{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox magazine |title = Oxford Poetry |image_file = Oxfordpoetry.jpg |image_size = 300px |image_caption = |editor = Luke Allan |editor_title = Editor |previous_editor = [[Aldous Huxley]] (1916)<br/>[[Dorothy Sayers]] (1917–18)<br/>[[Siegfried Sassoon]] (1919)<br />[[Robert Graves]] (1921)<br/>[[Harold Acton]] (1924)<br/>[[W. H. Auden]] (1927)<br/>W. H. Auden, [[Cecil Day-Lewis]] (1927)<br/>[[Louis MacNeice]], [[Stephen Spender]] (1929)<br>[[Kingsley Amis]] (1949)<br>[[Donald Hall]], [[Geoffrey Hill]] (1953)<br/>[[Anthony Thwaite]] (1954)<br/>[[Adrian Mitchell]] (1955)<br/>[[John Fuller (poet)|John Fuller]] (1960)<br/> |frequency = Twice a year |circulation = 2,000 |category = [[Poetry]] |company = |publisher = [[Partus Press]] |firstdate = 1910 |country = United Kingdom |based = [[Oxford]], England |language = English |website = http://www.oxfordpoetry.com/ |issn = 1465-6213 }}
'''''Oxford Poetry''''' is a [[literary magazine]] based in [[Oxford]], England.<ref>{{cite news |last=Phipps |first=John |date=22 March 2019 |title=Oxford's thriving poetry scene |url=https://www.ft.com/content/d66b2032-4a40-11e9-bde6-79eaea5acb64 |work=[[Financial Times]] |location= |access-date=28 March 2021}}</ref> It is currently edited by Luke Allan. The magazine is published by [[Partus Press]].
Founded in 1910 by [[Basil Blackwell]], its editors have included [[Dorothy L. Sayers]], [[Aldous Huxley]], [[Robert Graves]], [[Vera Brittain]], [[Kingsley Amis]], [[Anthony Thwaite]], [[John Fuller (poet)|John Fuller]] and [[Bernard O'Donoghue]].
Among the authors to have appeared in ''Oxford Poetry'' are [[Fleur Adcock]], [[Al Alvarez|A. Alvarez]], [[W. H. Auden]], [[Anne Carson]], [[Nevill Coghill]], [[David Constantine]], [[Robert Crawford (Scottish poet)|Robert Crawford]], [[Carol Ann Duffy]], [[Elaine Feinstein]], [[Graham Greene]], [[Seamus Heaney]], [[W. N. Herbert]], [[Geoffrey Hill]], [[Christopher Isherwood]], [[Elizabeth Jennings (poet)|Elizabeth Jennings]], [[Jenny Joseph]], [[Stephen Thomas Knight|Stephen Knight]], [[Ronald Knox]], [[Philip Larkin]], [[Cecil Day-Lewis]], [[Michael Longley]], [[Louis MacNeice]], [[Peter McDonald (critic)|Peter McDonald]], [[Christopher Middleton (poet)|Christopher Middleton]], [[Andrew Motion]], [[Paul Muldoon]], [[Tom Paulin]], [[Mario Petrucci]], [[Craig Raine]], [[Jo Shapcott]], [[Stephen Spender]], [[George Szirtes]], [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], [[Susan Wicks]] and [[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]].
As well as publishing two issues per year, the magazine hosts the annual Oxford Poetry Prize. The 2022 Prize was judged by [[Emily Berry]]. First prize was won by [[Dominic Leonard]], second prize by [[Linda Ravenswood]], and third prize by [[Caleb Leow]].<ref>Winners of the Oxford Prize 2022 named https://www.oxfordpoetry.com/News.html#22winners</ref> The 2023 edition of the Prize was judged by [[Will Harris (poet)|Will Harris]]. First prize was won by [[Miruna Fulgeanu]], second prize by [[Jo Davis (poet)|Jo Davis]], and third prize by [[Eric Yip]]. <ref>Winners of the Oxford Prize 2023 named https://www.oxfordpoetry.com/News.html#23winners</ref> Before the inauguration of the Oxford Poetry Prize in 2022, the magazine traditionally published the winners of Oxford's [[Newdigate Prize]]. ==Editors of ''Oxford Poetry''== ===Until the Second World War=== * 1910–13: [[G. D. H. Cole]], [[Geoffrey Dennis]], [[Sherard Vines]] * 1914: G. D. H. Cole, [[Sherard Vines]] * 1915: G. D. H. Cole, T. W. Earp * 1916: [[Wilfred Rowland Childe]], T. W. Earp, [[Aldous Huxley]] * 1917: Wilfred Rowland Childe, T. W. Earp, [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] * 1918: T. W. Earp, [[E. F. A. Geach]], Dorothy L. Sayers * 1919: T. W. Earp, Dorothy L. Sayers, [[Siegfried Sassoon]] * 1920: [[Vera Brittain]], [[C. H. B. Kitchin]], Alan Porter * 1921: Alan Porter, [[Richard Hughes (writer)|Richard Hughes]], [[Robert Graves]] * 1922: No editors cited. * 1923: [[David Cleghorn Thomson]], [[F. W. Bateson]] * 1924: [[Harold Acton]], [[Peter Quennell]] * 1925: Patrick Monkhouse, Charles Plumb * 1926: Charles Plumb, [[W. H. Auden]] * 1927: [[W. H. Auden]], [[C. Day-Lewis]] * 1928: [[Clere Parsons]], [[Basil Blackwell]] * 1929: [[Louis MacNeice]], [[Stephen Spender]] * 1930: Stephen Spender, [[Bernard Spencer]] * 1931: Bernard Spencer, Richard Goodman * 1932: Richard Goodman * 1933–5: No editions. * 1936: A. W. Sandford, [[Alan Rook]] * 1937: [[Nevill Coghill]], Alistair Sandford * 1938–41: No editions. * 1942–3: Ian Davie, [[John Heath-Stubbs]] * 1944–5: No editions
===Post-War=== * 1946: Roy Macnab, Gordon Swaine * 1947: [[Martin Starkie]], Roy Macnab * 1948: [[Arthur Boyars]], [[Barry Harmer]] * 1949: [[Kingsley Amis]], James Michie * 1950: J. B. Donne, [[Donald Watt (poet)|Donald Watt]] * 1951: J. B. Donne, Martin Seymour-Smith * 1952: Derwent May, James Price * 1953: [[Donald Hall]], [[Geoffrey Hill]] * 1954: Jonathan Price, [[Anthony Thwaite]] * 1955: [[Adrian Mitchell]], Richard Selig * 1956: [[Bernard Donoughue]], Gabriel Pearson * 1957: Peter Ferguson, Dennis Keene * 1958:. [[Roger Lonsdale]], Judy Spink * 1960:. [[John Fuller (poet)|John Fuller]], Francis Hope * 1961–9: No editions. * 1970: Mark Wormald, Robin Leanse
===''Oxford Poetry'' re-launched=== * June 1983: [[Mick Imlah]], Nicholas Jenkins, [[Elise Paschen]], Nicola Richards * Autumn 1983: Nicholas Jenkins, Elise Paschen, Nicola Richards * 1984–5: Nicholas Jenkins, [[Bernard O'Donoghue]], [[Peter McDonald (critic)|Peter McDonald]], Elise Paschen * Winter 1986: [[Mark Ford (poet)|Mark Ford]], Nicholas Jenkins, [[John Lanchester]], Elise Paschen * Summer 1987: Mark Ford, Elise Paschen, Mark Wormald * Winter 1987: Elise Paschen, Mark Wormald * 1988: Mark Wormald, Sarah Dence, Bernard O'Donoghue, Janice Whitten * 1989–91: Mark Wormald * Summer 1992: Sinéad Garrigan, Kate Reeves, Mark Wormald * Winter 1992: Sinéad Garrigan, Kate Reeves * Summer 1993: Sinéad Garrigan, Kate Reeves, Ian Samson * Winter 1993: Sinéad Garrigan, Ian Samson * Summer 1994: Sinéad Garrigan, Ian Samson * Winter 1994. Sinéad Garrigan, Sam Leith * 1995: Sinéad Garrigan, Sam Leith * 1996–7: No editions. * Easter 1998: [[Graham Nelson]], Gillian Pachter, [[Robert Macfarlane (writer)|Robert Macfarlane]] * Winter 1998: Graham Nelson, Robert Macfarlane * 1999: Graham Nelson, Jane Griffiths * 2000: Graham Nelson, Jane Griffiths, Jenni Nuttall
===21st century=== * 2003: [[Carmen Bugan]], [[Kelly Grovier]], Sarah Hesketh * 2004: [[Carmen Bugan]], Kelly Grovier, Sinéad Sturgeon * 2006: [[Carmen Bugan]], Kelly Grovier, Richard Rowley, Sinéad Sturgeon * 2007: Paul Thomas Abbott * 2008: Benjamin Mullen, J. C. H. Potts * 2009–2011: Hamid Khanbhai, Thomas A. Richards * 2012–2014: Lavinia Singer, Aime Williams * 2015–2016: [[Mika Ross-Southall]], [[Lavinia Singer]], [[Andrew Wynn Owen]] * 2017: [[Nancy Campbell]], [[Mary Jean Chan]], [[Theophilus Kwek]] * 2018–2020: [[Mary Jean Chan]], [[Theophilus Kwek]], [[Jay Bernard (writer)|Jay Bernard]], Luke Allan *2021–: Luke Allan
== See also == * ''[[The Oxford Magazine]]''
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.oxfordpoetry.co.uk/ ''Oxford Poetry'' homepage] — including online texts * {{librivox book | title=Oxford Poetry}}
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