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The editors are currently reading poems sent for OP XIV.2, and hope to respond in the next two weeks to those who have submitted work. Publication has been delayed until early 2012.

OP XIII.2, in memoriam Mick Imlah, is now sold out.

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What is Oxford Poetry ?

Oxford Poetry is over 100 years old. It is probably the oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the world today.

The magazine was started in 1910 by Oxford undergraduates and published by Basil Blackwell. Previous editors have included Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Kingsley Amis, Geoffrey Hill, John Fuller, John Lanchester and Robert Macfarlane. In the 1980s, Mick Imlah, Nicholas Jenkins and Bernard O'Donoghue revived it as a more outward-looking journal - no longer restricted to publishing student poetry but maintaining a connection with the university.

The list of contributors throughout its history is as impressive as it is diverse. In recent years readers would have come across poems by Seamus Heaney, Andrew Motion, Mario Petrucci, Wendy Cope, George Szirtes, Carol Ann Duffy, David Constantine and Glyn Maxwell.

Find out more about the magazine’s history or browse through the selection of online texts.

Read about how to submit work or subscribe.

Poetry Press

"However, we must settle down, here at the back of the class, and grant that The Complete Poems is an almost fanatically painstaking and altogether admirable piece of work." John Banville • Guardian

"Frivolous and serious, mischievous and magisterial, poets play both sides of the coin of freedom — heads they study (“the scholar’s art,” Wallace Stevens called poetry), tails they frisk. If freedom and poetry seem paradoxical, freedom and poets are all but identical." Ange Mlinko on Susan Stewart • LARB (scroll down)

"His translation frequently makes the verbal imperatives of an epic style an aid to vividness." Jeremy Noel-Tod on Simon Armitage • Telegraph

"He was often reduced to penury, and the humiliation of calling on his muses to plea for money in verse." Charles Isherwood on Ben Jonson • NYT

"Squeak, there are other animals inside the pump, the great manatee -- Trichechus manatus -- you've seen it float like a rug that has something wrapped in it among grasses that will not return." Brenda Hillman • Interim

"You know, on my first book I got one rather favorable review that wound up saying, “she has no philosophy whatever.” People who are city people are often bothered by all this “nature” in my poems." Elizabeth Bishop (1977) • Ploughshares

"The lack of substantive criticism of his work is almost certainly due to the fact that each sympathetic critic who comes along—Hollander, Ormsby—feels duty-bound to make the case for the poet afresh, with just enough space left over for those so inclined—Kinzie, or more recently Jason Guriel—to distinguish between Hine’s best work and those places where his genius, to revise Hollander, doesn’t know where to leave off." Bill Coyle on Daryl Hine • CPR

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