Selected Poems by James Fenton
Presents a selection of James Fenton's best of his prize-winning poetry. He writes with a mixture of poetic language and real directness.
James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondence, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry for the period 1994-99. He has published three volumes of poetry with Penguin, The Memory of War, Out of Danger and The Love Bomb, as well as An Introduction to English Poetry (2002). His work has won him the Southern Arts Literature Award for Poetry, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Award for Poetry. He writes regularly for the New Yorker and the Guardian.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141024417 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141024410 |
| Title | Selected Poems |
| Author | James Fenton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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