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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 was published in February 2006 by Penguin
and in October 2006 by Farrar, Straus
and Giroux. He also recently edited The
New Faber Book of Love Poems.
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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 in response to a question from the National
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