biography
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Fenton, James (Martin)
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| lived:
| (1949– )
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| biography:
| Poet and essayist, born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, EC England, UK. Educated at Repton and Magdalen College, Oxford, his first collections of poems, Terminal Moraine (1972), won the Eric Gregory Award. He was war correspondent for the New Statesman, reporting most notably on the fall of Saigon. In 1983 he accompanied the writer Redmond O'Hanlon (1947– ) through Borneo. His main works of poetry include Partingtime Hall (together with John Fuller), The Memory of War (1982), Children in Exile: Poems 1968–83 (1984), and Out of Danger (1993). He became professor of poetry at Oxford in 1994. He has been compared to W H Auden for his playful yet intellectually rigorous verse. |
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