in his writing by musical theatre, as evidenced in "Here Come the Drum Majorettes" from Out of Danger: "Gleb meet Glubb. Glubb meet Glob. God that's glum, that glib Glob dig. 'Dig that bog!' 'Frag that frog.' Stap that chap, he snuck that cig.'" He was the original English librettist for the musical of Les Misérables but Cameron Mackintosh, finding his lyrics uninvolving, replaced him with Herbert Kretzmer; Kretzmer credited Fenton with creating the general structure of the adaptation. He nonetheless received credit for "additional lyrics" and considerable royalties. Awards and honours Books 1968: Our Western Furniture, poetry 1969: Put Thou Thy Tears into My Bottle, poetry 1972: Terminal Moraine 1978: A Vacant Possession, TNR Publications 1980: A German Requiem: A Poem, Salamander Press, a pamphlet 1981: Dead Soldiers, Sycamore Press 1982: The Memory of War: Poems 1968–1982, Salamander Press, 1982, 1984: Children in Exile: Poems 1968–1984 Random House, 1984, These poems combined with those from The Memory of War made up the Penguin volume, The Memory of War and Children in Exile; published in the United States as Children in Exile; Salamander Press 1983: You Were Marvellous, selected theatre reviews published 1979–1981 1986: The Snap Revolution 1987: Partingtime Hall, co-author with John Fuller, Viking / Salamander Press, comical poems 1988: All the Wrong Places: Adrift in the Politics of the Pacific Rim, reportage; Viking; Atlantic Monthly Press (1988); reissued with a new introduction by Granta (2005) 1989: Manila Envelope, self-published book of poems 1994: Out of Danger, Fenton considers this his second collection of poems. It contains Manila Envelope and later poems; Penguin; Farrar Straus Giroux; winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry 1998: Leonardo's Nephew, art essays from The New York Review of Books 2001: The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures, Oxford University Press, 2001, 2001: A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed Viking / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002: (As editor) An introduction to English poetry, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002, 2003: The Love Bomb, verse written as a libretto for a composer who rejected it; Penguin / Faber and Faber 2006: School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts (2006), a history 2006: Selected Poems, Penguin 2006: (As editor) The New Faber Book of Love Poems 2012: Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968–2011 2012: The Orphan of Zhao, adaptation of the classic Chinese play for the Royal Shakespeare Company See also References Sources Gioia,