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26 October 2015

“Field”: a new poem by Fiona Sampson

"And through its stems the creatures/track their errands"

By Fiona Sampson

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Fiona Sampson’s next collection, The Catch, will be published in 2016.

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This article appears in the 21 Oct 2015 issue of the New Statesman, The 18th-century Prime Minister