Poets' praise in letter to The Guardian

    guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 7 March 2012 

Now that Fiona Sampson ( photo Kitty O'Sullivan) has left the Poetry Society (Poetry Review editor Fiona Samson resigns, 27 February) and an apology to her has been published on the Society's website, the time seems right to make clear how good a job she did during her time there.

Under her editorship, Poetry Review became a magazine of international standing. She consistently published the best poetry written in English, by both established names and newcomers, and commissioned insightful and challenging essays from a wide range of poets, as well as remaining hospitable to the most interesting work from Europe and America. The aim of any magazine must, surely, to be to enrich the culture. Few achieve it. Under Fiona Sampson's dedicated editorship, Poetry Review did just that.

Don Paterson
John Burnside
David Harsent
William Sieghart
Jo Shapcott
Robin Robertson
Wendy Cope
Sean O'Brien
Christopher Reid
Ian McMillan
Michael Longley
Kathleen Jamie
Christian Wiman
Lavinia Greenlaw
Elaine Feinstein
Matthew Hollis
CK Williams
Ruth Padel
John Kinsella
Ian Duhig
Anne Stevenson
Alan Jenkins
Lachlan McKinnon
Alan Brownjohn
Mimi Khalvati
WN Herbert
Ahren Warner
Ruth Fainlight
Stephen Romer
Neil Rollinson
Pascale Petit
CK Stead
Marilyn Hacker
Sarah Maguire
Adam Thorpe
Penelope Shuttle
Paula Johnson
Greg Delanty
Fady Joudah
Gary McKeone
Jeremy Treglown
Yang Lian
Carole Satyamurti
Douglas Houston
Roger Garfitt
Ruth O'Callaghan
David Morley
Evan Jones
Angel Dahouk
Sarah Wardle
Knut Ødegård
Linda Anderson
Dan Burt
Valérie Rouzeau
Evan Jones
Tim Liardet
John Siddique
Lavinia Singer
Chloe Stopa-Hunt
Jane Duran
Ioana Ieronim
Naomi Jaffa
Martin Harrison
Aleksandar Prokopiev
Pia Tafdrup
Myra Schneider
Sean Borodale
Peter Zilahy
Tracy Ryan
Chris Kinsey
Todd Swift
Kim Moore
Patrick Dubost
Tsvetanka Elenkova
Jonathan Dunne
Stephen Matthews
Malika Booker
Thomas Möhlmann
Julian TaupeRichard Kerridge