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.
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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| Tower Poets - Five years of Tower Poetry |
Tower Poets - Five years of Tower PoetryEdited by Peter McDonald
Price: £5.00
With the publication of 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. New talent is always surprising rather than familiar. All the poets here are different - different from one another, and different from the usual pattern of "promise" in the world of contemporary British poetry. The Tower Poets in this exciting and distinctive collection are:
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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.