Online Texts - Poems, Interviews and more
These pages house many of the interviews with poets and critics that have appeared in the magazine since OP's relaunch in 1983. There is also a sample of writing reproduced from previous issues, including the cryptic 1927 preface by W H Auden and Cecil Day-Lewis and poems from the earliest numbers. For copyright reasons we are unable to place as much modern verse here as we would like.
Interviews with Poets
- Gavin Ewart, OP I.1
- Anne Stevenson, OP I.2
- Mick Imlah, OP I.2
- James Berry, OP II.1
- Douglas Dunn, OP II.2
- Amy Clampitt, OP III.1
- Paul Muldoon, OP III.1
- David Constantine, OP III.2
- Fleur Adcock, OP III.3
- Andrew Motion, OP IV.2
- Adam Thorpe, OP V.2
- Neil Astley, OP V.2
- Peter Reading, OP V.3
- James Fenton, OP VI.1
- John Ashbery, OP VI.2
- Elizabeth Jennings, OP VI.6
- Tom Paulin, OP VII.1
- Stephen Romer, OP VII.1
- Kathleen Jamie, OP VII.2
- Thomas A Clark, OP VII.3
- Blake Morrison, OP VII.3
- Peter Robinson, OP VIII.1
- Medbh McGuckian, OP VIII.2
- Jamie McKendrick, OP VIII.2
- Don Paterson, OP VIII.3
- Robert Crawford, OP IX.1
- Christopher Logue, OP IX.2
- Justin Quinn, OP IX.2
- Simon Armitage, OP X.1
Extracts from Issues
- Typical poem from the first issue (1910-13)
- Last Poem, F St V Morris (1917)
- Auden and Day-Lewis Preface (1927)
- Fuller and Hope Preface (1960)
- War and Peace, John Redmond (1993)
- Feature on the Poetry Industry (1993)
- Gunpowder, Bernard O'Donoghue (1995)
- Review of Birthday Letters, Tim Kendall (1998)
- Letter to the Man I Love, Polly Clark (1999)
- from Round and Round, John Fuller (1997-9)
- Smear, Anonymous (May 25, 2009, XIII.1)
"Through about seventy lines Mr Auden continues to show his inability to appreciate the meaning of words" Isis review of Oxford Poetry 1926