An interrogative collection of astonishing power make up this haunting portrait of place, from the TS Eliot and Forward Prize shortlisted poet, Fiona Sampson
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.
Coleshill finds Fiona Sampson enduring a term of trial, its rural
setting made menacing by present threat, old terrors and the larger
unravelling of the environment
*Independent*
In this sumptuous collection, haunted by fear and a surefooted,
hard-won joy, Fiona Sampson celebrates that elusive and most
endangered thing: a meaningful sense of place. Reading Coleshill,
we are reminded of an essential community with the land, and with
all our good neighbours, animals and humans
*John Burnside*
These poems of place, often troublingly dark, are sui generis in
the way they use what's to hand to explore what's hidden. Fiona
Sampson's technical subtlety is everywhere in evidence and her
emotional range is startling. Coleshill is a book of rare power and
depth.
*David Harsent*
This is Sampson's poetic masterpiece, and a landmark book. She
creates intimacy of place through a chamber music of the natural
and made worlds, honed observations and epiphanic ‘instrusions’.
With its layering of history and presence, Coleshill is a major
contribution to the literature of the local.
*John Kinsella*
A richly rewarding and thematically coherent work, written with an
avid attention to light effects, atmosphere, and the natural
world.
*Independent on Sunday*
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