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Fiona Sampson

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Fiona Sampson

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1963 (London)
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
London → West Country

Career

Occupations
Poet, Writer, Literary biographer, Writer on ecology, Editor, Translator, Scholar
Active Years
1996-
Affiliations
Harris Manchester College, Oxford, University of Roehampton
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Fellow of the English Association, Wordsworth Trust
Nominations
T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist (Common Prayer), T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist (Rough Music), Forward Prize shortlist (Trumpeldor Beach)

Education

Royal Academy of Music
Music
Country: United Kingdom
University of Oxford
Country: United Kingdom
Newdigate Prize
Radboud University Nijmegen
Philosophy of language
Degree: PhD
Country: Netherlands
PhD in philosophy of language

Awards

Newdigate Prize
Organization: University of Oxford
Result: 受賞
Cholmondeley Award
Organization: Society of Authors
Result: 受賞
MBE
2017
Organization: UK Government
Result: services to literature
Wales Book of the Year (poetry section)
2020
Work: Come Down
Category: poetry
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Folding the Real

2001 Poetry

Her first full collection of poetry.

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Common Prayer

2007 Poetry

Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

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Rough Music

2010 Poetry

Shortlisted for T. S. Eliot Prize and Forward Poetry Prize.

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Coleshill

2013 Poetry

Poetry collection.

Come Down

2019 Poetry

Won Wales Book of the Year poetry section.

Bibliography

  • Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside
  • Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Come Down
  • In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
  • Limestone Country
  • Lyric Cousins: Poetry & Musical Form
  • The Catch
  • Coleshill
  • Night Fugue: Selected Poems
  • Beyond the Lyric: A Map of Contemporary British Poetry
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Music Lessons: The Newcastle Poetry Lectures
  • Rough Music
  • A Century of Poetry Review
  • Common Prayer
  • On Listening: Selected Essays
  • The Distance Between Us
  • Folding the Real

Translations by Author

  • Works of Jaan Kaplinski
  • Works of Amir Or

Style & Themes

Literary Style
musical formsRomantic influences
Recurring Motifs
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Legacy

A leading contemporary British poet, editor, and biographer. Awarded MBE for services to literature, with numerous prizes, exploring links between poetry and music.