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Sampson has published fifteen books, including works of poetry, volumes on the philosophy of language and on the writing process. Her poetry has been published and broadcast in more than thirty languages and her many translations include the work of Jaan Kaplinski. She contributes to The Guardian, The Irish Times The Independent, the Times Literary Supplement and the "Sunday Times". She advises internationally on creative writing in healthcare. She was the founder-director of Poetryfest - the Aberystwyth International Poetry Festival and the founding editor of Orient Express, a journal of contemporary writing from Europe. Sampson's work is held online, in text and audio, at The Poetry Archive.
Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson is an award-winning British poet. She was the editor of Poetry Review (2005-2012).
Life
Born in London, Sampson grew up in the West Country, on the west coast of Wales and in Gloucestershire. She was educated at the Royal Academy of Music, and following a brief career as a concert violinist, studied at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate Prize. She gained a PhD in the philosophy of language from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and currently lives in Coleshill, Oxfordshire.
Work
Sampson has published fifteen books, including works of poetry, volumes on the philosophy of language and on the writing process. Her poetry has been published and broadcast in more than thirty languages and her many translations include the work of Jaan Kaplinski. She contributes to The Guardian, The Irish Times The Independent, the Times Literary Supplement and the "Sunday Times". She advises internationally on creative writing in healthcare. She was the founder-director of Poetryfest - the Aberystwyth International Poetry Festival and the founding editor of Orient Express, a journal of contemporary writing from Europe. Sampson's work is held online, in text and audio, at The Poetry Archive.
Sampson was the editor of Poetry Review (2005-2012), the oldest and most widely-read poetry journal in the UK. She was the first woman editor of the journal since Muriel Spark (1947-9)
Her fifth full poetry collection was Rough Music (Carcanet, 2010), following A Century of Poetry Review (Carcanet, 2009), a PBS Special Commendation and Poetry Writing: The expert guide(Robert Hale, 2009). Her volume of Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, Music Lessons was published in June 2011 and her volume Percy Bysshe Shelley in the Faber and Faber Poet to Poetseries, in September 2011 (it was the PBS on-line Book Club Choice).
Sampson was a judge for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Awards and Honours
The poem "Trumpeldor Beach" was shortlisted for the 2006 Forward prize and her volume Common Prayer was shortlisted for the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize. She has won the Cholmondeley Award(2009), the 2003 Zlaten Prsten for international writing (Macedonian Foundation for Culture and Sciences), a Hawthornden Fellowship, the Newdigate Prize; and awards from the Arts Councils ofEngland and Wales and the Society of Authors. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[6] and was elected to the Council in 2011. Rough Music was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize 2010 for best collection.
Selected bibliography