Contents

June 2008

• Jane Holland reviews The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
• Ben Wilkinson reviews Flood by Paul Abbott

May 2008

• Reviews
  • Michael Hofmann’s Selected Poems reviewed by Simon Pomery
  • John Kinsella’s Shades of the Sublime and Beautiful reviewed by Nicholas Pierpan
  • For All We Know by Ciaran Carson, reviewed by Anna Lewis
• News
  • Applications Open for The Tower Poetry Summer School 2008

January 2008

• Reviews
  • C.E.J. Simons reviews Sophie Hannah’s Pessimism for Beginners
  • Jane Griffiths reviews Public Dream by Frances Leviston
  • Ben Wilkinson reviews Tilt by Jean Sprackland
  • Sarah Bennett reviews The Fifty Minute Mermaid by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Muldoon
• News
  • Jean Sprackland wins Costa Book Award

November 2007

• Reviews
  • Peter McDonald reviews Hawks and Doves by Alan Gillis
  • Alan Gillis reviews On Purpose by Nick Laird
  • Matthew Sperling reviews Common Prayer by Fiona Sampson
• News
  • Shortlist for the annual T.S. Eliot Prize

September 2007

• Reviews
  • AB Jackson reviews A Treatise of Civil Power by Geoffrey Hill
  • C.E.J. Simons reviews The Drowned Book by Sean O’Brien
  • April Warman reviews Demolition by Neil Rollinson
  • John Redmond reviews Local Honey by Robert Saxton
• News
  • Sean O'Brien wins 2007 Forward Prize

August 2007

• Reviews
  • Fran Brearton reviews The Pomegranates of Kandahar by Sarah Maguire
  • 'Dark Wings': Alison Brackenbury reviews Birds with a Broken Wing by Adam Thorpe and Black Moon by Matthew Sweeney
• Poetry
  • Robert Saxton
• News
  • Forward Prize Shortlists Announced

June 2007

• Reviews
  • Lesley Bankes-Hughes reviews The Hat by Carol Ann Duffy
  • David Wheatley reviews The Best Man That Ever Was by Annie Freud
• Poetry
  • Simon Pomery
• News
  • 2007 Cardiff International Poetry Competition
  • Michael Rosen appointed as new Children's Laureate
  • Centre for Literacy in Primary Education prize for children's poetry
  • Photos from W H Auden Day School, 29 June 2007

April 2007

• Reviews
  • Fiona Sampson reviews The Estate by Sasha Dugdale
  • Mishtooni Bose reviews The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig
  • Carrie Etter reviews Lorraine Mariner’s Bye for Now

March 2007

• Reviews
  • April Warman reviews Gift Songs by John Burnside
  • Alison Brackenbury reviews Look We Have Coming to Dover by Daljit Nagra
  • Ups and Downs: Tim Kendall reviews Mocker by David Wheatley
• Poetry
  • Miriam Gamble
  • Anna Woodford
• News
  • W H Auden Day School
  • Award Winners Announced

February 2007

• Reviews
  • Jane Holland reviews The Poem and the Journey by Ruth Padel
  • Patrick Macfarlane reviews Misappropriations by Jasmine Donahaye
• Poetry
  • 'Lines for W H Auden'
• News
  • In celebration of W.H.Auden
  • W H Auden Day School - 23rd June 2007
  • Oxford Literary Festival 2007

January 2007

• Reviews
  • Stephen Burt reviews Averno by Louise Glück
  • Fran Brearton reviews Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon
  • April Warman reviews Little Gods by Jacob Polley
• Poetry
  • Meirion Jordan 'Search Engine'
• News
  • T S Eliot Prize, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and Costa Awards Winners Announced

December 2006

• Reviews
  • John Redmond reviews Essays on Departure by Marilyn Hacker
  • Fiona Sampson reviews The Deleted World, Tomas Tranströmer, versions by Robin Robertson and An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets, edited by Valentina Polukhina and Daniel Weissbort
• News
  • Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Awards) Shortlist

November 2006

• Reviews
  • Robert Herbert reviews Trouble Came to the Turnip by Caroline Bird
  • Jane Griffiths reviews Spirit Brides by Togara Muzanenhamo
  • Matthew Sperling reviews Cracks in the Universe by Charles Tomlinson
• News
  • The shortlist for the £10,000 T S Eliot Prize
  • T S Eliot Prize Shadowing Scheme
  • Jerwood First Collection Prize
  • Arvon International Poetry Competition

October 2006

• Reviews
  • Fiona Sampson reviews The Biplane Houses by Les Murray
  • April Warman reviews The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea by Mark Haddon
• Poetry
  • Anna Lewis
  • Ben Wilkinson
• News
  • 2006 Ruth Lilley Poetry Fellowships and New Writing Ventures Awards

 

September 2006

• Review
  • Jeremy Noel-Tod reviews Tramp in Flames by Paul Farley
  • Peter McDonald reviews Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid by Simon Armitage

August 2006

• News & Events
  • Shortlist for the New Writing Ventures Awards 2006 announced
• Poetry
  • Sarah Cuddon

July 2006

• News & Events
  • Shortlists for the 2006 Forward poetry prizes announced
• Reviews
  • Alison Brackenbury reviews Juniper Street by Vona Groarke
  • Gillian Clarke reviews Slower by Andrew McNeillie

June 2006

• News & Events
  • Recent Award Winners and the The T.S. Eliot Prize 2006
  • Poetry Review - new from Tower Poetry
• Reviews
  • Fiona Sampson reviews The Harper by Peter Redgrove

May 2006

• News & Events
  • Poetry Review - new from Tower Poetry
  • Former US poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Stanley Kunitz has died
• Reviews
  • John Redmond reviews James Fenton’s  Selected Poems
  • Carrie Etter reviews The Book of Blood by Vicki Feaver

April 2006

• News & Events
  • 2006 Queen's Medal for Poetry
  • Tower Poetry at the Oxford Literary Festival, March 2006
• Reviews
  • Stephen Burt reviews District and Circle by Seamus Heaney

March 2006

• Reviews
  • Jeremy Noel-Tod reviews Swithering by Robin Robertson
  • April Warman reviews Without Title by Geoffrey Hill

February 2006

• Poetry
  • Tristia by Paul Batchelor

January 2006

• News & Events
  • Whitbread Poetry Award
  • Carol Ann Duffy wins T S Eliot Prize
• Reviews
  • Behind the Linen Room: Fiona Sampson reviews New Collected Poems by Eavan Boland
• Poetry
  • Amulet: Poems from the Tower Summer School 2005

December 2005

• News & Events
  • Bridport Poetry Competition Winners
• Reviews
  • Frances Leviston reviews: Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
  • Olivia Cole reviews Skirrid Hill by Owen Sheers
  • Matthew Sperling reviews The Anti-Basilisk by Christopher Middleton
• Poetry
  • Amulet: Poems from the Tower Summer School 2005

November 2005

• News & Events
  • Shortlist for the T S Eliot Award 2005 announced...
• Reviews
  • Stephen Burt reviews Stolen Love Behaviour by John Stammers
  • Carrie Etter reviews Marabou by Jane Yeh
  • Kissing and Telling: April Warman reviews Selected Poems by Sharon Olds
• Poetry
  • Andrew Webb

October 2005

• News & Events
  • The Forward Prize winners announced
• Reviews
  • Paul Batchelor reviews Collected Poems by Ted Hughes

September 2005

• News & Events
  • Nick Laird longlisted for Guardian First Book Award
• Reviews
  • Jane Draycott reviews How to Write a Poem by John Redmond
  • Mishtooni Bose reviews Intimates by Helen Farish
  • Jane Yeh reviews Selected Poems by Robert Crawford

August 2005

• News & Events
  • Colette Bryce has just been named as the next North East Literary Fellow
• Reviews
  • Alison Brackenbury reviews Scattering Eva, by James Sheard

July 2005

• News & Events
  • Forward Prize Shortlist
• Reviews
  • Polly Clark reviews The State of the Prisons by Sinead Morrissey
  • Peter McDonald reviews Harbour Lights by Derek Mahon
  • John Lyon reviews We Were Pedestrians by Gerard Woodward
• Poetry
  • Last Rites by Melanie Challenger

June 2005

• News & Events
• Reviews
  • Fiona Sampson reviews Collected Poems 1978-2003 by U.A. Fanthorpe
  • John Redmond reviews Woods etc. by Alice Oswald
  • Matthew Sperling reviews three new collections from Stride

May 2005

• News & Events
  • Gwyneth Lewis to be inaugurated as the first national poet of Wales
  • The New Writing Partnership launches national prizes for new writers
• Reviews
  • Frances Leviston reviews: Ginnel by Lucy Newlyn
  • Alan Gillis reviews: Mandelson! Mandelson! A Memoir by David Herd

April 2005

• News & Events
  • Poet, playwright and novelist Julia Darling has died
  • Alan Gillis has won The Rupert and Eithne Strong First Book Award
• Reviews
  • Olivia Cole reviews A Shorter Life by Alan Jenkins

March 2005

• News & Events
  • Tower Poetry will be holding a reading at the Oxford Literary Festival
• Reviews
  • Matthew Sperling reviews: School of the Arts by Mark Doty
• Poetry
  • Leaving by Anna Lewis
  • Otter Ferry by Frances Leviston
  • The Observer's Book of Birds by Tim Smith-Laing

February 2005

• Reviews
  • John Redmond reviews: To a Fault by Nick Laird
  • Fiona Sampson reviews: Strange Land by Tim Kendall
  • Matthew Sperling reviews: The Good Neighbour by John Burnside

January 2005

• News & Events
• Poetry
  • Maureen Almond

December 2004

• Reviews
  • Fiona Sampson reviews: The Road to Inver by Tom Paulin
• Poetry
  • Alan Gillis

November 2004

• News & Events
• Reviews
  • Polly Clark reviews: New Selected Poems 1984-2004 by Carol Ann Duffy
  • Matthew Sperling reviews: Ghosts by John Fuller
  • Tim Kendall reviews: The Canals of Mars by Patrick McGuinness
• Poetry
  • Carol Bugan

September 2004

• Poetry
  • Polly Clark

August 2004

• News & Events
• Poetry
  • Stephen Burt

July 2004

• News & Events
• Poetry
  • Jon Stallworthy