Rough Music
Rough Music by Fiona Sampson, published by Carcanet in 2010, is a poetry collection comprising 61 pages. This edition presents a unique exploration of the intersections between poetry and music, drawing from folk songs, ballads, and medieval carols, while highlighting the dissonance rooted in Anglo-Saxon and Romanian traditions.
Readers will find a diverse range of personal themes within the poems, including women’s identities, grief, loss, and the complexities of surviving after violence. The work is informed by medieval iconography and the diction of traditional carols, creating a rich tapestry that intertwines metaphysics and madrigal sounds. This collection invites reflection on the emotional landscapes shaped by shame, loneliness, and ill health.
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Sourcing folk songs, ballads, and medieval carols, the poems in this collection explore the points where poetry and music meet and result in a crude dissonance derived from Anglo-Saxon and Romanian traditions. Exploring a range of personal material informed by the deep, medieval iconography of common prayer, by the diction of medieval carol as well as metaphysics, poetry, and madrigal sounds, this innovative volume touches on themes of women’s identities, grief, loss, shame, loneliness, ill health, and surviving in the aftermath of violence.
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