Oxford Poetry is a literary magazine based in Oxford, England. 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 and Bernard O'Donoghue.
Among the authors to have appeared in Oxford Poetry are Fleur 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, Cecil 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 Wicks and 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. The 2023 edition of the Prize was judged by Will Harris. First prize was won by Miruna Fulgeanu, second prize by Jo Davis, and third prize by Eric Yip. 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, 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
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 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, 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