The Catch by Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampsons latest collection transforms the sensory world into an astonishingly new and vivid poetry. Here, dream and myth, creatures real and imagined, and the sights and sounds of distance and of home all coalesce in a sustained meditation on time and belonging.
You go to Fiona Sampson for intensity, and The Catch doesn’t disappoint-- Suzi Feay * Independent on Sunday *
[Sampson] has an intense relationship with nature, communicated in delicate observations. -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *
A complex economy of lived feeling… She can also render complexity of feeling with the economy that marks a poet of a high order… That rich plainness is enviable -- Sean O'Brien * Independent *
Sampson’s verse feels alive. -- Leaf Arbuthnot * Times Literary Supplement *
The Catch seems above all to be a narrative of mystical experience; free of God and dogma, but deeply aware of history and ecology, it may be among the pioneers of a newly emergent 21st-century incarnation of sacred poetry -- Carol Rumens * Guardian *
[Sampson] has an intense relationship with nature, communicated in delicate observations. -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *
A complex economy of lived feeling… She can also render complexity of feeling with the economy that marks a poet of a high order… That rich plainness is enviable -- Sean O'Brien * Independent *
Sampson’s verse feels alive. -- Leaf Arbuthnot * Times Literary Supplement *
The Catch seems above all to be a narrative of mystical experience; free of God and dogma, but deeply aware of history and ecology, it may be among the pioneers of a newly emergent 21st-century incarnation of sacred poetry -- Carol Rumens * Guardian *
Fiona Sampson MBE FRSL is a leading British poet, writer, and Romanticist. Professor Emerita of Poetry at the University of Roehampton and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, she has received numerous national and international literary awards, and her work has been published in thirty-eight languages.
Becoming George completes a trilogy of acclaimed biographies. In Search of Mary Shelley was an Observer, Independent, Financial Times, and Times Book of the Year. Two-Way Mirror was a Washington Post Book of the Year, a New York Times bestseller, and a finalist for the Plutarch Prize and the US PEN’s Jacqueline Bograd Weld International Award for Biography.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784740658 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784740659 |
| Title | The Catch |
| Author | Fiona Sampson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2016-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
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