Oxford Poetry
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| Editor | Luke Allan |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Aldous Huxley(1916) Dorothy Sayers(1917–18) Siegfried Sassoon(1919) Robert Graves(1921) Harold Acton(1924) W. H. Auden(1927) W. H. Auden,Cecil Day-Lewis(1927) Louis MacNeice,Stephen Spender(1929) Kingsley Amis(1949) Donald Hall,Geoffrey Hill(1953) Anthony Thwaite(1954) Adrian Mitchell(1955) John Fuller(1960) |
| Categories | Poetry |
| Frequency | Twice a year |
| Circulation | 2,000 |
| Publisher | Partus Press |
| First issue | 1910 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | Oxford,England |
| Language | English |
| Website | http:// oxfordpoetry / |
| ISSN | 1465-6213 |
Oxford Poetryis aliterary magazinebased inOxford,England.[1]It is currently edited by Luke Allan. The magazine is published byPartus Press.
Founded in 1910 byBasil Blackwell,its editors have includedDorothy L. Sayers,Aldous Huxley,Robert Graves,Vera Brittain,Kingsley Amis,Anthony Thwaite,John FullerandBernard O'Donoghue.
Recent winners of the Oxford Prize includeDominic Leonard,Linda Ravenswood,andCaleb Leow.[2]Among the other authors to have appeared inOxford PoetryareFleur Adcock,A. Alvarez,W. H. Auden,Anne Carson,Nevill Coghill,David Constantine,Robert Crawford,Carol Ann Duffy,Elaine Feinstein,Graham Greene,Seamus Heaney,W. N. Herbert,Geoffrey Hill,Christopher Isherwood,Elizabeth Jennings,Jenny Joseph,Stephen Knight,Ronald Knox,Philip Larkin,C. Day-Lewis,Michael Longley,Louis MacNeice,Peter McDonald,Christopher Middleton,Andrew Motion,Paul Muldoon,Tom Paulin,Mario Petrucci,Craig Raine,Jo Shapcott,Stephen Spender,George Szirtes,J. R. R. Tolkien,Susan WicksandCharles Wright.Traditionally the magazine publishes winners of Oxford'sNewdigate Prize.
Editors ofOxford Poetry[edit]
Until the Second World War[edit]
- 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,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[edit]
- 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
- 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,Francis Hope
- 1961–9: No editions.
- 1970: Mark Wormald, Robin Leanse
Oxford Poetryre-launched[edit]
- 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,Elise Paschen
- Winter 1986: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
- Winter 1998: Graham Nelson, Robert Macfarlane
- 1999: Graham Nelson, Jane Griffiths
- 2000: Graham Nelson, Jane Griffiths, Jenni Nuttall
21st century[edit]
- 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,Luke Allan
- 2021–: Luke Allan
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Phipps, John (22 March 2019)."Oxford's thriving poetry scene".Financial Times.Retrieved28 March2021.
- ^Winners of the Oxford Prize 2022 namedhttps:// oxfordpoetry /News.html#22winners
External links[edit]
- Oxford Poetryhomepage— including online texts
Oxford Poetrypublic domain audiobook atLibriVox