In Search Of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson

Some of Sampson's earlier work is held online, in text and audio, at The Poetry Archive. It followed A Century of Poetry Review (Carcanet, 2009), a PBS Special Commendation, Poetry Writing: The expert guide (Robert Hale, 2009), and Common Prayer (Carcanet, 2007). Sampson's fifth full poetry collection was Rough Music (Carcanet, 2010). She writes on and teaches literary translation. Her own translations include the work of Jaan Kaplinski and Amir Or. Sampson's work has appeared in thirty-eight languages and received a number of international awards, including the Zlaten Prsten, the Naim Frasheri Laureateship and the European Lyric Atlas Prize. Starlight Wood: Walking Back to the Romantic Countryside is published by Corsair September 1, 2022. She has a special interest in the Romantics, editing the Faber Poet to Poet edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and writing a psychological biography In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein. She is also a broadcaster and critic - she contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Independent, The Tablet, the Times Literary Supplement and the Sunday Times. Sampson has published twenty-nine books, including poetry, studies of the writing process, writing about place, and literary biography. She was one of the pioneers of writing in healthcare in the UK, and her early publications are about this work. She now lives in Somerset.Īs a young poet she was the founder-director of Poetryfest, the Aberystwyth International Poetry Festival, and the founding editor of Orient Express, a journal of contemporary writing from Europe. She gained a PhD in the philosophy of language from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Sampson was educated at the Royal Academy of Music, and following a brief career as a concert violinist, studied at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate Prize.

Notably, Sampson received a MBE for services to literature in 2017. She has received several prizes for her literary biographies and poetry. A former musician, Sampson has written on the links between music and poetry, and her work has been set to music by several composers. Number of national and international awards for her writing. She is published in thirty-seven languages and has received a

Royal Academy of Music University of Oxford, University of Nijmegenįiona Ruth Sampson, MBE FRSL is a British poet and writer.

In Search Of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson