Oddly ignored fondness for poetry (4)
I believe the answer is:
odes
'poetry' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'oddly ignored fondness' is the wordplay.
'oddly ignored' means one should take alternating letters.
The alternating letters of 'fondness' are 'ODES'.
'for' is the link.
(Other definitions for odes that I've seen before include "Keats was fond of them" , "Works by Pindar" , "poetry" , "To a Skylark, To a Nightingale etc" , "verse" .)