Fiona Sampson – Year of election 2010

Fiona Sampson, a poet and critic,has published seventeen books.  She has won the Newdigate Prize, been short-listed for the Forward single-poem and T.S. Eliot Prize 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 as a translator she has been instrumental in making available some of the best poetry from Central and Balkan Europe, where she is well-known and respected as poet, editor and translator.  She describes her day-job, as editor of Poetry Review, as “advocating our best poetry – and not only what’s fashionable – to the general reader.”