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From reviews of Common Prayer: Urgent, acrobatically alert poems alternate with the comparative stillness of a series of love sonnets. Here, too, the imagination is always at work, demonstrating that curiosity is a form of passion. --- Sean O'Brien, The Sunday Times
That she is also a very fine poet indeed seems almost impertinent of her, but that is what she is - Sampson's free verse soon surprises by its seductive ease and its vivid rendition of he ordinary, material world. This perfect equilibrium between the numinous and the touchable is typical of Sampson's achievement. --- Adam Thorpe, the Guardian
Fiona Sampson burst onto the literary landscape as the brilliant young editor of Poetry Review a couple of years ago. In Common Prayer, her subject is darkness of many kinds, erotic or lonely, histories of Eastern Europe, abandonment. She finds a subtle suggestion of sexual gesture in unexpected places. - --Elaine Feinstein, The Times
--Elaine Feinstein, The Times
That she is also a very fine poet indeed seems almost impertinent of her, but that is what she is - Sampson's free verse soon surprises by its seductive ease and its vivid rendition of he ordinary, material world. This perfect equilibrium between the numinous and the touchable is typical of Sampson's achievement. --- Adam Thorpe, the Guardian
Fiona Sampson burst onto the literary landscape as the brilliant young editor of Poetry Review a couple of years ago. In Common Prayer, her subject is darkness of many kinds, erotic or lonely, histories of Eastern Europe, abandonment. She finds a subtle suggestion of sexual gesture in unexpected places. --- Elaine Feinstein, The Times
That she is also a very fine poet indeed seems almost impertinent of her, but that is what she is - Sampson's free verse soon surprises by its seductive ease and its vivid rendition of he ordinary, material world. This perfect equilibrium between the numinous and the touchable is typical of Sampson's achievement. --- Adam Thorpe, the Guardian
Fiona Sampson burst onto the literary landscape as the brilliant young editor of Poetry Review a couple of years ago. In Common Prayer, her subject is darkness of many kinds, erotic or lonely, histories of Eastern Europe, abandonment. She finds a subtle suggestion of sexual gesture in unexpected places. - --Elaine Feinstein, The Times
--Elaine Feinstein, The Times
That she is also a very fine poet indeed seems almost impertinent of her, but that is what she is - Sampson's free verse soon surprises by its seductive ease and its vivid rendition of he ordinary, material world. This perfect equilibrium between the numinous and the touchable is typical of Sampson's achievement. --- Adam Thorpe, the Guardian
Fiona Sampson burst onto the literary landscape as the brilliant young editor of Poetry Review a couple of years ago. In Common Prayer, her subject is darkness of many kinds, erotic or lonely, histories of Eastern Europe, abandonment. She finds a subtle suggestion of sexual gesture in unexpected places. --- Elaine Feinstein, The Times
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'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. Fiona Sampson's characteristic lyric intensity deftly fuses metaphysics and politics with the vernacular of daily life.
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but it has its moments! A collection where you can go several pages without finding something to make you stop or think, then one poem where there is such beauty and wonderfully-crafted rhythms that it begs to be read aloud over and over! Through tightly crafted stanzas, Sampson weaves nostalgia and sorrow. It is worth reading the 'nothing special' poems to get to the grit - the real, worthwhile, honest and original poems that remind me why I have returned to this collection again and again.
I would not recommend this as the read of the year - Burnside is that - but a must for fans of Sampson and her lyrical, if inconstant, magic.
I would not recommend this as the read of the year - Burnside is that - but a must for fans of Sampson and her lyrical, if inconstant, magic.
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