Poetry magazines

Founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort, MPT brings the best new translations, essays and reviews that address such characteristic signs of our times as exile, the movement of peoples, the search for asylum, and the speaking of languages outside their native home.

MQB is a tri-annual magazine of poetry, prose and reviews and is a hardcopy only publication. It has a taste for workplace poems, black humour and work which challenges all forms of conformism. Editors: Alan Dent and Nancy Frost

Mslexia is committed to helping women writers progress and succeed, through their quarterly magazine, writer’s diary and annual writing competitions. Editor: Debbie Taylor.

Obsessed With Pipework is a quarterly magazine of new poetry which began in 1997, providing a platform for established or beginning writers' poems that surprise and delight. Editors: Charles Johnson & Penny Sharman.

Orbis is a long-standing quarterly international literary journal, based in the UK. Editor: Carole Baldock.

Founded in 1910, Oxford Poetry is the oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the UK. Originally established by undergraduates at the University of Oxford, today Oxford Poetry has no formal affiliation with the university and is published by the Oxford-based Partus Press. Editor: Luke Allan.

Established in 1973, Pennine Platform is a 60-page, perfect-bound poetry magazine, published twice a year. It is independent and completely self-supporting. Editor: Julia Deakin.

Planet was first established in 1970, with the aim of creating a forum for debate about Wales in English, as well as encouraging a dialogue between English-speaking Wales and Welsh-speaking Wales. Editor: Emily Trahair.

Launched as Poetry Nation, a twice-yearly hardback, in 1973, PN Review in A4 paperback format began quarterly publication in 1976 and has appeared six times a year since PN Review 21 in 1981. Each issue includes an editorial, letters, news and notes, articles, interviews, features, poems, translations, and a substantial book review section. Editor: Michael Schmidt.

PBS Bulletin, distributed to members of the Poetry Book Society, is a quarterly review of new poetry, which contains interviews with major international poets, in depth commentary, reviews and sneak preview poems.

Published three times a year, the Review includes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets, essayists, critics and visual artists. They welcome unsolicited submissions of poems, and proposals for articles and reviews, from Ireland and abroad, in Irish or English.

Poetry London is an arts charity and leading international poetry magazine where acclaimed contemporary poets share pages with exciting new names. Published three times a year in February, May and September, each issue contains new poetry, incisive reviews and features. Editor: Niall Campbell.