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Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1984
by
James Fenton
Fenton's work is elegant, highly finished, reticent, witty. Disturbing and deeply affecting, Children in Exile remains an exhilarating and memorable performance.
Paperback, 120 pages
Published
July 1st 1994
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Worth it for his poem (in limerick) about poet-suicides.
An all-time favourite. Evocative poems about everything from Pol Pot to a dusty ethnographic museum in Oxford.
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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 ...more
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