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James Fenton Reading From His Poems
| Author |
James Fenton |
| Price |
£12.99 <convert> |
| Biblio |
1905556578;
pp. 0 |
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| Binding |
CD |
| Published |
January 2009 |
| Publisher |
The Poetry Archive |
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| Hear this poet read at the Poetry Archive website |
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| James Fenton (b. 1949) grew up in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire and was educated at Repton and Magdalen College, Oxford where he won the prestigious Newdigate Prize for his sonnet sequence 'Our Western Furniture'. This early poem about the cultural collision between 19th century America and Japan contains in embryo many of the characteristics that define his later work; technical mastery, wide-ranging intellectual interests and a concern for foreign cultures and the problems of Western interaction with them. His first collection, Terminal Moraine (1972), was well received and won a Gregory Award. He used the money to travel to the Far East where he witnessed the aftermath of America's withdrawal from Vietnam and the collapse of the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia which presaged the rise of Pol Pot. In 1976 Fenton returned to London and became political correspondent for The New Statesman. The Memory of War (1982), drawing on his experience in the Far East, secured his reputation as one of the finest poets of his generation. He won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1984 for Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1984 and in 1994 Fenton became Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
Track listing and individual poem timings
1 For Andrew Wood 1.30
2 Wind 1.09
3 Out of the East 5.26
4 Children in Exile 12.17
5 Blood and Lead 0.40
6 Jerusalem 3.33
7 The Milkfish Gatherers 4.16
8 The Ballad of the Shrieking Man 4.56
9 Cut-Throat Christ 4.56
10 The Mistake 1.25
11 Out of Danger 1.00
12 The Skip 3.32
13 In Paris with You 1.29
14 I'll Explain 0.55
15 The Possibility 0.59
16 Hinterhof 0.52
17 Here Come the Drum Majorettes! 3.26
18 Yellow Tulips 1.46
Total length of the recording 54.00
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