James Fenton writes:

  Essentially this is my second collection of poems. It contains everything that was in the Manila Envelope (including the text of the manifesto) plus subsequent poems. This won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. -- JF

Reviews and Critical Discussions

Forbes, Peter. 'Out of Line.' New Statesman & Society 6.280 (26 November 1993): 41 (2 pgs.).

Imlah, Mick. 'Pocket Musicals.' Times Literary Supplement 4735 (31 December 1993): 21.

Parakrama, Arjuna. 'The Art of (W)riting Oneself Out of Danger.' Critical Quarterly 36.2 (Summer 1994): 111-14.

Stark, Ellen Kreger. 'An American's Confession: On Reading James Fenton's Out of Danger.' Critical Quarterly 36.2 (Summer 1994): 106-10.

Logan, William. 'Love, War and Leotards.' New York Times Book Review (31 July 1994): 18 (2 pgs.).

Mitchell, Adrian. 'No Holds Bard.' New Statesman & Society 7.316 (19 August 1994): 20 (2 pgs.).

Bogen, Don. 'Muses of History.' Nation 259.13 (24 October 1994): 464 (3 pgs.).

Ash, Timothy Garton. 'International Books of the Year.' Times Literary Supplement 4783 (2 December 1994): 10.

Moran, Joe. 'Out of the East: James Fenton and Contemporary History.' Literature & History 9.2 (October 2000): 53-68.

Allen, James Sloan. 'The Poetry of Life.' Sewanee Review 109.4 (Fall 2001): cxiv-cxvii.