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“ruth padel”

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  • Girl

    by Ruth Padel ...
    A f****resh and questioning look at girlhood and its icons, unravelling the millennia of myth woven around girls.'A sensual exploration of two female archetypes' Guardian'One of our most gifted poets ... This is tender and exquisite poetry' Mona Arshi, author of Small HandsIn Girl, Ruth Padel presents a triptych of interlocking sequences. A moving retelling of the Christian story transforms the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • We Are All From Somewhere Else

    Migration and Survival in Poetry and Prose

    by Ruth Padel ...
    *First published as The Mara Crossing, now with new and updated material*'A prodigy, a book of wonders. Wonder, pity and terror, the searing section of voices in transit coercing compassion - and beyond that, empathy' IndependentHome is where you start from, but where is a swallow's real home? And what does 'native' mean if the English oak is an immigrant from Spain?In ninety richly varied poems ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Beethoven Variations

    Poems on a Life

    by Ruth Padel ...
    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 his life and music might mean to us todayTwo hundred and fifty years since Beethoven was born, Ruth Padel goes on a personal search for him, retracing his steps through war-torn Europe of the early nineteenth ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Tidings

    A Christmas Journey

    by Ruth Padel ...
    Beautifully illustrated and exquisitely musical, Tidings is a poem to be read out loud and cherished.‘Come with meto St Pancras Old Church, on a little London hill...’It’s Christmas Eve and on this enchanted night Charoum, the Angel of Silence, can speak. As night turns to day, he unfolds a resonant story of a little girl, a homeless man and a fox...In the tradition of Charles Dickens and Dylan ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Emerald

    by Ruth Padel ...
    An elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel‘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 elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven.Exploring the riches of emerald lore, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Fusewire

    by Ruth Padel ...
    Fusewire has the fierce historical awareness and linguistic energy of Ruth Padel's previous collections but moves into new territory and new clarity. Poems on British activity in Ireland through the ages intrude on an intensely moving series of love poems which reverse sexual clichés of colonisation: here Britain is female and Ireland the high-profile man.From the prize-winning poet of Rembrandt ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • In and Out of the Mind

    Greek Images of the Tragic Self

    by Ruth Padel ...
    Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within. ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Sir Walter Ralegh

    by Ruth Padel ...
    In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature.Sir Walter Ralegh, poet, scholar, soldier and explorer, travel ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Soho Leopard

    by Ruth Padel ...
    Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padel's new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and zoological science to her glitteringly imaginative canvas. With her gift for bringing together experiences and tones of voice that normally stay far apart, she sweeps us from Dulwich Pizza Hut to ancient Siberia, King's Cross to nineteenth-century Burma. We meet Socrates, urban ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth

    by Ruth Padel ...
    'Making is our defence against the dark...'Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel’s powerful new poems address the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction. An oud, the central instrument of Middle Eastern music , is made and broken. An ancient synagogue survives attacks, a Palestinian boy in a West Bank refugee camp learns capoeira, and a guide shows ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Rembrandt Would Have Loved You

    by Ruth Padel ...
    Ruth Padel's passionate new collection is a woman's eye view of a love affair, with darker undercurrents of mortality and loss. Shifting between vulnerability and guilt, innocence and doubt, tenderness and frustration, teasing reproach and the exaltation of deep love and sexual happiness, Padel's extraordinarily bold and intimate book explores the complexity of emotions that go with falling in ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Darwin

    A Life in Poems

    by Ruth Padel ...
    In these extraordinary poems, using multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - Ruth Padel illuminates the development of Darwin's thought, the drama of the discovery of evolution, and the fluctuating emotions of Darwin the husband, the naturalist and the tender father, in a powerful tribute to her famous ancestor ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD