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Visit www.penguin.co.uk
or www.fsgbooks.com
for more information or to order.
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D. H. Lawrence -- Selected Poems
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James Fenton edited a new edition
of D. H. Lawrence's poems for Penguin. To purchase the collection,
please visit the publisher's website at www.penguin.co.uk.
It is also available from Amazon.co.uk.
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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 correspondent, 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. In 2007, Fenton was
awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Fenton's Selected
Poems is published by Penguin
and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
He is also the editor of The New
Faber Book of Love Poems and D.
H. Lawrence's Selected Poems (Penguin).
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Fenton Reviews ...
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 Fenton
reviews Marjorie Garber's Patronizing the Arts (Princeton
University Press, 2008). Read
the review at The First Post.
"When writers began to be able to break
free of aristocratic patrons, in the 18th century, they were
mightily relieved. It was a matter of self-respect, for the
old system was full of opportunities for humiliation. One artist
of the 17th century, as Marjorie Garber tells us in Patronizing
the Arts, upon entering a noble household in Rome, was put on
the same payroll level as three slaves, a gardener, a dwarf
and an old nurse."
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Fenton on Books: The Cultural Flaneur
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Fenton is one of several authors asked to select books to read
on holiday. For the full recommendation, please
visit The Guardian website (6 July 2008).
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Songs of the Tsunami
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Alone in Hamburg in January 2005, James
Fenton was bombarded by images from the Boxing Day tsunami. In
an essay published in The Guardian, Fenton tells how he
came to write the lyrics for a commemorative piece of music.
Read
the article in The Guardian.
Note: Dominic Muldowney's
Tsunami was made possible by the Elgar Bursary, which is
administered by the Royal Philharmonic Society. Poetry by James
Fenton commissioned by the BBC. Tsunami has its world premiere
at the Barbican, London EC2, this Friday, performed by the BBC
Symphony Orchestra. Details: barbican.org.uk
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Ian McEwan on James Fenton
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"There is a strong case to be made
that James Fenton is the finest poet writing in English. His technical
virtuosity is beyond doubt; his long experience as war correspondent,
journalist and traveller has given him an unmatched range of subject
matter - war and revolution, the dementia of collective passions,
reflections on fate, and love - he has written some of the most
beautiful love poems of our times. He is a poet of great emotional
depth and wisdom. Increasingly, his work has a strong connection
with song. He also has a taste for light verse of exquisite charm
and humour. He is a modern master."
-- Ian McEwan, responding to a question from the National
Book Critics Circle
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