Interviews | Ruth Padel
“Exploring the Jungle of Life,” Hampstead & Highgate Express, March 2010
Padel Explores the Jungle of Life Inspired by her interest in wildlife and conservation, the Hampstead poet has written a novel which parallels the human world with the animal one, discovers Bridget Galton ………………………….. Ruth Padel is that rare beast – a high profile poet. She has been Chair of the Poetry Society and has(read more…)
Interview in The Scotsman Magazine, February 2010
INTERVIEW IN THE SCOTSMAN MAGAZINE 8 February 2010 Interview by Chitra Ramaswamy What do we know about Ruth Padel? Well, she’s a major poet, academic, broadcaster, and the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin. She is an expert on rock music and Greek myth. She has taught horse-riding in Berlin and gone searching for tigers in the(read more…)
Interviews in The Hindu, India, January 2010
The Evolution of Ruth Padel Staff Reporter As with her ancestor Charles Darwin, animals are central to her work British poet Ruth Padel spoke of the need to protect the tiger at her reading in Bangalore on Friday. BANGALORE: It was an evening that brought science, poetry, religion and faith together — all territories that(read more…)
“Ruth Awakening”, Bangalore Time Out, January 2010
Bangalore Time Out, January 12th 2010 RUTH AWAKENING Charles Darwin’s great-great-granddaughter is here to update the theory of evolution, says Jaideep Sen. ………………………… You wouldn’t expect rock music to serve as a way of understanding theories of such things as evolution, natural selection and male-dominated societies. Cartloads of chimpanzees perhaps, or missions of monkeys, congresses(read more…)
“Remembering Iris Murdoch”, Sunday Times, January 2010
Time and place: Sunday Times, January 31, 2010 Ruth Padel Interview by Hilary Whitney The great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin recalls gazing at the river from her tiny flat in Chelsea “I moved to Flat 7, 7 Embankment Gardens, in Chelsea, in 1979,” says Ruth Padel. “There was something magical about it, not least because it(read more…)
Interview in The Guardian, November 2009
Guardian Interview with Aida Edemariam 28th November 2009 Ruth Padel’s rooms in Christ’s College, Cambridge are on a staircase just along the quad from those once occupied by her great-great-grandfather. The doorway retains his name, C Darwin, as though he were still an undergraduate. The author of On the Origin of Species came here in(read more…)
Interview in The Guardian, May 2009
Guardian Interview, by Sarah Crown, Saturday 16 May 2009 A life in poetry: Ruth Padel Looking back over the last week, Ruth Padel doesn’t mince her words. “It’s horrible,” she says. “Derek Walcott is my colleague: I revere his work, and have written about him and learned from him. I had absolutely no wish to(read more…)
Interview in The Wolf, April 2009
The Wolf Magazine, Issue 20 Interview with Ruth Padel, April 2009 Questions by James Byrne Unlike previous Wolf interviews—where I like to refer to as many books as possible in a poet’s oeuvre—I’m going to ask questions that relate to your most recent collection Darwin: A Life in Poems. I’ve just finished reading Darwin and(read more…)
Interview in Irish Times, February 2009
‘His attention to all life forms was exactly the same as his attention to his children and his wife,’ says Ruth Padel of her great-great-grandfather, Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin was born 200 years ago today, and for Ruth Padel, the best way to commemorate her world-renowned great-great- grandfather was to write a book of poetry(read more…)
Education Interview, The Independent, January 2007
Interview in Independent, Education Supplement 18th January 2007 Interview by Jonathan Sale AN EDUCATION: RUTH PADEL, WRITER Ruth Padel is the great-great-grand-daughter of Charles Darwin and winner of the National Poetry Competition. She has been the resident poet at the Proms and the Chair of the Poetry Society. “The Poem and the Journey”, published today(read more…)
