Fiona Sampson

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Fiona Sampson
MBE
Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson
OccupationPoet and writer
NationalityBritish
Alma materRoyal Academy of Music; University of Oxford, University of Nijmegen
Periodcontemporary

Fiona Ruth Sampson, Born 1963

FRSL[1] is a British poet, writer, editor, translator and academic who was the first woman editor of Poetry Review
since Muriel Spark. She received a MBE for services to literature in 2017.

Education

Sampson was educated at the

Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate Prize.[2] She gained a PhD in the philosophy of language from Radboud University Nijmegen
in the Netherlands.

Career

Sampson is currently Emeritus Professor of the University of Roehampton and a trustee of the Royal Literary Fund. She lives in Herefordshire

Poetry

Sampson has been publishing poetry since 1996 and some of her earlier work is held at The

Forward Prize. Her later poetry collections include Common Prayer (2007); shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Rough Music (2010)[4] shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize, and Forward Poetry Prize, and Coleshill (2013).[6] Her eighth collection, Come Down (2019) was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year (Poetry).[7]

From 2005 to 2012, Sampson was the editor of Poetry Review, the oldest and most widely read poetry journal in the UK.[8] She was the first woman editor of the journal since Muriel Spark (1947–49). During this time she published a critical anthology A Century of Poetry Review (Carcanet, 2009), a writing manual Poetry Writing: The Expert Guide (2009), a volume of lectures, Music Lessons, and Beyond the Lyric: a map of contemporary British poetry (Penguin Random House, 2012), a study of the poetry mainstream in the late 20th Century.[9]

In 2013 Sampson became Professor of Poetry at the University of Roehampton and the Director of the Roehampton Poetry Centre.[5] She created the Roehampton Prize for Poetry[10] and chaired the judges in 2015 and 2017. Here she founded[5] Poem,[11] a quarterly international review. 19 issues were published between 2013-2018. The centre along with Roehampton's Creative Writing program was closed in 2022.[12]

Literary Criticism and Biography

Sampson is interested in the Romantics. Her

Faber Poet to Poet edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley was published in 2012. Starlight Wood: Walking Back to the Romantic Countryside, [13] a collection of 'Romantic' walks was published by Corsair in 2022. In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein.[14][15] was a finalist for the Biographers' Club Slightly Foxed prize.[16] This was followed by Two-Way Mirror: The life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2021) [17] which was longlisted for the Biographers International Organisation Plutarch Prize 2021,[18]

Other

Sampson has been a judge for the

T.S. Eliot Prize, and the 2016 Ondaatje Prize. From 2013 to 2016 she was a judge for the Society of Authors' Cholmondeley Awards.She chaired the 2015 and 2016 European Lyric Atlas Prize[19]
(in Bosnia).

Sampson is a former musician and has worked with composers, including commissions with Sally Beamish,[20] Stephen Goss[21] and Philip Grange. In 2016 she published a study of musical forms and poetry, Lyric Cousins: Music l Form in Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).[22]

Sampson has published scholarly works and works for general readers on the subject of writing and health care (below).

As a journalist, Sampson has reviewed for the

Tablet magazines
.

Awards and honours

Sampson has received the

MBE
for services to literature in 2017.

Selected bibliography

WORDS FOR MUSIC:

References

  1. ^ "New Year's Honours list 2017" (PDF). Gov.uk. Government Digital Service. 30 December 2016. p. 82. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  2. ^ "British Council Biog". contemporarywriters.com. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Fiona Sampson's workshop". The Guardian. London. 2 July 2007. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  4. ^
    ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  5. ^ a b c "The strength of Fiona Sampson". The Independent. 9 March 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  6. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  7. ^ "Wales Book of the Year 2021 Shortlist". Literature Wales.
  8. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  9. ^ "Beyond the Lyric: A Map of Contemporary British Poetry". The Independent. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  10. ^ "The Roehampton Poetry Centre at the University of Roehampton is delighted to announce the winner of the fifth annual Roehampton Poetry Prize". Roehampton University. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  11. ^ Sampson, Fiona. "Taylor and Francis online". Poem: International English Language Quarterly Journal.
  12. ISSN 0140-0460
    . Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  13. ^ Nicolson, Adam (25 August 2022). "In the footsteps of the Romantic poets". The Spectator. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  14. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  15. ^ Cooke, Rachel (7 January 2018). "In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein review – a life after deaths". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  16. ^ Foxed, Slightly (May 2018). "Bart van Es wins The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for The Cut Out Girl".
  17. ISSN 0140-0460
    . Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  18. ^ "2021 Plutarch Award Longlist". Biographers International Organization. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  19. ^ Mitrić, Milanka (1 November 2018). ""Evropski atlas lirike" Čarlsu Simiću". Glas Srpske (in Serbian). Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  20. ^ "On This Shining Night - British Music Society". 24 June 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  21. ^ "Rough Music University of Sussex". openresearch.surrey.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  22. ^ Balmer, Josephine (27 February 2017). "A muse is for sharing: Fiona Sampson's Lyric Cousins". New Statesman. Retrieved 9 March 2024.

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