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Fiona Sampson is a poet, who has been shortlisted twice for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prizes. She has received a Cholmondeley Award, the Newdigate Prize, the Zlaten Prsten (Macedonia), Writer's Awards from the Arts Councils of England and of Wales, and from the Society of Authors, and is a Fellow and Council Member of the Royal Society of Literature. She works as a critic and editor, and contributes regularly to the Guardian, Irish Times, Sunday Times, Independent and the Times Literary Supplement. In 2017 she was awarded an MBE for services to Literature and the Literary Community.
Few are as well qualified to do this as Sampson… Sampson is a thorough and often persuasive close reader -- Tom Payne * Daily Telegraph * This lovely, hopeful book is a celebration of the richness and variety in British Poetry right now -- Lesley McDowell * Glasgow Herald * Vigorous and valuable...the best kind of guide: encouraging, enthusiastic, knowledgeable -- Alan Brownjohn * Spectator * This is an engaging, well-structured take on the poetry world, one that invites readers to read more, and to read carefully * Independent *
