Carcanet Press - Rough Music

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Something was broken –

like milk not rising from the floor

to resume the shape of a jug,

the stone splashed

with creamy stars –

from 'The Betrayal'

'Rough music' is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This is a book full of disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore themes of violence, loss and belonging. Fiona Sampson's characteristic lyric intensity deftly fuses metaphysics and politics with the vernacular of daily life.

Cover painting: Marek Ormandik, Suboj (‘Combat’). Reproduced by kind permission of the artist. Cover design StephenRaw.com

Contents

The Betrayal

Zeus to Juno

First Theory of Movement

Communion

Skater

At Käsmu

The Code

Envoi

Rough Music or Songs without Tunes

Out of the Attic

The Miracle Tree

Nel Mezzo

Bushes and Briars

Saturn’s Riddle

In a Chalk Landscape

The Door

Charivari

Three Views of the Parish:

After the Air Tattoo

Hayfever Portrait

The Lodger

Angels and Dirt

The Rain-glass

Amal and the Night Visitors

Deep Water

Crow Voodoo

Blade

The Sun-spot

From the Adulteress’s Songbook

Schubertiad

Vigil

Charms for Love

The Hare

Fiona Sampson has been published in more than thirty languages. �She has twelve books in translation, and has received the Zlaten Prsten (Macedonia) and the Charles Angoff Award (US), and been shortlisted for the Evelyn Encelot Prize for European Women Poets. �From 2005-2012 she was the Editor of Poetry Review ; ... read more

Awards won by Fiona Sampson Short-listed, 2010 Fiona Sampson shortlisted amongst 10 others for the TS Eliot poetry prize. (Rough Music)

Praise for Fiona Sampson 'It's always been the great distinction - and the great opportunity - of Poetry Review to be at once a beacon and a lighthouse: as interested in providing a centre for good writing, as it is in estabishing and representing a wide curiosity about the many forms that good writing might take. It's especially heartening to see the magazine in such excellent health in this, its centenary year.'
Andrew Motion 'Fiona Sampson burst onto the literary landscape as the brilliant young editor of Poetry Review a couple of years ago. In Common Prayer, her subject is darkness of many kinds, erotic or lonely, histories of Eastern Europe, abandonment. She finds a subtle suggestion of sexual gesture in unexpected places.'
Elaine Feinstein, The Times 'That she is also a very fine poet indeed seems almost impertinent of her, but that is what she isâ¦ Sampson's free verse soon surprises by its seductive ease and its vivid rendition of he ordinary, material world. This perfect equilibrium between the numinous and the touchable is typical of Sampson's achievement.'
Adam Thorpe, the Guardian 'Urgent, acrobatically alert poems alternate with the comparative stillness of a series of love sonnets. Here, too, the imagination is always at work, demonstrating that curiosity is a form of passion.'
Sean O'Brien, The Sunday Times

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Rough Music Fiona Sampson Categories: 21st Century, British, Women Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (64 pages) (Pub. May 2010) 9781847770455 Out of Stock Description Excerpt Author Contents Awards Reviews Something was broken – like milk not rising from the floor to resume the shape of a jug, the stone splashed with creamy stars – from 'The Betrayal' 'Rough music' is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This is a book full of disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore themes of violence, loss and belonging. Fiona Sampson's characteristic lyric intensity deftly fuses metaphysics and politics with the vernacular of daily life. Cover painting: Marek Ormandik, Suboj (‘Combat’). Reproduced by kind permission of the artist. Cover design StephenRaw.com Contents The Betrayal Zeus to Juno First Theory of Movement Communion Skater At Käsmu The Code Envoi Rough Music or Songs without Tunes Out of the Attic The Miracle Tree Nel Mezzo Bushes and Briars Saturn’s Riddle In a Chalk Landscape The Door Charivari Three Views of the Parish: After the Air Tattoo Hayfever Portrait The Lodger Angels and Dirt The Rain-glass Amal and the Night Visitors Deep Water Crow Voodoo Blade The Sun-spot From the Adulteress’s Songbook Schubertiad Vigil Charms for Love The Hare Fiona Sampson has been published in more than thirty languages. �She has twelve books in translation, and has received the Zlaten Prsten (Macedonia) and the Charles Angoff Award (US), and been shortlisted for the Evelyn Encelot Prize for European Women Poets. �From 2005-2012 she was the Editor of Poetry Review ; ... read more Awards won by Fiona Sampson Short-listed, 2010 Fiona Sampson shortlisted amongst 10 others for the TS Eliot poetry prize. (Rough Music) Praise for Fiona Sampson 'It's always been the great distinction - and the great opportunity - of Poetry Review to be at once a beacon and a lighthouse: as interested in providing a centre for good writing, as it is in estabishing and representing a wide curiosity about the many forms that good writing might take. It's especially heartening to see the magazine in such excellent health in this, its centenary year.' Andrew Motion 'Fiona Sampson burst onto the literary landscape as the brilliant young editor of Poetry Review a couple of years ago. In Common Prayer, her subject is darkness of many kinds, erotic or lonely, histories of Eastern Europe, abandonment. She finds a subtle suggestion of sexual gesture in unexpected places.' Elaine Feinstein, The Times 'That she is also a very fine poet indeed seems almost impertinent of her, but that is what she isâ¦ Sampson's free verse soon surprises by its seductive ease and its vivid rendition of he ordinary, material world. This perfect equilibrium between the numinous and the touchable is typical of Sampson's achievement.' Adam Thorpe, the Guardian 'Urgent, acrobatically alert poems alternate with the comparative stillness of a series of love sonnets. Here, too, the imagination is always at work, demonstrating that curiosity is a form of passion.' Sean O'Brien, The Sunday Times	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog One Little Room: Peter McDonald read more Collected Poems: Mimi Khalvati read more Invisible Dog: Fabio Morbito, translated by Richard Gwyn read more Dante's Purgatorio: Philip Terry read more Billy 'Nibs' Buckshot: John Gallas read more Emotional Support Horse: Claudine Toutoungi read more
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