Participants: Fiona Sampson

(Photo: Kitty Sullivan)

Fiona Sampson was first a concert violinist, then studied at the Universities of Oxford, where she won the Newdigate Prize, and Nijmegen, where she received a PhD in the philosophy of language. This research arose from her pioneering residencies in health care. She has published seventeen books, most recently Rough Music (shortlisted in 2010 for the Forward Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize), Poetry Writing (2009) and A Century of Poetry Review (PBS Special Commendation, 2009), with ten in translation. She has been awarded the Newdigate Prize, been short-listed for Forward single-poem and the T. S. Eliot prize, received a Cholmondeley Award and is an FRSL. Forthcoming in spring 2011 are Music Lessons: the Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, and Percy Bysshe Shelley in the Faber poet-to-poet series. She is the editor of Poetry Review, the UK’s oldest and most influential poetry journal, and contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Independent and the TLS.

Listen to Fiona Sampson read at the Poetry Archive: www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive...poetId=10247

StAnza 2011 Events:

Thu 17 March | Poetry Centre Stage
Reading: Fiona Sampson and Yang Lian with his translator, Brian Holton
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium

Fri 18 March | Poetry Café for Breakfast: The Authorised Version
Fiona Sampson, Diana Hendry, David Brown and Katherine R. Cooper discuss the poetry of the King James Authorised Bible
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre


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	Festival 2011 Information Events Participants Afterword Photo Gallery Virtual Festival Cyber Slam 2010 Archives Past Programmes Past Participants Past Virtual StAnza 2012 StAnza 2011 StAnza 2010 StAnza 2009 StAnza 2008 StAnza 2007 StAnza 2006 StAnza 2005	Participants: Fiona Sampson (Photo: Kitty Sullivan) Fiona Sampson was first a concert violinist, then studied at the Universities of Oxford, where she won the Newdigate Prize, and Nijmegen, where she received a PhD in the philosophy of language. This research arose from her pioneering residencies in health care. She has published seventeen books, most recently Rough Music (shortlisted in 2010 for the Forward Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize), Poetry Writing (2009) and A Century of Poetry Review (PBS Special Commendation, 2009), with ten in translation. She has been awarded the Newdigate Prize, been short-listed for Forward single-poem and the T. S. Eliot prize, received a Cholmondeley Award and is an FRSL. Forthcoming in spring 2011 are Music Lessons: the Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, and Percy Bysshe Shelley in the Faber poet-to-poet series. She is the editor of Poetry Review, the UK’s oldest and most influential poetry journal, and contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Independent and the TLS. Listen to Fiona Sampson read at the Poetry Archive: www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive...poetId=10247 StAnza 2011 Events: Thu 17 March \| Poetry Centre Stage Reading: Fiona Sampson and Yang Lian with his translator, Brian Holton The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium Fri 18 March \| Poetry Café for Breakfast: The Authorised Version Fiona Sampson, Diana Hendry, David Brown and Katherine R. Cooper discuss the poetry of the King James Authorised Bible The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre Back to top