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Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel is resident poet at Somerset House. ‘The Sea Will Do Us All Good’ was commissioned by the Bristol Festival of Ideas and will appear in A Voyage round Charles Darwin.

Selected bibliography

  • The Poem and the Journey: And Sixty Poems to Read Along the Way (2007)
  • Tigers in Red Weather: A Journey Through Asia (2005)
  • The Soho Leopard (2004)
  • 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem: A Poem for Every Week of the Year (2002)
  • Voodoo Shop (2002)
  • Rembrandt Would Have Loved You (1998)
  • Angel (1993)
  • In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self (1992)

Contributor’s website: www.ruthpadel.com

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘The Sea Will Do Us All Good’ · 4 December 2008

subscriber-only content Diary · 29 November 2007

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘Slices of Toast’ · 8 March 2007

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 4 January 2007

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘The Forest, the Corrupt Official and a Bowl of Penis Soup’ · 18 March 2004

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 20 February 2003

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Four Poems · 21 March 2002

 not available in archive Two Poems · 1 June 2000

 not available in archive Poem: ‘The Phoenix’ · 27 May 1999