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Ruth Padel
An artist turns back to her roots and discovers they are not what she thought. Daughters of the Labyrinth is a contemporary story, for an era of instability, about love…
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A brilliant and beautiful travel book about love, escape, and that most mesmerising of animals: the tiger. When Ruth Padel saw an advert for a cheap break to India, she…
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Charles Darwin
When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis…
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E M Forster
When attractive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a highly unsuitable Italian 12 years her junior. Her snobbish in-laws make no…
Mahmoud Darwish
Written by one of the most acclaimed contemporary poets in the Arab world, who is often cited as the poetic voice of the Palestinian people, this diary records his observations…
Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet who has also become renowned as a guide to reading poetry. Here, she uses poems by some of our finest poets to look at…
A passionate series of poems about what it is like to be a woman involved in a difficult love affair.
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Hallucinatory and lyrical, Ruth Padel’s poetry starts from the streets of London, reaching out to the Amazon, Siberia, Mexico and even ancient Athenian politics. Full of wildlife and colour, she…
Includes poems that use multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - and illuminates the development…
Featuring poems on British activity in Ireland through the ages intrude on an intensely moving series of love poems which reverse sexual clinches of colonisation, this title has the historical…
“Here in deep earth, the blackblossom of mourning still sifting within meI remembered that emerald was my birthstone …‘Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an…
Modern poetry is often represented as difficult or remote from most people’s experience. This is a passionate attempt to introduce and examine all aspects of contemporary poetry and make it…
Originally published in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2020 –Copyright page.
Three lectures on contemporary poetry by one of Britain’s leading poets, Ruth Padel, who hit the headlines in 2009 when she was elected Oxford Professor of Poetry in controversial circumstances…
From the author of the bestselling Darwin- A Life in Poems, Ruth Padel’s new collection follows in the footsteps of one of the world’s greatest composers, Beethoven, and investigates what…
In ninety richly varied poems and illuminating prose interludes, Ruth Padel weaves science, myth, wild nature and human history to conjure a world created and sustained by migration.
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Arguing that Greek tragic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed both to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy’s biological and daemonological metaphors for…
Featuring writers such as Ali Smith, Jon Snow, Arifa Akbar and Ruth Padel alongside stories from previously unpublished immigrants and refugees, this is a compelling collection which draws together fiction…
