Night Fugue [Paperback]

“Fiona Sampson burst onto the literary landscape as the brilliant young editor of Poetry Review. . . . Her subject is darkness of many kinds, erotic or lonely, histories of Eastern Europe, abandonment.” —Elaine Feinstein, The TimesFROM COLESHILL (2013)
Canto Orphic
The Changes
Emily Among the Astronomers
Songs for Poll’s Bees
Swarm
Bee-Song
Bee-Sam ’ •The Karst
In August
Winter Bees
The Corn Versicles
The Art of Fugue
I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me
Impetigo Madrigal
Dreamsongs
Evening in the Village
Hawthorn Milk
A Country Annunciation
FROM COLESHILL SONNETS
A Dream
The Death Threat
The Night-Drive
Conception Revenant
Summer Dusk
Deer at Middleleaze
Separation
Liebeslied
Tremor
FROM ROUGH MUSIC (2010)
The Betrayal
First Theory of Movement
Skater
At Käsmu •The Code
Envoi
The Miracle Tree
Out of the Attic
Charivari
Three Views of the Parish
After the Air Tattoo
Hayfever Portrait
The Lodger
Vigil
Angels and Dirt
From the Adulteress’s Songbook
The Hare
FROM COMMON PRAYER (2007)
The Plunge
Mehr Licht
Blood Lyrics
Trumpeldor Beach
Night Fugue
Festival
Attitudes of Prayer
Fogbound
The Archive
Messiaen’s Piano
FROM THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US (2005)
Prodigal
The Orpheus Variation
The Corridor
Hotel Casino
At Casa Monteoru
FROM FOLDING THE REAL (2001)
Draft for a Short Fiction
Logging the Windfall •Wulf and Eadwacer
The Basement
Wagon-Lit
From Fourteen
Into The Dark
Heron
But Summer Light
Folding the Real •The Fattening
NEW POEMS (2013)
Fran
By the Danube
The Four-Limbed CrossFIONA SAMPSON was born in London in 1968. A former concert violinist with a doctorate in philosophy, she has published more than twenty books of poetry, translation and criticism. She is a Fellow of the Royal ló(