''Oxford Poetry'' is a

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 lett ...

based in

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

, England. It is currently edited by Luke Allan. The magazine is published by Partus Press. Founded in 1910 by Basil Blackwell, its editors have included Dorothy L. Sayers,

Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxle ...

Robert Graves Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was a British poet, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celt ...

Vera Brittain Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir '' Testament of Youth'' recounted her experiences during the Fir ...

Kingsley Amis Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social ...

Anthony Thwaite Anthony Simon Thwaite (23 June 1930 – 22 April 2021) was an English poet and critic, widely known as the editor of his friend Philip Larkin's collected poems and letters. Early years and education Born in Chester, England, to Yorkshire par ...

, John Fuller and

Bernard O'Donoghue Bernard O'Donoghue FRSL (born 1945) is a contemporary Irish poet and academic. Early life and education Bernard O'Donoghue was born on 14 December 1945 in Cullen, County Cork, Ireland, where he lived on a farm. “My father was a terrible and r ...

. Among the other authors to have appeared in ''Oxford Poetry'' are

Fleur Adcock Fleur Adcock (born 10 February 1934) is a New Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England. She is well-represented in New Zealand poetry anthologies, was awarded an honorary doct ...

, A. Alvarez, W. H. Auden,

Anne Carson Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the Unit ...

, Nevill Coghill, David Constantine, Robert Crawford,

Carol Ann Duffy Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, resigning in 2019. She was the first ...

Elaine Feinstein Elaine Feinstein FRSL (born Elaine Cooklin; 24 October 1930 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator. She joined the Council of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007. Earl ...

Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquir ...

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

W. N. Herbert W. N. Herbert , also known as Bill Herbert (born 1961) is a poet from Dundee, Scotland. He writes in both English and Scots. He and Richard Price founded the poetry magazine '' Gairfish''. He currently teaches at Newcastle University. Earl ...

, Geoffrey Hill,

Christopher Isherwood Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include ''Goodbye to Berlin'' (1939), a semi-autobiographical ...

, Elizabeth Jennings,

Jenny Joseph Jenny Joseph (7 May 1932 – 15 April 2018) was an English poet, best known for the poem "Warning". Early life and education Jennifer Ruth Joseph was born on 7 May 1932 in South Hill, Carpenter Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham to Florence (née ...

, Stephen Knight,

Ronald Knox Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (17 February 1888 – 24 August 1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, author, and radio broadcaster. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he earned a high reputation as a classicist, Knox wa ...

Philip Larkin Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, ''The North Ship'', was published in 1945, followed by two novels, ''Jill'' (1946) and ''A Girl in Winter'' (1947 ...

, C. Day-Lewis,

Michael Longley Michael Longley, (born 27 July 1939, Belfast, Northern Ireland), is an Anglo-Irish poet. Life and career One of twin boys, Michael Longley was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to English parents, Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast A ...

Louis MacNeice Frederick Louis MacNeice (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet and playwright, and a member of the Auden Group, which also included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis. MacNeice's body of work was widely ...

, Peter McDonald,

Christopher Middleton Christopher Middleton may refer to: * Christopher Middleton (d. 1628) (1560–1628), English translator and poet *Christopher Middleton (poet) (1926–2015), British poet *Christopher Middleton (navigator) (1770), Royal Navy officer and navigator ...

Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio reco ...

Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he is currently both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University P ...

Tom Paulin Thomas Neilson Paulin (born 25 January 1949 in Leeds, England) is a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he was the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford. Ea ...

Mario Petrucci Mario Petrucci (born 1958) is a poet, literary translator, educator and broadcaster. He was born in Lambeth, London and trained as a physicist at Selwyn College in the University of Cambridge and later completed a PhD in vacuum crystal growth at ...

Craig Raine Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL (born 3 December 1944) is an English contemporary poet. Along with Christopher Reid, he is a notable pioneer of Martian poetry, a movement that expresses alienation with the world, society and objects. He was a fellow o ...

Jo Shapcott Jo Shapcott FRSL (born 24 March 1953, London) 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 Aw ...

Stephen Spender Sir Stephen Harold Spender (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by th ...

, George Szirtes, J. R. R. Tolkien, Susan Wicks and Charles Wright. Traditionally the magazine publishes winners of Oxford's Newdigate Prize.

Editors of ''Oxford Poetry''

Until the Second World War

* 1910–13: Gerald H. Crow, Geoffery Dennis, Sherard Vines * 1914: Gerald H. Crow, Sherard Vines * 1915: Gerald H. Crow, T. W. Earp * 1916: Wilfred Rowland Childe, T. W. Earp,

* 1917: Wilfred Rowland Childe, T. W. Earp, Dorothy L. Sayers * 1918: T. W. Earp, E. F. A. Geach, Dorothy L. Sayers * 1919: T. W. Earp, Dorothy L. Sayers,

Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both describ ...

* 1920:

, C. H. B. Kitchin, Alan Porter * 1921: Alan Porter, Richard Hughes,

* 1922: No editors cited. * 1923:

David Cleghorn Thomson David Cleghorn Thomson (9 October 1900 – 23 April 1980), was a Scottish journalist, author, poet, playwright, and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal and Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician. He was notably Director of the BBC's Scottish Region. ...

F. W. Bateson Frederick (Noel) Wilse Bateson (1901 – 1978) was an English literary scholar and critic. Life Bateson was born in Cheshire, and educated at Charterhouse and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he took a BA in English (second class), and then the B ...

* 1924:

Harold Acton Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in C ...

Peter Quennell Sir Peter Courtney Quennell (9 March 1905 – 27 October 1993) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. Life Born in Bickley, Kent, the son of architect C. ...

* 1925: Patrick Monkhouse, Charles Plumb * 1926: Charles Plumb, W. H. Auden * 1927: W. H. Auden, C. Day-Lewis * 1928: Clere Parsons, Basil Blackwell * 1929:

* 1930: Stephen Spender, Bernard Spencer * 1931: Bernard Spencer, Richard Goodman * 1932: Richard Goodman * 1933–5: No editions. * 1936: A. W. Sandford, Alan Rook * 1937: Nevill Coghill, Alistair Sandford * 1938–41: No editions. * 1942–3: Ian Davie, John Heath-Stubbs * 1944–5: No editions

Post-War

* 1946: Roy Macnab, Gordon Swaine * 1947:

Martin Starkie Martin Starkie (25 November 1922 – 5 November 2010) 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 Marti ...

, Roy Macnab * 1948:

Arthur Boyars Arthur Boyars (28 May 1925 – 6 August 2017)Nicholas Jacobs ''The Independent'', 14 August 2017. was a British poet and musicologist, who was also a translator and critic, literary editor and publisher. His ''Poems'' were published in 1944 ...

, Barry Harmer * 1949:

, James Michie * 1950: J. B. Donne, Donald Watt * 1951: J. B. Donne, Martin Seymour-Smith * 1952: Derwent May, James Price * 1953:

Donald Hall Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He was the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and includin ...

, Geoffrey Hill * 1954: Jonathan Price,

* 1955:

Adrian Mitchell Adrian Mitchell FRSL (24 October 1932 – 20 December 2008) was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's Ca ...

, Richard Selig * 1956:

Bernard Donoughue Bernard Donoughue, Baron Donoughue (born 8 September 1934) is a British Labour Party politician, academic, businessman and author.Roger Lonsdale Roger Harrison Lonsdale, FBA (6 August 1934 – 28 February 2022) was a British literary scholar and academic born in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire. He was a Fellow and Tutor at Balliol College Oxford from 1963 to 2000, and Professor of En ...

, Judy Spink * 1960:. John Fuller, Francis Hope * 1961–9: No editions. * 1970: Mark Wormald, Robin Leanse

''Oxford Poetry'' re-launched

* June 1983: Mick Imlah, Nicholas Jenkins, Elise Paschen, Nicola Richards * Autumn 1983: Nicholas Jenkins, Elise Paschen, Nicola Richards * 1984–5: Nicholas Jenkins,

, Peter McDonald, Elise Paschen * Winter 1986: Mark Ford, Nicholas Jenkins,

John Lanchester John Henry Lanchester (born 25 February 1962) is a British journalist and novelist. He was born in Hamburg, brought up in Hong Kong and educated in England; between 1972 and 1980 at Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk, then at St John's College, ...

, 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, Gillian Pachter, Robert Macfarlane * 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, 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, J. C. H. Potts * 2009–2011: Hamid Khanbhai, Thomas A. Richards * 2012–2014: Lavinia Singer, Aime Williams * 2015–2016: Mika Ross-Southall, Lavinia Singer, Andrew Wynn Owen * 2017:

Nancy Campbell Nancy Campbell is a British poet, non-fiction writer and publisher of artist's books. Her first collection of poetry, ''Disko Bay'' (2015), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Other works include ''The Library of Ice' ...

, Mary Jean Chan, Theophilus Kwek * 2018–2020: Mary Jean Chan, Theophilus Kwek,

Jay Bernard Jay Bernard may refer to: *Jay Bernard (writer) Jay Bernard (born 1988), FRSL, is a British writer, artist, film programmer, and activist from London, UK. Bernard has been a programmer at BFI Flare since 2014, co-editor of ''Oxford Poetry'', and ...

, Luke Allan *2021–: Luke Allan

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