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Tower Poetry

Tower Poetry 2017: rosetta

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

Tower Poetry 2017: I am a river

Freya Gray Stone, commended prize winner in the 2017 Tower Poetry competition, reads her poem I am a river.
Tower Poetry

Tower Poetry 2017: Snowdrops

Flora Barber, commended prize winner in the 2017 Tower Poetry competition, reads her poem Snowdrops.
Tower Poetry

Tower 2017: If I Gave You a Stone

Rachel Oyawale, third prize winner in the 2017 Tower Poetry competition, reads her poem If I Gave You a Stone.
Tower Poetry

Tower Poetry 2017: The Millstone

Sofia Al-Hussaini, commended prize winner in the 2017 Tower Poetry competition, reads her poem The Millstone.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry

Book at Lunchtime event.
Poetry with Simon Armitage

We Need To Talk About Robert: Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature'

Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage gives a lecture about literature, poetry and Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Held on 8th March 2017.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Translation as Afterlife

In this seminar, Marcela Sulak (Bar Ilan University) and Adriana X. Jacobs (Oriental Studies) will explore the possibility of translation as “afterlife” through a discussion of the Hebrew poets Orit Gidali and Hezy Leskly.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Rumi: his life, work, and poetry

Dr Zahra Taheri, Bahari Visiting Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book, speaks about Rumi's life, mystical teaching, doctrine, and poetry. With Music by Dr Peyman Heydarian.
Oxford Writers' House Talks

Words for Winter: Tales of Home

The event showcases the best of Oxford’s writing. Gathering together tales from all over the globe, of tradition, family, darkness, light and celebration.
Changing Character of War
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Militant Jihadi Culture: Poetry as a Weapon

The power of poetry to move Arab listeners and readers emotionally, to infiltrate the psyche and to create an aura of authenticity around the ideologies it enshrines, make it a perfect weapon for militant jihadist causes.
Oxford Writers' House Talks

Critical Writing

Dr Eleni Philippou, Leah Broad, Theophilus Kwek and James Watt in conversation.
Exploring Humanities - The Ertegun Scholarship Programme

Conversation with Wole Soyinka

A wide-ranging conversation between Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and members of the Ertegun House community. Topics include the status of African literature, the relationship between creativity and ideology, Brexit, and Bob Dylan.
Oxford Writers' House Talks

Mark Haddon, Daisy Johnson, and KJ Orr in Conversation

Award-winning author Mark Haddon discusses his writing process and interests with local poet and writer Daisy Johnson. The conversation is moderated by KJ Orr.
Oxford Writers' House Talks

How And Why I Write: Philip Pullman, Mary Loudon, Jane Griffiths, and Fintan Calpin in conversation

Oxford authors and academics discuss their writing process.
Faculty of Classics

Alumni Day 2015 - Microscopic and Macroscopic. Rhythmic prose and historical themes in Plutarch's 'Lives' and Appian's 'Civil Wars'

Gregory Hutchinson on rhythmic prose and historical themes in Plutarch's 'Lives' and Appian's 'Civil Wars'
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

TORCH Gender and Authority Research Network, Seminar 1, University of Oxford, 2 March 2016

TORCH Gender and Authority Research Network, Seminar 1 featuring Mary Harrod and Susan Garrard.
Unconscious Memory
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And all this time it dwells behind the door

Annie Freud, the award-winning poet and artist, will talk about where her poems come from, her development as an artist and writer, and the relationship between her poems and paintings.
Tower Poetry

About the Tower Poetry Summer School

Find out more about the Tower Poetry Summer School - 2012 tutor, Alan Gillis, talks to participant, Camille Ralphs about the value of the summer school and how approachable it is.
Tower Poetry

So, how does it feel to win?

Ashani Lewis (winner of the 2016 Christopher Tower Poetry competition) talks to one of the judges, Katherine Rundell, about how it feels to have won first prize.

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