Book description
Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire
and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill.
This haunting new collection from Fiona Sampson is a portrait of
place, both real and imaginary; a dreamscape with its roots deep in
the local soil.
The poems hum with an evocative music of their own: there are hymns
of the orchards, verses for walkers, songs for bees. 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.
Coleshill emerges as a "parish of sun / and shade"; its
darkness and light perfectly balanced. From the T. S. Eliot and
Forward Prize shortlisted poet comes a deep, interrogative collection
of astonishing clarity and power.
Fiona Sampson is a poet, who has been shortlisted twice for the T. S.
Eliot Prize and Forward Prizes. She has received a Cholmondeley Award,
the Newdigate Prize, the Zlaten Prsten (Macedonia), Writer's Awards from
the Arts Councils of England and of Wales, and from the Society of
Authors, and is a Fellow and Council Member of the Royal Society of
Literature. She is the editor of
Poem
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