Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011
James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen  College, Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has  worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war  correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a Fellow of  the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry for  the period 1994-99. In 2007, James Fenton was awarded the Queen's Gold  Medal for Poetry.