By James Fenton

ISBN-10: 0571273823

ISBN-13: 9780571273829

ISBN-10: 0571273831

ISBN-13: 9780571273836

Winner of either the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers one of the most memorable lyric verse of the prior many years, from the formal ability that marked his debut, Terminal Moraine, to the dramatic and political monologues of The reminiscence of struggle and Children in Exile, via to the unforgettable love poems of Out of chance and his most up-to-date paintings: Poems is an important choice by means of, as Stephen Spender placed it, 'a extraordinary poet of technical virtuosity'.

Don't seek advice from me of affection. i have had an earful
And i am getting tearful while i have downed a drink or two.
I'm one in all your conversing wounded.
I'm a hostage. i am maroonded.
But i am in Paris with you.

From 'In Paris With You' through James Fenton

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