Tower Poetry 2017

Annie Fan, second prize winner in the 2017 Tower Poetry competition, reads her poem Qianling Stele. 

Ella Standage, first prize winner in the 2017 Tower Poetry competition, reads her poem rosetta. 

A shortlisted entry for the 2009 University of Oxford Online Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Competition. 

The judges deliver their verdicts of the entries for the 2009 University of Oxford Online Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Competition. 

Some students and I walk through Hopkins' poem, celebrating its particular pleasures and insights, as well as talking in general about how easy it is to access the strange mysterious power of a poem. 

Pádraig reflects on the transformative force of poetry, and Krista joins with an invitation to pay tribute to the ongoing work of Poetry Unbound.Make a gift and learn more at onbeing.org/LoveUs. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about o ...  Show more