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Ruth Padel

November 2023

  • A man walks on Glacier Chacaltaya i

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Down Here You’re With the Possible by Ruth Padel

    A cautionary lesson in hard ecological science also leaves room for the human hunger for magic

February 2021

  • John Keats (1795-1821), portrait by William Hilton, oil on canvas, 1822.<br>2BTJPNY John Keats (1795-1821), portrait by William Hilton, oil on canvas, 1822.

    A joy forever: poetry world prepares to mark bicentenary of John Keats

    Two hundred years after his early death, plays, readings and new poetry will honour the legacy of the much beloved author

December 2016

  • Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Deadly beauty with Ruth Padel and Lucinda Hawksley – books podcast

  • Tidings: A Christmas Journey by Ruth Padel – wise and eloquent

November 2016

  • Alan Vest

    My writing day
    Ruth Padel: ‘Writing needs connection to the outside world: a lot of it seems to get done when you’re simply living’

    The author of Tidings: A Christmas Journey on homelessness, living near one of the first sites of Christianity in England, and how poetry is like sculpting

March 2016

  • Poet David Morley.

    Poetry Society top prize explores familial discord

    Eric Berlin wins prestigious award with poem Night Errand, while David Morley takes Ted Hughes prize

November 2015

  • Kei Miller

    Only connect – poetry's hidden power to break down barriers

    Poetry’s delicate dance between the said and the unsaid opens up new ways of thinking across disciplinary boundaries, says Ruth Padel

September 2015

  • Marina Lewycka

    Leading writers hope to shift refugee debate with crowdfunded anthology

    Monica Ali, William Boyd and Marina Lewycka among the authors recruited with aim of shifting public perspectives

May 2015

  • Poetry polling ... Wole Soyinka.

    Wole Soyinka leads candidates for Oxford professor of poetry

    Nigerian Nobel laureate receives strong support to win 300-year-old position, held in the past by writers from Matthew Arnold to Seamus Heaney

October 2014

  • Ruth Padel

    TS Eliot prize shortlist joins conflict and reconciliation in the Middle East

    News: Ruth Padel’s exploration of religious understanding, Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth, and Kevin Powers’ Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, drawing on his Iraq war service, among the 10-strong shortlist

July 2014

  • Ruth Padel, poetry book of month

    Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth review – Ruth Padel's new collection tackles the Middle East

    Musical instruments of east and west appear in the search for common ground in Ruth Padel's accomplished new collection, writes Kate Kellaway

June 2014

  • Light bulb

    The Saturday poem
    The Saturday poem: The Electrification of Beth Shalom

    by Ruth Padel

May 2012

  • Gwyneth Williams

    Radio 4 set to refocus on arts and culture, says controller

    Initiative includes five-and-a-half hour dramatisation of Ulysses and influential Swedish crime novel series Martin Beck. By Ben Dowell

March 2012

  • Moving work … Ruth Padel began her poetry and prose study at the level of cell migration.

    Guardian Open Weekend
    Ruth Padel: 'Poetry has a responsibility to look at the world'

    The latest book from Ruth Padel, who will appear at the Guardian Open Weekend this Sunday, tackles the politically knotty subject of migration. She discusses the difficulties inherent in turning 'burning moral issues' into good poetry

February 2012

  • Clifford Harper illustration for Review

    The Mara Crossing by Ruth Padel – review

  • Couple reading

    Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day

January 2012

  • Matthew Rhys in The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    Literary events in 2012

    More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlights

December 2011

  • The Saturday poem
    The Saturday poem: Gun

    By Ruth Padel

March 2010

  • Subversion of the natural order

    Mary Fitzgerald on Where the Serpent Lives by Ruth Padel, The Temple-goers by Aatish Taseer and Lovetown by Michal Witkowski

February 2010

  • Where the Serpent Lives by Ruth Padel

    Stevie Davies discovers where the wild things are
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