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James Fenton
B. 1949
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…
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Don’t talk to me of love. I’ve had an earful And I get tearful when I’ve downed a drink or two. I’m one of your talking wounded. I’m a hostage….
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This is the wind, the wind in a field of corn. Great crowds are fleeing from a major disaster Down the long valleys, the green swaying wadis, Down through the…
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1 Stone cries to stone, Heart to heart, heart to stone, And the interrogation will not die For there is no eternal city And there is no pity And…
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Listen to what they did. Don’t listen to what they said. What was written in blood Has been set up in lead. Lead tears the heart. Lead tears the brain….
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Edward Thomas
B. 1878 D. 1917
…revealed that Thomas was actually “shot clean through the chest”. As well as a choice reading of Thomas’s poems made by the contemporary poets James Fenton and Andrew Motion, the…
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Nights of 1964-1966: The Old Reliable - Marilyn Hacker
for Lewis Ellingham The laughing soldiers fought to their defeat… James Fenton, ‘In a Notebook’ White decorators interested in Art, Black file clerks with theatrical ambitions, kids making pharmaceutical…
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Jim Carruth
B. 1963
…and the James McCash Poetry Prize, while his verse novel, Killochries (Freight Books, 2015) was shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize, the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize and the…
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Jonathan Edwards
B. 1979
…Book of the Year People’s Choice Award; it was also shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. The warm reception of his work makes it tempting to speculate that…