Rules of Submission

OP XIV.2, due in December 2011, will be dedicated to Modern Chanson - definitions, history, wider European traditions, the apparent absence of anglophone Chanson.

We encourage the submission of original Chansons in English (with music if possible), as well as poems about or inspired by Chanson or chansonniers (e.g. Jacques Brel, Fabrizio de Andre, Mikhail Scherbakov). Submissions of original but unrelated poetry will also be considered.

  • No more than four original poems and/or translations. There is no restriction on length.
  • We prefer submissions by email (PDF, RTF or Word DOC).
  • Alternatively, our postal address is Oxford Poetry, Magdalen College, Oxford, OX1 4AU. Typescripts cannot be returned.
  • We will respond to submissions as soon as possible after the deadline, 1st October 2011.
Poetry Press

"Which Poetry Editor Are You? (The following is intended for entertainment purposes only and should not be used to ascertain one’s eligibility for grants.)" Lucy Ives • Poetry

"Peters acknowledges their continuing bond but finds what she sees as Zukofsky’s sexism and superciliousness deplorable." Majorie Perloff on Lorine Niedecker • TLS

"After all, considering that we must live either in the country or in the town, the person who does not notice one or the other is more eccentric than the person who does." Virginia Woolf on Edward Thomas (1917) • TLS

"Two millennia ago, the farmer-poet Horace called his plutocratic patron – and friend - Maecenas "the shield and glory of my life". Today's Maecenases need, at least, dialogue not disdain." Boyd Tomkin • Independent

"The mythic vision of engaging Apollo in a divine music-making contest devolves into notes that would seem more appropriate for a toilet-paper-roll blowgun." Tom Sleigh • Blackbird

"Warren took it upon himself to write a thirty-page handout on metrics and imagery, which was first used in the spring semester of 1935. A year later, the handout had been expanded to include fiction, drama, and prose—and was printed by LSU with the title, An Approach to Literature. (The scholarly old-guard on campus, unimpressed by the book, began calling it 'The Reproach to Literature.')" Garrick Davis • Contemporary Poetry Review

"If I saw all of these movies, I asked myself, how did I ever find the time to sleep, eat, read books, teach students, raise a family and write hundreds of poems?" Charles Simic • NYRB

from ThePage