Two Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Two Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

11 Dec 2021

‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning famously wrote, shortly before defying her family by running away to Italy with Robert Browning. But behind the romance of her extraordinary life stands a thoroughly modern figure, who remains an electrifying study in self-invention.

In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

11 Dec 2018

Finalist for the Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize The Times Book of the Year Observer, Independent and Financial Times Pick of the year, Sunday Times Essential Read Evening Standard London nonfiction bestseller The Guardian, Daily Mail, Spectator and Idler Book...
Lyric Cousins: Poetry and Musical Form

Lyric Cousins: Poetry and Musical Form

15 Dec 2016

Leading poet, critic and former musician explores the ‘deep forms’ common to both poetry and music Today, poetry and art music occupy similar cultural positions: each has a tendency to be regarded as problematic, ‘difficult’ and therefore ‘elitist’....
The Catch

The Catch

13 Dec 2016

Fiona Sampson’s latest collection transforms the sensory world into an astonishingly new and vivid poetry. Here, dream and myth, creatures real and imagined, and the sights and sounds of ‘distance and of home’ all coalesce in a sustained meditation on time and...
Coleshill

Coleshill

13 Dec 2013

Deep in limestone country, at the corner 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 local soil.