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One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

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One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

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About James Fenton

James Martin Fenton (born 25 April 1949) is an English poet, journalist and literary critic. He is a former Oxford Professor of Poetry.