About Acumen
Acumen: n. the ability to judge well; insight.
Acumen is a literary journal that places an emphasis on poetry. Edited for 25 years by Patricia Oxley, Acumen publishes a varied and impressive list of poets and critics. The magazine is also known to be on the lookout for high-quality work by new and unknown talent of all ages.
Published three times a year (January, May and September), the magazine contains approximately 50 new poems (including translations), reviews, poetry comment, and reader feedback. The critical articles are designed to set the reader thinking and thereby promote discussion within the correspondence columns of the magazine.
“Acumen mixes poems and prose by celebrated and new writers who have something to say and say it well.” – Dannie Abse
“Acumen deserves to be read for its first hand experience of poetry. The work it does is the opposite of academic and therefore valuable.” – Hugo Williams (winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 1999)
Featured Titles
 | Acumen - Issue 72 by Patricia Oxley Celebrating the Year of the Dragon. Featuring three poems with QR codes, so the poet can be heard reading from the pages. £4.50 |  | First Sixty: The Acumen Anthology by Patricia Oxley An anthology no serious poetry lover should be without. £9.99 |
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