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Fiona Sampson

Poetry

Summer 2010

The Unlucky May

By Fiona Sampson

The night before, having kept you guessing, your younger daughter arrived and took over the kitchen in a house that was still new and comfortless, not yet a place but […]

Poetry

Summer 2010

On Listening

By Fiona Sampson

Under the sound of the boiler—what? A radio, wind in the chimney, voices from next door? My ear strains past them, catching the pitched hum of the pump, unstoppable as […]