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).

James Fenton: View from America

James Fenton takes a close look at the issues facing America in this series of articles for The Evening Standard. 'The Constitution Is a Thorn in Many Americans’ Sides.' London Evening Standard (27 August 2010) [Fenton discusses U.S. immigration policy and the Fourteenth Amendment]. 'Sarah Palin Is One Screwball Who Could Upset the US Apple Cart.' London Evening Standard (20 August 2010) [Fenton on Alaska's former Governor]. 'When Will Barack Obama Come Out in Favour of Gay Marriage?.' London Evening Standard (13 August 2010) [Fenton on California's Prop 8 and President Obama's position on gay marriage]. 'The Ground Zero Mosque Would Heal Old Wounds.' London Evening Standard (6 August 2010) [Fenton on building a place of worship for Muslims near the World Trade Center]. 'John McCain Is in Thrall to the Monster He Has Created.' London Evening Standard (30 July 2010) [Fenton on Arizona's Senator]. For additional articles in this series, please visit the Articles & Essays page.

John Fuller & the Sycamore Press

James Fenton's earliest poetry was published by John Fuller in his garage in Oxford. John Fuller & the Sycamore Press: A Bibliographic History includes over twenty author contributions recalling John Fuller, his press, and the poetry he published. Fuller provides a foreword and an interview, and each of the publications he produced is featured in a descriptive bibliography. (Order direct from the Bodleian Library, Oak Knoll Press, Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com) From the Publisher: Established in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. In addition to publishing established authors, such as W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and Peter Porter, the press sought to promote young poets, many of whom have gone on to achieve great success. The Sycamore Press ceased operations in 1992, but it remains an excellent example of the unique qualities associated with the small press movement in England. In addition to a full descriptive bibliography, the book includes an interview with John Fuller and numerous personal reflections by Sycamore Press authors about John Fuller, the press, and the works it produced. View a promotional flyer from Oak Knoll Press.

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

James Fenton provides a new introduction to the Everyman's Library edition of The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. (Order direct from Everyman's Library, Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com) From the Publisher: Here is the most important autobiography from Renaissance Italy and one of the most spirited and colorful from any time or place, in a translation widely recognized as the most faithful to the energy and spirit of the original. Benvenuto Cellini was both a beloved artist in sixteenth-century Florence and a passionate and temperamental man of action who was capable of brawling, theft, and murder. He counted popes, cardinals, kings, and dukes among his patrons and was the adoring friend of—as he described them—the “divine” Michelangelo and the “marvelous” Titian, but was as well known for his violent feuds. At age twenty-seven he helped defend the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, and his account of his imprisonment there (under a mad castellan who thought he was a bat), his escape, recapture, and confinement in “a cell of tarantulas and venomous worms” is an adventure equal to any other in fact or fiction. But it is only one in a long life lived on a grand scale. Cellini’s autobiography is not merely the record of an extraordinary life but also a dramatic and evocative account of daily life in Renaissance Italy, from its lowest taverns to its highest royal courts.

Fenton on Kingsley Amis

'Kingsley Amis: Against Fakery.' In The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and Their Contemporaries. Ed. Zachary Leader. Oxford University Press, 2009. 106-122. (Order from OUP in the UK, US, or Canada) From the Publisher: The Movement Reconsidered, a collection of original essays by distinguished poets, critics, and scholars from Britain and America, sets out to show not only that relations between Movement and other post-war British writers were more complex and nuanced than is usually suggested, but that the role these relations played in shaping the current literary scene is important and complicated. Other topics it examines include the origins of the grouping; the role of mediating figures such as Auden, Empson, and Orwell; the part the writers themselves played in promoting the grouping; the interlocking network of academics, journalists, and editors who aided them; and analogous developments in other fields, notably philosophy, politics, and language. The book's ultimate aim is to encourage readers to come to Movement writing with fresh eyes and to gain a fairer sense of its range and power.

The Guardian		The New York Review of Books
James Fenton wrote a series of articles for The Guardian under the heading Things That Have Interested Me.		Fenton frequently writes for the NYRB. His most recent article is "How to Paint Like Titian" 56.3 (26 February 2009) [On Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret, an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art]. Visit their website for a list of articles ranging back to 1984.