Sampson, Fiona. “Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock — review”. The Guardian, p. Review 19.
Fiona Sampson
Standard Name: Sampson, Fiona
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Fleur Adcock | Fiona Sampson
, reviewing this book, praised Adcock's limpid, apparently artless style and the precise emotional intelligence of her observations. She saw Adcock as a truly Kiwi poet and also a serious presence in British literature. |
| Literary responses | Selima Hill | Reviewer Fiona Sampson
called SH[a]rguably the most distinctive truth teller to emerge in British poetry, remarked that her originality had sometimes scared off critical scrutineers, and praised her flamboyance and exuberance, enjoying the fact... |
| Literary responses | Jo Shapcott | John Kinsella
's initial review called JS
as a great satirist and a virtuoso in meaning and verse movement, one who is doing no less than rewriting the English poetic canon—challenging sources, verse structure and... |
| Reception | Anne Carson | Fiona Sampson
wrote that this narrative of sexual betrayal and jealousy . . . by turns seduced and shocked conservative British poetry audiences. Sampson, Fiona. “Symphony of sighs”. theguardian.com. |
| Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | The year after this EF
spoke to Fiona Sampson
about her experience of making poems, for a piece in Mxlexia. |
| Textual Production | Jackie Kay | Contributing along with Gillian Clarke
, Carol Ann Duffy
, Jo Shapcott
, Fiona Sampson
, and many others, to a collection of poetic responses to Shakespeare
four hundred years after his death, JK
replied... |
Timeline
April 2005
The poet Fiona Sampson
took up the position of editor of Poetry Review (published by the Poetry Society
)—the first woman to hold this post since Muriel Spark
more than forty years before.