{"id":2276,"date":"2017-09-14T18:54:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T18:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/ruth-padel\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T00:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T00:22:55","slug":"ruth-padel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/ruth-padel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Padel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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photo by Luigi Cazzanigana taken in NYC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ruth Padel<\/a> was born in London and has lived extensively in Greece, especially Crete. She is an award-winning British poet, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Poetry at King’s College London and has published ten collections, including Darwin A Life in Poems<\/em> (Knopf, 2009), shortlisted for the Costa Prize, an acclaimed verse biography of her great-great grandfather Charles Darwin; The Mara Crossing <\/em>(On Migration<\/em>, Counterpoint Press USA, 2013), shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Prize, on human and animal migration; and Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth<\/em>, shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, on the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Her most recent collection is Tidings, A Christmas Journey – a narrative poem about a homeless man, a fox and a little girl, which follows the Christmas sunrise across the globe.<\/p>\n

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Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her prose includes Tigers in Red Weather <\/em>on tiger conservation, I’m A Man <\/em>on the influence of Greek mythology on rock music; a wildlife novel Where the Serpent Lives; <\/em>two much-loved books on reading contemporary poetry, 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem <\/em>and The Poem and the Journey;<\/em> and lectures on silence in poetry, Silent Letters of the Alphabet<\/em> (Bloodaxe Books 2010).<\/p>\n

Learn more about Ruth in a review of Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth<\/a> in the Guardian, also a review of On Migration<\/a>, and <\/em>a review of Darwin A life in Poems<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In this blog for Kings College she discusses the process for writing a poem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tidings A Christmas Journey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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