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.
See also The Poetry Library's website for poetry magazines.
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