Out of Danger

"[Fenton's] poems are so direct, so entertaining, even so artless (in their artful ways) that he has few of the problems that tie the hands and feet of poets more self-conscious. His poems are so raw he seems almost real...Mr. Fenton's earlier work was written under the shadow of Auden, but his recent poems owe much more to Kipling and the music hall. Their jungly rhythms, bald effects and fondness for repetition have not always been roughened against a political coercion or verse collusion (some of the poems were produced as a 'pocket musical' in Paris). Even when he goes wrong, however, as he does in many of these sidewalk performances, he does so with elan."Fenton, James is the author of 'Out of Danger' with ISBN 9780374524371 and ISBN 0374524378.