Founded in 1910, Oxford Poetry is the oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the UK, and one of the oldest in the English-speaking world.

This Substack is our newsletter. We are embarking on a project to excavate our vast archive and will be sending out highlights to subscriber inboxes. We’ll also be sharing content from our latest issues, and publishing exclusive new writing by some of today’s leading poets and poetry critics.

Other ways to connect with us

Oxford Poetry is published biannually as a print magazine. You can subscribe to the print issues here or buy individual copies here. During our reading windows, we accept submissions from poets writing in English across the world. Once a year, we award the Oxford Poetry Prize. Here are links to our website and our Instagram.

Our history

The magazine was originally published by Basil Blackwell. Previous editors have included Kingsley Amis, W. H. Auden, Vera Brittain, Cecil Day-Lewis, John Fuller, Mark Ford, Robert Graves, Geoffrey Hill, Aldous Huxley, Robert Macfarlane, Louis MacNeice, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Stephen Spender. In the 1980s, Mick Imlah, Elise Paschen, Bernard O’Donoghue, and others revived Oxford Poetry as a more public-facing journal. The magazine is now published by the Oxford-based Partus Press. Our current editor-in-chief is Luke Allan. You can see our masthead here.

In addition to our illustrious editors, past contributors to the magazine have included Fleur Adcock, Al Alvarez, Simon Armitage, Eavan Boland, Anne Carson, David Constantine, Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, Ishion Hutchinson, Christopher Isherwood, Pierre Joris, Philip Larkin, Michael Longley, Glyn Maxwell, Jamie McKendrick, James Merrill, Andrew Motion, Paul Muldoon, Robert Pinsky, Pam Rehm, Jo Shapcott, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. K. Williams.