Selected Poems James Fenton

Name: Selected Poems By James Fenton
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Selected Poems by James Fenton

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Presents a selection of James Fenton's best of his prize-winning poetry. He writes with a mixture of poetic language and real directness.

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Selected Poems by James Fenton

For the first time, James Fenton selects the best of his prize-winning poetry for the "Penguin Selected" series. 'Passionate and personal; Fenton's poems can also be extremely funny and violent; they are always full of the pleasures of the language' - Paul Theroux. 'James Fenton is very popular - it's the way he writes, with a mixture of poetic language and real directness' - Peter Porter.

About James Fenton

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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Sku

GOR002762337

ISBN 13

9780141024417

ISBN 10

0141024410

Title

Selected Poems by James Fenton

Author

James Fenton

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

2006-02-02

Number of pages

224

Prizes

N/A

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