Fiona Sampson Livres

Focusing on the intersection of creative writing and health care, this comprehensive guide features insights from professionals in the field. It includes diverse case studies, highlighting experiences from working with pre-literate children in post-war Macedonia to individuals with dementia in Britain. The book serves as a valuable resource for teaching, counseling, and writing, emphasizing the therapeutic potential of creative expression in various health and social contexts.

The collection features a sequence of fourteen syllabic sonnets, inspired by a life-altering experience, which serve as the backbone of the work. This structure allows for a diverse exploration of poetic themes while maintaining coherence and depth. Fiona Sampson's keen observational skills and artistic vision are highlighted throughout, showcasing her extensive background in poetry and language. With numerous accolades and translations to her credit, Sampson's expertise enriches the collection, offering readers a profound and multifaceted poetic experience.

Meditations on the actuality of sickness and bereavement move outward through narratives of the broken body of Europe's violent twentieth century. This work offers a liturgy for a world in crisis.

Written by the editor of Poetry Review Includes listings and practical exercises Includes motivational techniques and examples

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.

'Rough music' is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This book features disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore themes of violence, loss and belonging.

Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill. a dreamscape with its roots deep in the local soil. Eliot and Forward Prize shortlisted poet comes a deep, interrogative collection of astonishing clarity and power.

The narrative delves into the complexities of psychology and sexuality against the backdrop of contemporary European identity. Centered on a love affair in turmoil, it traverses themes of loss, risk, and existential challenges. Through a blend of sensual and imagined experiences, the verse-novel questions the essence of intimacy and identity, pushing the boundaries of conventional meaning in poetry.

British poetry is enjoying a period of exceptional richness and variety. This is a book of enthusiasms: an intelligent and witty map of contemporary British poetry and a radical, accessible guide to living British poets, grouped for the first time according to the kind of poetry they write.

Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain and Europe, as she coped with debt, infidelity and the deaths of three children, before early widowhood changed her life forever. Most astonishingly, it was while she was still a teenager that Mary composed her canonical novel Frankenstein, creating two of our most enduring archetypes today. The life story is well-known. But who was the woman who lived it? She's left plenty of evidence, and in this fascinating dialogue with the past, Fiona Sampson sifts through letters, diaries and records to find the real woman behind the story. She uncovers a complex, generous character - friend, intellectual, lover and mother - trying to fulfil her own passionate commitment to writing at a time when to be a woman writer was an extraordinary and costly anomaly.