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Resources:

The New Faber Book of Love Poems, editor
Selected Poems
Tamar’s Revenge, translation of Tirso de Molina
The Love Bomb: And Other Musical Pieces
An Introduction to English Poetry
The Strength of Poetry
A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed
Leonardo’s Nephew: Essays on Art and Artists
Penguin Modern Poets: 1, with Blake Morrison and Kit Wright
Out of Danger

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 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.
Faber and Faber will publish a collection of Fenton’s poems later in 2012.
From http://www.jamesfenton.com/

Awards
2007 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry
1984 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
1981 Southern Arts Literature Award for Poetry
1971 Eric Gregory Award

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