Rules of Submission

OP is now accepting submissions of previously unpublished poetry for the issue due in Summer 2010.

• No more than four original poems and/or translations. There is no restriction on length.
• You can submit by email (PDF preferred; RTF and Word DOC are also accepted).
• 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 June 2010.

Poetry Press

"And that is Strand’s characteristic jest, to start singing when about to be cut-off." Donald Brown on Mark Strand • Quarterly Conversation

"Carson consent[s] to love's absolute dare and . . . displaces herself from the centre of the writing." James Pollock on Anne Carson • Contemporary Poetry Review

"The day I visited Wheeler Hall, Gunn was lecturing on Fulke Greville." Joshua Weiner on Thom Gunn and Fulke Greville • Ploughshares

"Our words seem to us to resonate in a present moment more present than those we normally live. Comparable with moments of making love, of facing imminent danger, of taking an irrevocable decision, of dancing a tango." John Berger on Mahmoud Darwish • Threepenny Review

"Perhaps after years of testing the edges of his mind, stringing out his voice and stretching it to encompass others’, [Bin] Ramke now feels he can incorporate more of the character of other voices with fewer of their words." Craig Morgan Teicher • Boston Review

"Work in the middle space by now should have added up to an important and fruitful development in contemporary poetry." Michael Theune on Kent Johnston • Pleiades (PDF)

"[Heather McHugh's] poems about these subjects, and many others, offer a refreshing return to—and reinvention of—staple poetic devices like wit and metaphysical speculation." Stephen Ross • The Oxonian Review

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