Fiona Sampson's second full length book of poems is as varied and
well crafted as any that will be published this year. Her intellect
and humanity are underlain by a compelling poetic talent. Surviving
a murder attempt generates the clarity, compression and pure
celebratory drive of the book's title sequence of fourteen syllabic
sonnets. It forms the spinal cord of the entire collection, from
which nerve endings reach out into a dizzying range of poetic
matter, while retaining the book's essential cohrerence and
integrity, and what maura Dooley calls "Sampson's incisive,
inquisitive, painterly eye". Fiona sampson's poems explore modes of
perception and constanly query our view of reality. They charrt a
keen and complicated response to experience. Included here is the
long poem, the multi-part 'Green Thought', winner of the Newdigate
Prize. Typically its themes and variations are multiple, from love
to the beauty of a Welsh woodland, from the joy of unadulterated
desire to the suspect implications of irradiated fields.
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