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Fiona Sampson credit Mark Bassett

Fiona Sampson. Photo credit: Mark Bassett

I enjoy giving talks and readings.

Since 2016 I’ve given public lectures for, among others, the British Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Libraries of Scotland and of Wales, the British Centre for Literary Romanticism, National Portrait Gallery, the Keats-Shelley Museum Rome, British Council Paris, University of Bristol and the Wellcome Trust. I’ve directed conferences and poetry festivals, and appear regularly at international poetry festivals.

Here are a few events that have made it online:

The Language Exchange BBC R4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001dwnt

The Essay: Mother Courage BBC R4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0b490hm

The Essay: Violin BBC R4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b07dkjt4

Eliot Prize: BBC R4
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9364000/9364071.stm

Discussing Two-Way Mirror with Mark Doty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD98JTkL0YU&t=1s

Public lectures as part of Digital Fellowship at Baylor University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6yYAzLlJv0&t=16s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upEP2T4KQB0&t=369s

Poetry reading at Baylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjJYC99DX0g

‘Some Poetics of Political Intent: Strategies in 19th & 21st Century British Verse’
Projekt „Russischsprachige Lyrik in Transition“
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ioztDl_Nj4&t=1721s

Poetry reading with Ana Blandiana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBiouj-Vy6k

At Shakespeare and Co
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egQNlHd8J-A

Why read the Romantics? The Keats-Shelley Prize podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-qhdtnrJ2w

On Shelley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjrFYCnKz9o

About poetry – interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ_JPK-3Lqc

New Humanist public lecture: Is poetry useful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmh3NAgMSm8

Sanger Institute residency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_CYXXxtXE

Rough music with Stephen Goss composer and Bobby Chen piano, parts one and two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovs-ixc9vMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKRSEcW_qnk