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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Publications
Promises: The Christopher Tower Poetry Prize Winners 2010 (Digital Edition)

The winning poems from the 2010 Christopher Tower Poetry Prize brought together in this exclusive digital-only edition.

pdficon_small Click here to download a special digital edition of 'Promises', containing all the winning poems. (1.64mb)

 
A Tower Miscellany

A Tower Miscellany brings together new poems by a number of poets who have been associated with Tower Poetry over the past decade. The book also includes prose pieces which give some idea of Tower Poetry's activities in that time. The book is not a comprehensive report on Tower's activities over the first ten years of its existence; rather, it's a snapshot of how Tower Poetry looks in 2010, which foregrounds new creative material from poets with whom we are proud to have been associated.

 
Seasick Blue: Poems from Tower Poetry 2008

Seasick Blue is a new collection of twenty-nine poems written during the annual Tower Poetry Summer School in August 2008. Previous winners of the Christopher Tower poetry competitions between 2006 and 2008, as well as other young writers, worked with Jane Draycott and Frances Leviston to produce poems with a remarkable range of voice and fluency. The collection was published on 26 August 2009 and is available now to order.

 
Doubt: The Christopher Tower Poetry Prize Winners 2009 (Digital Edition)

The winning poems from the 2009 Christopher Tower Poetry Prize brought together in this exclusive digital-only edition. 

pdficon_small Click here to download a special digital edition of 'Doubt', containing all the winning poems. (1.7mb)

 
Tower Poetry Review
TPR is a downloadable newsletter with a compact format and features a selection of the reviews and poetry taken from Poetry Matters, as well as information about forthcoming events around the country, useful weblinks, new publications, and a few other interesting items along the way.
 
Jitterwhirring: Poems from Tower Poetry 2007

Previous winners of the Christopher Tower poetry competitions in 2006 and 2007, as well as other young writers, worked with Fiona Sampson and John Redmond during the course of the annual Tower Poetry Summer School held in August 2007 to produce forty-two poems. These show a remarkable range of voice and fluency. The fifty-two page booklet was published on 27 August 2008, and copies are now available to order.

 
Change: The Christopher Tower Poetry Prize Winners 2008 (Digital Edition)

The winning poems from the 2008 Christopher Tower Poetry Prize are brought together in this exclusive digital-only edition.

pdficon_small Click here to download a special digital edition of 'Change', containing all the winning poems. (2.6mb)

 
Search Engine: Poems from Tower Poetry 2006
In this new pamphlet from Tower Poetry, the featured young writers take a strong and confident approach to poetry, and their work demonstrates a wide range of imaginative, fresh, and sometimes startling approaches to the subject. The poems include the winning entries in the 2006 Christopher Tower poetry competition, as well as a selection of work written by students at the 2006 Tower Poetry summer school which was tutored by Jane Draycott and John Redmond.
 
Amulet: Poems from the Tower Poetry Summer School 2005

In the summer of 2005, Gillian Clarke and Polly Clark spent time at Christ Church, Oxford, with a group of young writers who were given the opportunity to write and talk about their poems in the context of workshops, tutorials, and more informal discussions.  The tutors talked about their own ways of approaching poetry, and were also joined in readings by poets Esther Morgan and Jamie McKendrick. Amulet is the result of this year’s stimulating and successful Tower Poetry Summer School.

 
Tower Poets - Five years of Tower Poetry

In this first collection, Tower Poetry presents the work of seven young writers of real promise and achievements. Some have been winners of the annual Christopher Tower poetry competitions; others have taken part in the Tower Poetry Summer School; still others have been participants in the regular Tower classes on writing poetry given in the University of Oxford.

 


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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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