Introducing our summer issue

We are pleased to introduce the summer 2026 issue of Oxford Poetry.

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The summer 2026 issue features poems by P. Q. R. Anderson, Elizabeth Atherton, Emily Bludworth de Barrios, Marlena D. Brown, Rachel Bruce, Jacob Burgess Rollo, Heather Chapman, M. Cynthia Cheung, Sara Dudo, Bidhya Limbu, Michael Marberry, Julia Anna Morrison, Jana Prikryl, Tristram Fane Saunders, Gnaomi Siemens, Talin Tahajian, Alora Young, and Rosanna Young Oh. Plus Sinéad Morrissey on The Poems of Seamus Heaney and Rowland Bagnall on Ursula K. Le Guin’s poems and maps.

The front cover features lines from Emily Bludworth de Barrios’s poem ‘Bags of Teeth ’, from the issue, and a marbled paper design by Daniela Prina.

A reminder that this year’s Oxford Poetry Prize closes on 31 August, with a total prize pot of £3,500. In addition to the cash prizes, all prize-winning poets are offered publication in the print magazine Oxford Poetry. Read the full T&Cs here.

ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS is the author of Silver and Living Weapon, both published by Faber. He is poetry editor of The New Republic and editor of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. He is Presidential and Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University, and lives in New York and Barcelona.