Come Down
Feb 2020 · Hachette UK
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WINNER OF THE WALES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021
Winner of the Naim Frashëri Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia
Winner of the European Lyric Atlas Prize
'Fiona Sampson's voice is something new and it's a delight to hear it . . . A joy to read' W. S. Merwin
Questions of humanity, of point of view, are at the heart of Fiona Sampson's new collection, Come Down.
Throughout, Sampson's poems shimmer between the human perspective and what is beyond - some larger, longer-term consciousness. Language runs and dances over the stuff of the human body and the material of the landscape. And yet, despite these radical perspective shifts, the collection keeps in sight, always, the human experience: the act of creation; the way in which childhood memory and family lore impinge on the present.
Come Down ends with a long, eponymous poem, which moves fluidly and brilliantly through different forms of memory.
Winner of the Naim Frashëri Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia
Winner of the European Lyric Atlas Prize
'Fiona Sampson's voice is something new and it's a delight to hear it . . . A joy to read' W. S. Merwin
Questions of humanity, of point of view, are at the heart of Fiona Sampson's new collection, Come Down.
Throughout, Sampson's poems shimmer between the human perspective and what is beyond - some larger, longer-term consciousness. Language runs and dances over the stuff of the human body and the material of the landscape. And yet, despite these radical perspective shifts, the collection keeps in sight, always, the human experience: the act of creation; the way in which childhood memory and family lore impinge on the present.
Come Down ends with a long, eponymous poem, which moves fluidly and brilliantly through different forms of memory.
About the author
Professor Fiona Sampson MBE FRSL is a leading British poet published in thirty-eight languages. Come Down (2020) was awarded the Naim Frashëri Laureateship, the European Lyric Atlas Prize and Wales Poetry Book of the Year. A biographer and critic, librettist and literary translator, her In Search of Mary Shelley was internationally acclaimed, and Two-Way Mirror: The life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2021) was a New York Times Editors' Choice and Washington Post Book of the Year, a Sunday Times Paperback of the Year, and finalist for the Plutarch Prize and the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.
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