Career
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Writer. New Statesman, London, England, assistant literary editor, 1971, member of editorial staff, 1972-73, political columnist 1976-78; freelance journalist in Southeast Asia, 1973-75; Guardian (London), German correspondent, 1978-79; Sunday Times (London), theater critic, 1979-84; Times (London), chief literary critic, 1984-86; Independent, Far East correspondent, 1986-88; Sunday Independent, Arts Poetica columnist after 1990; Oxford University, Oxford, England, professor of poetry, 1994—.
