Скачать или смотреть Talking With Poets: Fiona Sampson and her new book Come Down

For The Poetry Channel Indran Amirthanayagam presents the grand Fiona Sampson. Fiona discusses Come Down (Corsair, 2020), Winner of The Wales Poetry Books of the Year Award 2021; Winner of the Naim Frashëri Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia; Winner of the European Lyric Atlas Prize

Fiona Sampson is a leading British poet, published in thirty-eight languages, who has received a number of international awards in the US, India and Europe. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, of the English Association and of the Wordsworth Trust, she’s published twenty-nine books and received an MBE for Services to Literature. Emeritus Professor of Poetry, University of Roehampton, she has served on the Council of the Royal Society of Literature and is a Trustee of the Royal Literary Fund. Other honours include the Newdigate Prize, Cholmondeley Prize, Hawthornden Fellowship, and numerous awards from the Arts Councils of England and of Wales, Society of Authors, Poetry Book Society and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as well as various national Book of the Year selections. She recently received three major European prizes: Naim Frashëri Laureateship (Albania and Macedonia, 2019), European Lyric Atlas Prize, Serbia (2020) and, for Come Down, Wales Poetry Book of the Year (2021). She’s also a broadcaster and newspaper critic, librettist and literary translator, and was editor of Poetry Review 2005-12. Her internationally acclaimed biographies are In Search of Mary Shelley (2018), shortlisted for the Biographers’ Club Slightly Foxed Prize, and Two-Way Mirror: The life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2021).