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Contact

To contact Ruth, you can email her agent, Robert Kirby at United Agents, London: RKirby@unitedagents.co.uk

Upcoming Events

  1. May
    31
    Fri
    2013
    1. 6:30 pm POETRY LONDON LAUNCH OF SUMMER ISSUE @ FOYLES BOOKSHOP
      POETRY LONDON LAUNCH OF SUMMER I... @ FOYLES BOOKSHOP
      6:30 pm
  2. Jun
    11
    Tue
    2013
    1. 6:30 pm WRITERS TALKS IN ZSL LONDON ZOO: RUTH CHAIRS HELEN DUNMORE ON SUMATRAN TIGERS @ ZSL LONDON ZOO
      WRITERS TALKS IN ZSL LONDON ZOO:... @ ZSL LONDON ZOO
      6:30 pm

      In the second of the ZSL series of Writers' Talks on Endangered Animals, Ruth  chairs Helen Dunmore reading a specially commssioned piece on endangered Sumatran [...]

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RECENT ARTICLES

  • Analyzing Poetry on Air
  • Guardian review of first poetry collection by Sam Riviere
  • On London Zoo and conservation in The New Statesman
  • On migrating cells in The Scientist magazine.

RECENT BOOKS

  • Darwin – A Life in Poems (2009), shortlisted for the Costa Prize: lyric poems on Charles Darwin’s life and thought. “Darwin’s descendant has evolved a new species of biography – by poetic selection,” Guardian
  • Silent Letters of the Alphabet (2010) three talks on poetry’s use of silence.
  • Where the Serpent Lives (2010): a novel on wildlife, field zoology, jungles and marriages: “An intensely readable parable of love and fear,” Daily Mail

Other Links

  • LISTEN to Ruth reading a new poem commissioned for NOWHERE ISLAND,
  • READ a review of a new stage version of Ruth’ book Darwin – A Life in Poems by the Mephisto Stage Company, Galway.
  • READ Ruth’s account of working on a text with composer Michael Zev Gordon, for a choral work about the human genome.
  • Read a new poem by Ruth in The New Yorker

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