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- A very well-known poet has sent us, for anonymous publication, a poem entitled 'Smear' and dedicated 'to the lamplighters of 21st-century Oxford'. In light of the recent poetry news relating to the Oxford Professor of Poetry, we reproduce the poem in full here with permission from the author. It is also a last-minute supplement to our latest issue, on sale now.
- The Spring edition of Oxford Poetry, Vol. XIII no. 1 is available now.
- Poems from Les Murray, Yusef Komunyakaa, Kathryn Simmonds, John Fuller, Caroline Bird and others.
- Reviews of new collections by David Constantine, Polly Clark, Joshua Beckman, Steven Zultanski and Kenneth Koch's Collected.
- Photography by Peter Fraser at the Ruskin.
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What is Oxford Poetry ?
Oxford Poetry is 99 years old this year. It is 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.
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