The School on the Coast Road

399.00

Author: Fiona Sampson
Published Date: 01/11/2023
ISBN: 978-93-92494-38-3
Pages: 128
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Fiona Sampson is a leading European poet, whose work has been translated into 36 languages and received many national and international awards. Known for her unique brand of metaphysical eco-poetry, she draws together philosophy, acutely-inhabited insights into the changing natural world, myth, and religion in verse whose forms and ideas are lightly handled but deeply resonant. 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.

There’s something of the chase in Fiona Sampson’s poetry — prophetic and incantatory — luring us into the deep, to explore that which is just out of sight, the ungraspable hidden ancient thrum. It is mud and constellation and breath, asking us to marvel at the light as though we were visitors in our own world, learning to walk toward ourselves. — TISHANI DOSHI

FIONA SAMPSON is a leading British poet and writer. Published in thirty-eight languages, she has published twenty-nine books. National honours include an MBE for services to literature, the Newdigate and Cholmondeley prizes, numerous awards from the Arts Councils of England and of Wales, Society of Authors, Poetry Book Society and Arts and Humanities Research Council, and Book of the Year selections. She has been a finalist multiple times for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, of the British Trust for Literary Romanticism, of the English Association and formerly of the Royal Society of Arts. Alongside international poetry prizes in the US, Bosnia, India, and North Macedonia, she recently received the 2019 Naim Frashëri Laureateship, the 2020 European Lyric Atlas Prize and, for Come Down, Wales Poetry Book of the Year 2021.

Her studies of writing process include Beyond the Lyric and Lyric Cousins: Poetry and Musical Form. She edited Percy Bysshe Shelley for the Faber Poet to Poet series, and her Limestone Country was a Guardian nature writing book of the year. A prolific critic, librettist, broadcaster and literary translator, from 2005-12 she edited Poetry Review, and she has served internationally on the boards of publishing houses and literary NGOs, on literary juries and on the Council of the Royal Society of Literature. She’s a Trustee of the Royal Literary Fund and Emeritus Professor of Poetry, University of Roehampton. Her internationally acclaimed In Search of Mary Shelley is followed by Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Washington Post Book of the Year, a finalist for the international 2022 Plutarch Prize and the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld international award for biography. She is at work on new biographies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and George Sand for Princeton University Press and W.W. Norton.