Fiona Sampson and Michael Symmons Roberts
A poetry reading
Location: Culture Lab, Newcastle University
Time/Date: 24th October 2013, 19:15
Fiona Sampson is a poet who has been shortlisted twice for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prizes. Coleshill (Chatto, 2013), Sampson’s haunting new collection is a portrait of place, both real and imaginary; a dreamscape with its roots deep in the local soil. These are slices of life and states of mind; poems of grief, fears and maledictions, but also of renewal, resurrections and the promise of spring.
‘A richly rewarding and thematically coherent work, written with an avid attention to light effects, atmosphere, and the natural world.’ Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday
Michael Symmons Roberts has published five collections of poetry, including Corpus, which won the 2004 Whitbread Poetry Award and was shortlisted for the Forward, T.S. Eliot and Griffin International Prizes. Michael Symmons Roberts’ sixth collection Drysalter takes its name from the ancient trade in powders, chemicals, salts and dyes, paints and cures. This is Roberts’ most expansive writing yet: mystical, philosophical, earthy and elegiac.
‘He displays an amazing talent for intimacy on paper – sometimes, it almost takes your breath away.’ Kate Kellaway, The Observer
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