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Encyclopedia > John Fuller (poet)
For other people named John Fuller, see Fuller (disambiguation).

John Fuller (born 1 January 1937) is an English poet and author. Son of Roy Fuller, onetime Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, John Fuller has since 1966 been a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. His many collections of poetry include Stones and Fires (1996) and the recent Now and for a Time (2002). His novel Flying to Nowhere (1983), a historical fantasy, won the Whitbread First Novel Award. He has also written collections of short stories and several books for children. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.


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Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Review: Now and for a Time by John Fuller (1124 words)
As for John Fuller, he could only be a bottle of port or claret at an Oxford high table.
Fuller is as uxorious a poet as they come: hiatuses in the couple's mutual understanding are overcome with such rapidity as to be hardly worth mentioning in the first place ("How easy, this ability / To lose whatever we possess / By ceasing to believe that we / Deserve such brilliant success").
Fuller's 1996 collection Stones and Fires stands out from the rest of his oeuvre for its very unwhimsical portrayal of grief at the death of his father, in poems like "The Garden", "Star-Gazing" and the marvellous "A Cuclshoc", and was rewarded with that year's Forward prize.
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