William Oxley

William Oxley (born in 1939) is an English poet and philosopher. Born in Manchester, he married Patricia Holmes in 1963. They have two daughters, Elizabeth Helen (b.1966) and Katie Sarah (b.1969)

Oxley's poems have been widely published throughout the world, in magazines and journals as diverse as The New York Times and The Formalist (USA), The Scotsman, New Statesman, The London Magazine, Stand, The Independent, The Spectator and The Observer. Following the publication of a number of his works on the Continent in the 1980s and 1990s, Oxley was dubbed one of Britain's first Europoets.{Vitalism and Celebration. Salzburg 1987. Salzburg University Press. Preface, p.7} He has read his work on UK and European radio and is the only British poet to have read in Shangri-la, Nepal. He published his first volume of poetry fifty years ago in 1967, and his latest volume in 2015. In between he has published thirty-one poetry publications plus volumes of autobiography, literary criticism and philosophy.

A former member of the General Council of the Poetry Society, he is interviews editor of Acumen magazine and co-founder of the Torbay Poetry Festival. He co-edited the newsletter of the Long Poem Group for several years, as its founder. He was Millennium Year poet-in-residence for Torbay in Devon. A limited edition print employing lines from his epic, A Map of Time, was chosen by the Dept. of Cartography, University of Wisconsin to use, with appropriate illustration, in their Annual Broadsheet for 2002. Another of his long poems, Over the Hills of Hampstead, was awarded first prize by the on-line long poem magazine, Echoes of Gilgamesh. In 2008 he received the Torbay ArtsBase Award for Literature. His work is featured on various websites, including, from its beginning, Anne Stewart's prestigious www.poetrypf.co.uk and www.creativetorbay.com.

Publications:

The Dark Structures. London, Mitre Press, 1967.

Mirrors of the Sea. London, Quarto Press, 1973.

The Notebook of Hephaestus and Other Poems, Kinross, Lomond Prcss, 1981.

A Map of Time. Salzburg, University of Salzburg, 1984.

The Triviad and Other Satires. Salzburg, University of Salzburg, 1984.

The Mansands Trilogy, Richmond, Surrey, Keepsake Press, 1988.

Mad Tom on Tower Hill. Exeter, Stride, 1989.

Forest Sequence. Bath, Mammon Press, 1991.

The Patient Reconstruction of Paradise. Brixham, Devon, Acumen Publications, 1991.

The Playboy Salzburg, University of Salzburg, 1992.

In The Drift of Words. Ware, Rockingham Press, 1992.

Cardboard Troy. Exeter, Stride, 1993.

The Hallsands Tragedy. Plymouth, Westwords, 1993.

Collected Longer Poems. Salzburg, University of Salzburg, 1994.

The Green Crayon Man. Ware, Rockingham Press 1997.

Reclaiming the Lyre, New and Selected Poems. Ware, Rockingham Press 2000.

Namaste, Nepal Poems, London, Hearing Eye 2004.

London Visions, Bristol, Bluechrome, 2005.

Poems Antibes. Ware, Rockingham Press, 2006.

Sunlight in a Champagne Glass. Ware, Rockingham Press, 2009.

ISCA ‒ Exeter Moments. Brixham, Ember Press 2013.

Collected and New Poems. Ware, Rockingham Press, 2014.

Walking Sequence and Other Poems. Beaworthy, Indigo Dreams, 2015.

Translations:

Poems of a Black Orpheus, Leopold S. Senghor. London, Menard Press. 1981.

Ndessé, Leopold S. Senghor. London, Menard Press. 1981.

She Chases Me Relentlessly, Leopold S. Senghor. London, Menard Press. 1986.

Poems from the Divan of Hafez, (with Parvin Loloi). Torbay, Acumen Publications. 2013.

Editor:

Completing the Picture - (Anthology). Exeter, Stride Publications, 1995.

Long Poem Group Newsletter - (issues 1-12) (with Sebastian Barker), Torbay, Acumen Publications, 1995 - 2002.

The Residency (Nos 1-2 only) Torbay, Acumen Publications, 2000 - 2001.

Making a Splash, prize-winners' anthology (with Penelope Shuttle)Torbay, Acumen Publications, 2001

Modern Poets of Europe (with Patricia Oxley), Kathmandu, Nepal. Spiny Babbler, 2004.

Bibliographies:

William Oxley. A Bibliography by James Hogg, Salzburg, University of Salzburg, 1984;

William Oxley: A Bibliography by Wolfgang Giirtschacher, Salzburg, University of Salzburg, 1992.