Oxford Poetry is a literary magazine

Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...

 based in Oxford

Oxford

The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

, England. It is currently edited by Hamid Khanbhai and Thomas A Richards.

Founded in 1910 by Basil Blackwell

Basil Blackwell

Sir Basil Blackwell was born Henry Blackwell in Oxford, England. He was the son of the founder of Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford, which went on to become the Blackwell's family publishing and bookshop empire, located on Broad Street in central Oxford...

, its editors have included Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages...

, Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel...

, Robert Graves

Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves 24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works...

, Vera Brittain

Vera Brittain

Vera Mary Brittain was a British writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.-Life:Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Brittain was the...

, Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis

Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism...

, Anthony Thwaite

Anthony Thwaite

Anthony Simon Thwaite, OBE, is an English poet and writer. He is married to the writer Ann Thwaite. He was awarded the OBE in 1992, for services to poetry. He was mainly brought up in Yorkshire and currently lives in Norfolk....

, John Fuller

John Fuller (poet)

John Fuller is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.Fuller was born in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford. He began teaching in 1962 at the State University of New...

 and Bernard O'Donoghue

Bernard O'Donoghue

Bernard O'Donoghue is a noted contemporary Irish poet and academic.Born in Cullen, County Cork, Ireland, he moved to Manchester, England when he was 16, where he attended St Bede's College. He has lived in Oxford, England since 1965...

.

Among the other authors to have appeared in Oxford Poetry are Fleur Adcock

Fleur Adcock

Kareen Fleur Adcock , CNZM, OBE is a poet and an editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England.-Life and career:...

, A. Alvarez, W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...

, Anne Carson

Anne Carson

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....

, Nevill Coghill

Nevill Coghill

Nevill Coghill was a British literary scholar, known especially for his modern English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.-Life:...

, David Constantine

David Constantine

David Constantine is a British poet and translator.Constantine is a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford University, and a graduate of Wadham College, Oxford. He is co-editor of the literary journal Modern Poetry in Translation...

, Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford (poet)

Robert Crawford was an Australian poet.Crawford was born in Doonside, New South Wales, the son of Robert Crawford senior, and was educated at The King's School, Parramatta, and the University of Sydney. Crawford settled on a farm as his forefathers had done, but not being successful, became a...

, Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009...

, Elaine Feinstein

Elaine Feinstein

Elaine Feinstein is a poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator.-Biography:...

, Graham Greene

Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world...

, Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...

, W.N. Herbert, Geoffrey Hill

Geoffrey Hill

Geoffrey Hill is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation...

, Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood

Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood was an English-American novelist.-Early life and work:Born at Wyberslegh Hall, High Lane, Cheshire in North West England, Isherwood spent his childhood in various towns where his father, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army, was stationed...

, Elizabeth Jennings

Elizabeth Jennings

Elizabeth Jennings was an English poet.-Life and career:Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire. When she was six, her family moved to Oxford, where she remained for the rest of her life. Couzyn, Jeni Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe, pp. 98-100. There she later attended St Anne's College...

, Jenny Joseph

Jenny Joseph

-Life and career:She was born in Birmingham, and with a scholarship, studied English literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford .Her poems were first published when she was at university in the early 1950s...

, Stephen Knight

Stephen Thomas Knight

Stephen Thomas Knight MA PhD . F.A.H.A., F.E.A. currently holds the position of Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University in the School of English, Communications and Philosophy. His areas of expertise include English literature, Medieval literature, Cultural studies, Crime fiction,...

, Ronald Knox

Ronald Knox

Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was an English priest, theologian and writer.-Life:Ronald Knox was born in Kibworth, Leicestershire, England into an Anglican family and was educated at Eton College, where he took the first scholarship in 1900 and Balliol College, Oxford, where again...

, Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL is widely regarded as one of the great English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century...

, C. Day Lewis, Michael Longley

Michael Longley

Michael Longley, CBE is a Northern Irish poet from Belfast.-Life and career:Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus...

, Louis MacNeice

Louis MacNeice

Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE was an Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis; nicknamed "MacSpaunday" as a group — a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco...

, Peter McDonald, Christopher Middleton

Christopher Middleton (poet)

Christopher Middleton is a British poet and translator, especially of German literature.-Life:He was born in Truro, Cornwall, in 1926. He studied at Merton College, Oxford. He then held academic positions at the University of Zürich and King's College London. He became Professor of Germanic...

, Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion

Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist and biographer, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.- Life and career :...

, Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...

, Tom Paulin

Tom Paulin

Thomas Neilson Paulin is a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he is the GM Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.- Life and work :...

, Mario Petrucci, Craig Raine

Craig Raine

Craig Raine is an English poet and critic born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England. Along with Christopher Reid, he is the best-known exponent of Martian poetry.-Life:...

, Jo Shapcott

Jo Shapcott

Jo Shapcott FRSL, is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award.-Career:...

, Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender

Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work...

, George Szirtes

George Szirtes

George Szirtes is a Hungarian-born British poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English. He has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life.-Life:...

, J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...

, Susan Wicks

Susan Wicks

Susan Wicks is a British poet, and novelist.She studied at the University of Hull, University of Sussex. She taught at University College, Dublin, University of Dijon, and the University of Kent....

 and Charles Wright

Charles Wright (poet)

Charles Wright is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award (19830 for...

. Traditionally it publishes winners of Oxford's Newdigate Prize

Newdigate prize

Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize is awarded to students of the University of Oxford for Best Composition in English verse by an undergraduate who has been admitted to Oxford within the previous four years. It was founded by Sir Roger Newdigate, Bt in the 18th century...

.

Until the Second World War

• 1910-13. Gerald H. Crow, Geoffery Dennis, Sherard Vines
  Sherard Vines
  Walter Sherard Vines was an English writer and academic who wrote poetry, novels, and criticism.He was born in Oxford and educated at Magdalen College School and New College, Oxford. He was published in Oxford Poetry, and took an academic position at Belfast University in 1914. He served in the...
  
  
• 1914. Gerald H. Crow, Sherard Vines
• 1915. Gerald H. Crow,T. W. Earp
• 1916. Wilfred Rowland Childe
  Wilfred Rowland Childe
  Wilfred Rowland Childe was a British poet and critic. He was educated at Harrow School and Magdalen College, Oxford. He edited Oxford Poetry in 1916 and 1917. He became a Roman Catholic convert in 1916. He is chiefly remembered for 'Dream English. A Fantastical Romance' which was and still is...
  
  , T. W. Earp, Aldous Huxley
  Aldous Huxley
  Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel...
  
  
• 1917. Wilfred Rowland Childe, T. W. Earp, Dorothy L. Sayers
  Dorothy L. Sayers
  Dorothy Leigh Sayers was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages...
  
  
• 1918. T. W. Earp, E. F. A. Geach, Dorothy L. Sayers
• 1919. T. W. Earp, Dorothy L. Sayers, Siegfried Sassoon
  Siegfried Sassoon
  Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC was an English poet, author and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's...
  
  
• 1920. Vera Brittain
  Vera Brittain
  Vera Mary Brittain was a British writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.-Life:Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Brittain was the...
  
  , C. H. B. Kitchin
  C. H. B. Kitchin
  Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin was a British novelist of the early twentieth century. He was best known for his mystery novels, notably Death of His Uncle and Death of My Aunt, but his other novels were also highly regarded, especially by other writers. His best known novels are The Auction Sale,...
  
  , Alan Porter
• 1921. Alan Porter, Richard Hughes
  Richard Hughes (writer)
  Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.He was born in Weybridge, Surrey. His father was a civil servant Arthur Hughes, and his mother Louisa Grace Warren who had been brought up in Jamaica...
  
  , Robert Graves
  Robert Graves
  Robert von Ranke Graves 24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works...
  
  
• 1922. No editors cited.
• 1923. David Cleghorn Thomson, F. W. Bateson
  F. W. Bateson
  Frederick Wilse Bateson was an English literary scholar and critic.Bateson was born in Cheshire, and educated at Charterhouse and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he took a BA in English , and then the B.Litt., which he completed in 1927...
  
  
• 1924. Harold Acton
  Harold Acton
  Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBE was a British writer, scholar and dilettante perhaps most famous for being wrongly believed to have inspired the character of "Anthony Blanche" in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited...
  
  , Peter Quennell
  Peter Quennell
  Sir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic....
  
  
• 1925. Patrick Monkhouse, Charles Plumb
• 1926. Charles Plumb, W. H. Auden
  W. H. Auden
  Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
  
  
• 1927. W. H. Auden, C. Day-Lewis
• 1928. Clere Parsons
  Clere Parsons
  Clere Parsons was an English poet, born in India.He was educated at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and edited the 1928 edition of Oxford Poetry.His only collection, Poems, was published after his death by Faber & Faber...
  
  , Basil Blackwell
  Basil Blackwell
  Sir Basil Blackwell was born Henry Blackwell in Oxford, England. He was the son of the founder of Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford, which went on to become the Blackwell's family publishing and bookshop empire, located on Broad Street in central Oxford...
  
  
• 1929. Louis MacNeice
  Louis MacNeice
  Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE was an Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis; nicknamed "MacSpaunday" as a group — a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco...
  
  , Stephen Spender
  Stephen Spender
  Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work...
  
  
• 1930. Stephen Spender, Bernard Spencer
  Bernard Spencer
  Charles Bernard Spencer was an English poet, translator, and editor.He was born in Madras, India and educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Marlborough he knew John Betjeman and Louis MacNeice; at Oxford Stephen Spender, and he also came across W. H. Auden. He...
  
  
• 1931. Bernard Spencer, Richard Goodman
• 1932. Richard Goodman
• 1933-5. No editions.
• 1936. A. W. Sandford, Alan Rook
  Alan Rook
  Alan Rook was a Cairo poet and edited the 1936 issue of New Oxford Poetry. After World War II he became a wine trader.-External links:*...
  
  
• 1937. Nevill Coghill
  Nevill Coghill
  Nevill Coghill was a British literary scholar, known especially for his modern English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.-Life:...
  
  , Alistair Sandford
• 1938-41. No editions.
• 1942-3. Ian Davie, John Heath-Stubbs
  John Heath-Stubbs
  John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE was an English poet and translator, known for his verse influenced by classical myths, and the long Arthurian poem Artorius .- Biography :...
  
  
• 1944-5. No editions.

Post-War

• 1946. Roy Macnab, Gordon Swaine
• 1947. Martin Starkie
  Martin Starkie
  Martin Starkie was an English actor, writer and director for theatre, radio and television. The Oxford University Poetry Society administers the annual Martin Starkie Prize in his honour.-Early life:...
  
  , Roy Macnab
• 1948. Arthur Boyars
  Arthur Boyars
  Arthur Boyars is a British poet and musicologist, who is also a translator and critic, literary editor and publisher.His Poems were published in 1944 by Fortune Press. He started the small magazine Mandrake in 1946 with John Wain while at Wadham College, Oxford, subtitled the 'An Oxford Review';...
  
  , Barry Harmer
• 1949. Kingsley Amis
  Kingsley Amis
  Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism...
  
  , James Michie
• 1950. J. B. Donne, Donald Watt
  Donald Watt
  Donald Watt may refer to:* Don Watt , Canadian award winning designer* Donald Watt , Australian all-round sportsman from Queensland* D. E. R...
  
  
• 1951. J. B. Donne
• 1952. Derwent May, James Price
• 1953. Donald Hall
  Donald Hall
  Donald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2006.-Personal life:...
  
  , Geoffrey Hill
  Geoffrey Hill
  Geoffrey Hill is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation...
  
  
• 1954. Jonathan Price, Anthony Thwaite
  Anthony Thwaite
  Anthony Simon Thwaite, OBE, is an English poet and writer. He is married to the writer Ann Thwaite. He was awarded the OBE in 1992, for services to poetry. He was mainly brought up in Yorkshire and currently lives in Norfolk....
  
  
• 1955. Adrian Mitchell
  Adrian Mitchell
  Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement...
  
  , Richard Selig
• 1956. Bernard Donoughue, Gabriel Pearson
• 1957. Peter Ferguson, Dennis Keene
• 1958. No edition.
• 1959. Roger Lonsdale
  Roger Lonsdale
  Roger Lonsdale is a British Author, and has been a Fellow and Tutor at Balliol College Oxford.-Bibliography:* Dr Charles Burney: A literary Biography * The Poems of Gray, Collins and Goldsmith *William Beckford's Vathek...
  
  , Judy Spink
• 1960. John Fuller
  John Fuller (poet)
  John Fuller is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.Fuller was born in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford. He began teaching in 1962 at the State University of New...
  
  , Francis Hope
• 1961-9. No editions.
• 1970. Mark Wormald, Robin Leanse

Oxford Poetry Re-Launched

• June 1983. Mick Imlah, Nicholas Jenkins, Elise Paschen
  Elise Paschen
  Elise Paschen, a poet of Osage descent, is the co-founder and co-editor of Poetry in Motion, a program which places poetry posters in subways and buses across the country. The daughter of renowned prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief, and Chicago builder Henry D. Paschen, she was born and raised in...
  
  , Nicola Richards
• Autumn 1983. Nicholas Jenkins, Elise Paschen, Nicola Richards
• 1984-5. Nicholas Jenkins, Bernard O'Donoghue
  Bernard O'Donoghue
  Bernard O'Donoghue is a noted contemporary Irish poet and academic.Born in Cullen, County Cork, Ireland, he moved to Manchester, England when he was 16, where he attended St Bede's College. He has lived in Oxford, England since 1965...
  
  , Peter McDonald, Elise Paschen
• Winter 1986. Mark Ford, Nicholas Jenkins, John Lanchester
  John Lanchester
  John Henry Lanchester is a British journalist and novelist. He was born in Hamburg, brought up in Hong Kong and educated in England, at Gresham's School, Holt between 1972 and 1980 and St John's College, Oxford.-Works:...
  
  , Elise Paschen
• Summer 1987. Mark Ford, Elise Paschen, Mark Wormald
• Winter 1987. Elise Paschen, Mark Wormald
• 1988. Mark Wormald, Sarah Dence, Bernard O'Donoghue, Janice Whitten
• 1989-91. Mark Wormald
• Summer 1992. Sinéad Garrigan, Kate Reeves, Mark Wormald
• Winter 1992. Sinéad Garrigan, Kate Reeves
• Summer 1993. Sinéad Garrigan, Kate Reeves, Ian Samson
• Winter 1993. Sinéad Garrigan, Ian Samson
• Summer 1994. Sinéad Garrigan, Ian Samson
• Winter 1994. Sinéad Garrigan, Sam Leith
• 1995. Sinéad Garrigan, Sam Leith
• 1996-7. No editions.
• Easter 1998. Graham Nelson
  Graham Nelson
  Graham A. Nelson is a British mathematician and poet and the creator of the Inform design system for creating interactive fiction games. He has also authored several IF games, including the acclaimed Curses and Jigsaw , using the experience of writing Curses in particular to expand the range of...
  
  , Gillian Pachter, Robert Macfarlane
  Robert Macfarlane
  Robert Macfarlane, , is a British travel writer and literary critic. Educated at Nottingham High School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is currently a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of English at Cambridge.-Books:Macfarlane's first...
  
  
• Winter 1998. Graham Nelson, Robert Macfarlane
• 1999. Graham Nelson, Jane Griffiths
• 2000. Graham Nelson, Jane Griffiths, Jenni Nuttall

21st Century

• 2003. Carmen Bugan, Kelly Grovier
  Kelly Grovier
  Kelly Grovier is an American poet.Grovier was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar...
  
  , Sarah Hesketh
• 2004. Carmen Bugan, Kelly Grovier, Sinéad Sturgeon
• 2006. Carmen Bugan, Kelly Grovier, Richard Rowley, Sinéad Sturgeon
• 2007. Paul Thomas Abbott
• 2008. Benjamin Mullen, JCH Potts
• 2009. Hamid Khanbhai, Thomas A Richards
• 2010. Hamid Khanbhai, Thomas A Richards

External links

• Oxford Poetry homepage — including online texts