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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.
Ruth Padel is a prize-winning 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.
In 2014, Ruth Padel is the first Writer in Residence at Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden, and is recording her experiences in her blog
at http-//www.ruthpadel.com/blog/.
"It's a generous, likable, diligent and smart piece of work" -- Andrew Motion Guardian "Ruth Padel is Virgil in the 'Inferno' of poetry. She guides the reader gently and deftly on the journey... This is much more than a book about poetry, this is a handbook for living!" -- Fiona Shaw "Brilliant... Padel draws on a huge range of references to make a powerful case for poetry as a living art form" Independent "As a writer you would probably choose Ruth Padel as your ideal reader. Her eye misses very little of the nudging and winking that goes on in a poem, and she seems able to tune into the silent music of text on the page...she finds more than most to engage with and enjoy" -- Simon Armitage "An enlivening, illuminating book, lucid, accessible and probing" The Times
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