Summary
Crystalline poems of beauty and risk, from T.S. Eliot and Forward Prize shortlisted poet, Fiona Sampson.
Fiona Sampson’s 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.
Combining formal sophistication with metaphysical exploration, this is an incandescent work of renewal, beauty and risk.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784740658 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784740659 |
| Author: | Fiona Sampson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Chatto & Windus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 94g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 5mm |
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Critics Review
You go to Fiona Sampson for intensity, and The Catch doesn’t disappoint.
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 *
Full of originality and spirit, these poems are beautifully made and a joy to read – W.S. Merwin
About The Author
Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson MBE FRSL is a leading British poet, writer, and Romanticist. She is Professor Emerita of Poetry at the University of Roehampton and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford.
Sampson 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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