Best collection yet from the highly acclaimed author of VOODOO SHOP and editor of 52 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A POEM.
Ruth Padel is a prize-winning poet, Fellow of both the Royal
Society of Literature and the Zoological Society of London, and
first Resident Writer at Somerset House, London. Her collections
include Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, Voodoo Shop and The Soho
Leopard, all shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and more
recently Darwin- A Life in Poems, shortlisted for the Costa Poetry
Award.
Highly acclaimed for her nature writing in a book about
conservation, Tigers in Red Weather, and her novel, Where the
Serpent Lives, she has also published books on contemporary poetry,
including 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem and The Poem and the
Journey.
In 2014, Ruth Padel is the first Writer in Residence at Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden, and is recording her experiences in her blog
at http-//www.ruthpadel.com/blog/.
A glittering imaginative riff on a broken relationship
*Christina Patterson, Independent*
Sensuous... humorous, tender, flamboyant and unforgettable
*Independent*
Visual, sensuous and highly seductive - as if Wallace Stevens had
hijacked Sylvia Plath with a dash of punk Sappho thrown in
*Times Literary Supplement*
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