Fiona Sampson

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.

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...

Dan Chiasson found it a little slapstick, as one after another shooting-gallery Greek popped up after aeons of obscurity, only to die a second time, walloped by Oswald's powerful style. Fiona Sampson judged the...

Fiona Sampson judged that this poem's layout was innovative without being tricksy. The whole collection, she wrote, ebbs and flows, with free verse . . . tightly controlled, so that the breath-phrase from which it...

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...

Tithonus is printed on the right-hand side only of each page, which is divided by a vertical line (composed of five-dot groups) from a left-hand side which is mostly empty except for an occasional note...

Fiona Sampson wrote that this narrative of sexual betrayal and jealousy . . . by turns seduced and shocked conservative British poetry audiences.

The year after this EF spoke to Fiona Sampson about her experience of making poems, for a piece in Mxlexia.

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...