Poetry Matters
Poetry
This is an occasional series featuring the work of established or emerging poets. Sometimes the section will showcase work which has not yet been published in the UK, and sometimes the featured poet will turn a critical eye on their own work, and reveal the ways in which the chosen poems began, were shaped and then revised.
August 2007
Two poems by Robert Saxton
July 2007
This month's featured poet is Simon Pomery
March 2007
Two emerging voices in the poetry world, Anna Woodford and Miriam Gamble.
February 2007
December 2006
Meirion Jordan, 'Search Engine'
October 2006
Featured Poets Anna Lewis and Ben Wilkinson
August 2006
This month's featured poet is Sarah Cuddon
February 2006
January 2006
Selected poems from Amulet: Poems from the Tower Summer School 2005
November 2005
This month's featured poet is Andrew Webb
July 2005
This month's featured poet is Melanie Challenger
March 2005
The poems this month are all taken from Tower Poetry's first collection, Tower Poets, which will be launched at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on 12 April. Details of how to order the book
- Leaving by Anna Lewis
- Otter Ferry by Frances Leviston
- The Observer's Book of Birds by Tim Smith-Laing
January 2005
This month's featured post is Maureen Almond.
December 2004
This month's featured post is Alan Gillis.
November 2004
This month's featured post is Carol Bugan.
September 2004
This month's featured poet is Polly Clark.
August 2004
Stephen Burt, who teaches at Macalester College in Minnesota.
July 2004
Jon Stallworthy, who is Senior
Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University, and who was
one of the judges in this year's
Christopher Tower poetry competition.
