with colour… read more →