Summer School 2010

The 7th Tower Poetry Summer School (24-27 August) for young poets aged 18-23 will be held in Christ Church Oxford.

 

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Competition 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 poem on the theme of 'Promises'

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Poetry Matters

Poetry Matters is an exciting on-line poetry magazine which provides a fresh, dynamic perspective on poetry issues through a mix of news, reviews and comment.

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Tower Poetry Review : Back Issues

July 2008: Issue 5

Report from the Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes 2008

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June 2007: Issue 4

  • Report from the Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes 2007
  • New poems
  • Alison Brackenbury reviews Look We Have Coming to Dover by Daljit Nagra
  • April Warman reviews Gift Songs by John Burnside
  • Mishtooni Bose reviews The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig
  • Tim Kendall reviews Mocker by David Wheatley

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March 2007: Issue 3

Highlights from this edition include:

  • In celebration of W H Auden
  • Search Engine - poems from Tower Poetry 2006

Plus the work of some exciting young poets and our usual selection
of recent reviews from Poetry Matters including:

  • April Warman reviews Little Gods by Jacob Polley
  • 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
  • Fran Brearton reviews Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon

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October 2006: Issue 2

  • The 2007 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition
  • Poetry by Anna Lewis, Olivia Cole, Vidyan Ravinthiran, and Ben Wilkinson
  • Fiona Sampson reviews The Biplane Houses by Les Murray
  • Peter McDonald reviews Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid by Simon Armitage
  • Jeremy Noel-Tod reviews Tramp in Flames by Paul Farley
  • John Redmond reviews James Fenton's Selected Poems
  • Alison Brackenbury reviews Juniper Street by Vona Groarke

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May 2006: Issue 1

  • 2006 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition winners and poems
  • Stephen Burt reviews District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
  • April Warman reviews Without Title by Geoffrey Hill
  • Frances Leviston reviews Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
  • Jeremy Noel-Todd reviews Swithering by Robin Robertson
  • Plus poetry links, news and events

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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.

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