A wittily presented map of contemporary British poetry which identifies the different poetry projects going on and plots them as parallel strands. Sampson provides an accessible map of living British poets, grouped according to the kind of poetry they write, from the Plain Dealers to the Anecdotalists.

Deep in limestone country, at the corner of the counties 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 farming village of Coleshill.

It's almost a cliche that music and poetry are cousins, and that the term lyric names this cousinship. Yet the actual forms music takes within poetry are unclear, even contested. At the same time, our assumptions about these forms condition the ways we hear poetry. So it's useful to us as both readers and writers to discover where the analogies between music and poetry are. Fiona Sampson's Music Lessons outlines some of these, using ideas and examples from Martin Heidegger to J.S. Bach, Emily Dickinson to Leonard Cohen, and George Herbert to Julia Kristeva. Her first lecture, Point...

Transforms the sensory world into an astonishingly new and vivid poetry. Combining formal sophistication with metaphysical exploration, this is an incandescent work of renewal, beauty and risk.