Volume 31, Number 16 · October 25, 1984
Making It New
By Seamus Heaney
Children in Exile: Poems 1968–1984
by James Fenton
Random House, 110 pp., $11.95
Last year the British division of Penguin Books issued James Fenton's poems as one of their 'King Penguins,' a part of their list usually reserved for current successful fiction. That they published the book under this heading and not as part of their poetry list—devoted, on the whole, to the poetry of the past, poetry in translation and in anthologies—was a distinct signal that Fenton was somebody worth special treatment. Children in Exile contains poems that have already appeared in previous smaller collections and has all the melody, the messages, and mischief of a poet hitting his stride.
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