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52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life

52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life

by Ruth Padel

The best modern poetry anthology-with-a-difference'Padel's clear and informed approach makes modern poetry ...

The Poem and the Journey: 60 poems for the journey of life

The Poem and the Journey: 60 poems for the journey of life

by Ruth Padel

A follow up to the successful 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem, this new anthology gives you sixty wise and ...

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Ruth Padel

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Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel is a prizewinning poet, Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Zoological Society of London, and first Resident Writer at Somerset House, London. Her collections include Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard, all shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and more recently Darwin: A Life in Poems, shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. Highly acclaimed for her nature writing in a book about conservation, Tigers in Red Weather, and her novel, Where the Serpent Lives, she has also published books on contemporary poetry, including 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem and The Poem and the Journey.


Books by Ruth Padel

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52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life

52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life

by Ruth Padel

The best modern poetry anthology-with-a-difference'Padel's clear and informed approach makes modern poetry completely accessible' The Times

The Poem and the Journey: 60 poems for the journey of life

The Poem and the Journey: 60 poems for the journey of life

by Ruth Padel

A follow up to the successful 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem, this new anthology gives you sixty wise and wonderful poems about life and suggests ways of reading them

Darwin: A Life in Poems

Darwin: A Life in Poems

by Ruth Padel

An intimate and moving interpretation of the life and work of Charles Darwin, by the acclaimed poet and direct descendent of the famous scientist

The Soho Leopard

The Soho Leopard

by Ruth Padel

Best collection yet from the highly acclaimed author of Voodoo Shop and editor of 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem.

Rembrandt Would Have Loved You

Rembrandt Would Have Loved You

by Ruth Padel

A passionate series of poems about what it is like to be a women involved in a difficult love affair. Ruth Padel previous book Fusewire received excellent reviews and was named by the Guardian 'the best ...

The Mara Crossing

The Mara Crossing

by Ruth Padel

In ninety richly varied poems and illuminating prose interludes, Ruth Padel's original new book weaves science, myth, wild nature and human history to conjure a world created and sustained by migration ...

Books: 7
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