OVERVIEW

Ruth Padel is a prize-winning British poet, currently Resident Poet at Somerset House, London. See http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/literature

 Recent Poem

She also writes non-fiction - on poetry, music and nature: as in her book TIGERS IN RED WEATHER, about her search for the tigers vanishing from Asian jungles.

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               Poetry  

"Dazzling linguistic accomplishment",                                                                    Independent

"Passion, wit, music, texture and elegance"

                                                                    Paul Durcan

"Elegant rich lines, teeming with splendour, interpret the modern world in terms of the ancient and natural worlds"

                                                                    Financial Times

       Hear Ruth reading her poems www.poetryarchive.org

            Buy CD - www.poetrybookshoponline.co.uk

               Latest Collection

            THE SOHO LEOPARD

                        Poetry Book Society Choice 

                            T S Eliot Prize Shortlist

    “Soaring rhythms, assured technique and a gift for

        modulating from conversational voice to richly

              textured singing line", Sunday Telegraph

               Latest Book

    THE POEM & THE JOURNEY 

“A defence of poetry of a kind I've been waiting a long time to read. Brilliant." Peter Forbes, Independent

“Generous, likeable. impressively focussed, Andrew Motion, Guardian

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