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SUMMARY:Fiona Sampson
DESCRIPTION:Meeting update\n\nFiona Sampson     Tuesday 29th November 7
 .30pm at The village Cafe\n\nFiona Sampson gave the poetry reading on Tues
 day 29th November instead of Annie Fisher who was unfortunately unable to
  come due to health problems.  We hope Annie and Anthony will be able to 
 come on another occasion.\n\nWe were privileged to welcome Fiona Sampson 
 to East Coker and fortunate that she stepped in at such short notice enab
 ling the meeting to go ahead.\n\nProfessor Fiona Sampson MBE\, FRSL has p
 ublished twenty-nine books\, including seven collections of poetry. Her la
 test collection\, Come Down (2020)\, received the Wales Poetry Book of t
 he Year\; in the same year she was awarded the European Lyric Atlas Prize 
 and the Balkan Naim Frasheri Laureateship for her body of work. She has be
 en published in thirty-seven languages\, and received numerous other natio
 nal and international honours\, including the Newdigate and Cholmondeley p
 rizes\, multiple awards from the Arts Councils of England and of Wales\, t
 he Society of Authors\, the Poetry Books Society and Arts and Humanities R
 esearch Council\, numerous Book of the Year selections and several short-l
 istings for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes – plus further internation
 al prizes in the US\, Bosnia\, Northern Macedonia and India.\n\nHer studie
 s of writing process include Beyond the Lyric and Lyric Cousins: Poetry
  and Musical Form. She edited Percy Bysshe Shelley (Faber) and her Lime
 stone Country was a Guardian nature writing book of the year. A critic\
 , librettist and literary translator\, from 2005-12 she edited Poetry Rev
 iew\, and she’s served internationally on the boards of publishing house
 s and literary NGOs\, on literary juries and on the Council of the Royal S
 ociety of Literature. She’s a Trustee of the Royal Literary Fund and Eme
 ritus Professor of Poetry\, University of Roehampton.\n\nHer international
 ly acclaimed In Search of Mary Shelley is followed by Two-Way Mirror: T
 he life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning\, a New York Times Editors’ Choi
 ce and Washington Post Book of the Year\, a finalist for the internation
 al Plutarch Prize and for US PEN’s international biography award\, and c
 urrently a Times/Sunday Times paperback of the year. She is at work on a
  biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau for Princeton University Press.
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