Folding the Real

Fiona Sampson
Surviving a murder attempt generates the clarity, compression and pure celebratory drive of this book’s title sequence of fourteen syllabic sonnets. These form the spinal cord of the entire collection, from which nerve endings reach out into a dizzying range of poetic matter, while retaining the book’s essential coherence and integrity and what Maura Dooley calls "Fiona Sampson’s incisive, inquisitive, painterly eye".

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ISBN : 185411297X  Pages : 64
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"Sampson is working on the very outer languages of language here, seeking for the truths that emerge at the instant when syntax, vocabulary and even the shape of words on the page dissolves.  Her mellifluous verse-novel provides a compelling exploration of the points at which language and love intersect, and draws a conclusion that is, in its way, as experimental as the rest of her collection, when she declares in her poem that it is in love, rather than in language, ’where meaning comes to rest’". Sarah Crown, The Guardian, 28/05/06



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