Description
‘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.








Milk and Honey
Postcards from God
New & Selected Potatoes
Words the Turtle Taught Me
Spiritlands
Comic Poems
This Is Yarrow
Third World Girl: Selected Poems [with live readings DVD]