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Fiona Sampson at Poetry East

This event on 24th April 2010 at 19:30 has past.

Contact: info@poetryeast.net

Poetry East

Showcasing the work of well-known contemporary poets, exploring the relationship between poetry and spiritual life. The evening consists in a short led meditation, an interview with the poet, and a reading.

This month's event features Fiona Sampson. Fiona Sampson has published seventeen books, most recently Poetry Writing (2009) and A Century of Poetry Review (PBS Special Commendation, 2009). She has won the Newdigate Prize, been short-listed for the Forward single-poem and T.S. Eliot Prizes, received writers’ awards from the Arts Councils of England and Wales, and in 2009 received a Cholmondeley Award. She is published in more than thirty languages, and her ten books in translation include Patuvachki Dnevnik, awarded the Zlaten Prsten (Macedonia). Having started life as a violinist, she collaborates regularly with composers as well as visual artists and this year gives the Newcastle Poetry Lectures under the title Music Lessons. She is the editor of Poetry Review, a regular broadsheet reviewer, and Distinguished Writer at the University of Kingston. Forthcoming are Rough Music (May, Carcanet) and the Faber Poet to poet Shelley (2011).

www.poetryeast.net

Price: £5.00

Time: 7:30pm

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London Buddhist Centre

51 Roman Road, London, E2 0HU, GB

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