Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson is an award-winning British poet, and poetry editor of New Humanist
Articles by Fiona Sampson
Creating the countryside
A spring morning in Herefordshire reminds us how much of the rural environment is manmade
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Larkin’s generation game
First published in New Humanist in 1971, Philip Larkin's "This Be The Verse" has become a cultural phenomenon. But why?
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Why we need a radical approach to the countryside
The Romantic movement saw how political the countryside could be. Such an approach could help us confront the climate crisis.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: a poet rediscovered
EBB was a towering literary figure of her age. What does her erasure from the canon say about our culture?
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The wilderness in us: how human identity is formed by landscape
We have always been shaped by the natural landscape, just as it has been shaped by our history.
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Why poetry is good for the rational mind
Poetry shows us that the world is more varied and unpredictable than we might otherwise imagine.
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Mark Doty’s triumphal homecoming
A new collection from Doty, the living poet who has arguably done most to find a way of writing about gay urban life.
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Travels in Yangzhou, where authenticity is a state of mind
For a visitor accustomed to the cult of the individual, the ordering of experience in Chinese art can be disarming.
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