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The 2011 Christopher Tower Poetry competition has now closed - thank you to all who've entered. We were delighted to find that 39% of the entries came from those at schools who had not entered previously. ...
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The 2011 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition prizegiving will now take place in the House of Commons, London on Monday 9 May 6-8pm.
Winners will be informed by Monday 11 April....
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The editors of a new magazine (first issue February 2011) b[liminal] are seeking contents for the poetry section.
If you're interested, please send your work ASAP to be considered. To get further information, or receive exclusive online content fro...
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Congratulations to Gillian Clarke
Gillian Clarke, co-judge of the 2005 Tower Poetry competition and co-tutor of the 2005 Summer School, has been awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2010. She will be presented with the Award later in 2011.
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On Sunday 23 January 2011, the eve of the judges’ decision, the T S Eliot Prize Readings will be staged at the Southbank’s Royal Festival Hall. All ten poets are invited to read from their shortlisted collections, making the Readings a unique op...
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The 11th Christopher Tower Poetry competition is now open - full details here.
The T S Eliot Prize Shadowing Scheme 2010A great way to introduce secondary school pupils to the best in contemporary poetry. The T S Eliot Prize Shadowing Scheme provides an ...
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The Italian Sub-Faculty of the University of Oxford announces the winners of the Giacomo da Lentini Prize 2010 for the best English translation of an Italian sonnet.First Prize: Julia Hartley (Christ Church) Second Prize : shared by Paul Howard (Balliol)&...
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2011 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition
The 11th competition will open on Monday 1 November when full details of the theme, closing date, judges and rules for entry will be on the website.
The 22nd Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs from 5-7 November 2010...
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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....
