List Of Writers

SAMPSON, FIONA

Wythgreen House, Colshill, Highworth, Swindon SN6 7PS
Tel / Fax: ( 01793) 764459
Email: fionasampson@yahoo.co.uk

Fiona Sampson is a poet and editor. She grew up in West Wales and was schooled in Aberystwyth. Her pioneering residencies in health care, a field in which she still consults internationally, led to her doctorate on the social roles of poetry. Widely published as reviewer and essayist, she has also written for radio and public art commission. She has been published and broadcast in fifteen languages. Awards include the 2003 Zlaten Prsten for international writing (Macedonian Foundation for Culture and Sciences), a Hawthornden Fellowship, the Newdigate Prize; and awards from the Arts Councils of England and Wales and the Society of Authors. Her work was shortlisted in the Best Individual Poem category of the Forward Prize in 2006. Dr Sampson is the Editor of Poetry Review; and of Orient Express, a journal of contemporary writing from Enlargement Europe. Her latest title, Common Prayer (Carcanet, 2007), has been short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

Selected Publications:
Picasso’s Men (Phoenix Press, 1994)
The Healing Word (The Poetry Society, 1999)
Folding the Real (Seren, 2001)
Writing in Health Care: Towards a Theoretical Framework: A Scientific Essay in Policy Studies (F.R. Sampson, 2001)
Travel Diary (Knixevna Akademija, 2004)
Evening Brings Everything Back: Translations of Jaan Kaplinski (2004)
The Distance Between Us (Seren, 2005)
Common Prayer (Carcanet, 2007)
On Listening (Reconstruction) (Salt Publishing, 2007)

Contributed to:
The Self on the Page: Theory and Practice of Creative Writing and Personal Development (with Celia Hunt), (Jessica Kingsley, 1997)
The Self on the Page (co–editor) (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1998)
A Fine Line: New Poetry from East and Central Europe (co–editor) (Arc Publications, 2004)
Creative Writing in Health and Social Care (editor) (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004)
Hotal Casino (co-editor) (Aark Arts, 2004)
Writing: Self and Reflexivity (co-writer) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Pendulum: The Poetry of Dreams (contributor) (Avalanche, 2008)



Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Readings
2. Texts for public artwork
3. Seminars and workshops
4. Community projects

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