Come Down by Fiona Sampson
Come Down is a bravura new collection from eminent UK poet, Fiona Sampson. Her publications include twenty-nine volumes of poetry, criticism and philosophy of language. Sampson has been shortlisted twice for both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prizes.-
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
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Two-Way Mirror
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Poetry Writing: the Expert Guide
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Starlight Wood
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Limestone Country
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The Catch
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Music Lessons
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Coleshill
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Rough Music
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Century of Poetry Review
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Poetry Review
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Identity
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The Distance Between Us
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Beyond the Lyric
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Common Prayer
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Becoming George
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Lyric Cousins
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On Listening
Fiona Sampson's voice is something new and it's a delight to hear it. . A joy to read -- W. S. Merwin
A very fine poet indeed . . . This perfect equilibrium between the numinous and the touchable is typical of Sampson's achievement * Guardian *
The imagination is always at work; demonstrating that curiosity is a form of passion * The Sunday Times *
I am amazed at Fiona Sampson's ability to be metaphysical and visceral at once - to be savagely tender even, at times. Her image-making is entirely original, as is her diction; and she can elevate the ordinary and settle the elevated -- John Kinsella
Fiona Sampson's Come Down places particular responsibility on the reader as a co-creator, the added medium needed to lend shape to her art. It is a welcome burden . . . We are therefore deeply invested and immersed, as Sampson points to eras and memories, moments of creation and preludes to extinction . . . Come Down is a rich travelogue through layers of experience. * Financial Times *
Sensual, sharply intelligent, searching; these poems live on their own terms, in their own appointed ground . . . deeply musical, intellectually engaged and, most importantly, in love, not only with language, but also with the world we seek day by day
The most generous thing the poet can do is to give us vivid, piercing memories that become our experience . . . Here, dangerously and marvellously, [Fiona Sampson] comes close to revealing herself as a symbol
The passion surfaces in an elegiac, metaphysical flux . . . [Fiona Sampson] takes things apart, deconstructs them to set free the music inside
Numinous musicality remains a hallmark of Fiona Sampson's poetry. Come Down traces the meeting points of our fleeting human lives and the shifting timelessness of the world that surrounds us . . . But Come Down also faces up to precise human hurt [. . .] exploring place, memory and the chasms of history -- Ben Wilkinson * Guardian *
A very fine poet indeed . . . This perfect equilibrium between the numinous and the touchable is typical of Sampson's achievement * Guardian *
The imagination is always at work; demonstrating that curiosity is a form of passion * The Sunday Times *
I am amazed at Fiona Sampson's ability to be metaphysical and visceral at once - to be savagely tender even, at times. Her image-making is entirely original, as is her diction; and she can elevate the ordinary and settle the elevated -- John Kinsella
Fiona Sampson's Come Down places particular responsibility on the reader as a co-creator, the added medium needed to lend shape to her art. It is a welcome burden . . . We are therefore deeply invested and immersed, as Sampson points to eras and memories, moments of creation and preludes to extinction . . . Come Down is a rich travelogue through layers of experience. * Financial Times *
Sensual, sharply intelligent, searching; these poems live on their own terms, in their own appointed ground . . . deeply musical, intellectually engaged and, most importantly, in love, not only with language, but also with the world we seek day by day
The most generous thing the poet can do is to give us vivid, piercing memories that become our experience . . . Here, dangerously and marvellously, [Fiona Sampson] comes close to revealing herself as a symbol
The passion surfaces in an elegiac, metaphysical flux . . . [Fiona Sampson] takes things apart, deconstructs them to set free the music inside
Numinous musicality remains a hallmark of Fiona Sampson's poetry. Come Down traces the meeting points of our fleeting human lives and the shifting timelessness of the world that surrounds us . . . But Come Down also faces up to precise human hurt [. . .] exploring place, memory and the chasms of history -- Ben Wilkinson * Guardian *
Professor Fiona Sampson MBE FRSL is a leading British poet published in thirty-eight languages. Come Down (2020) was awarded the Naim Frashëri Laureateship, the European Lyric Atlas Prize and Wales Poetry Book of the Year. A biographer and critic, librettist and literary translator, her In Search of Mary Shelley was internationally acclaimed, and Two-Way Mirror: The life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2021) was a New York Times Editors' Choice and Washington Post Book of the Year, a Sunday Times Paperback of the Year, and finalist for the Plutarch Prize and the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781472155160 |
| ISBN 10 | 1472155165 |
| Title | Come Down |
| Author | Fiona Sampson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2020-02-06 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Winner of Wales Book of the Year in Poetry category 2021 |
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