The School on the Coast Road: new and selected poems
From the early syllabic sonnets to her latest work with its metrical speech rhythms, this poetry is often formally ahead of its time but consistently beautiful — and fiercely intelligent.
Come Down
Questions of humanity, of point of view, are at the heart of Fiona Sampson’s new collection, Come Down.
The Catch
Fiona Sampson’s latest collection transforms the sensory world into an astonishingly new and vivid poetry. Here, dream and myth, creatures real and imagined, and the sights and sounds of ‘distance and of home’ all coalesce in a sustained meditation on time and...
Coleshill
Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill. This haunting new collection from Fiona Sampson is a portrait of place, both real and imaginary; a dreamscape with its roots deep in the local soil.
Rough Music
‘Rough music’ is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This is a book full of disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore themes of violence, loss and belonging.