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Ruth Padel
Ruth Padel’s ten collections have been shortlisted for a number of prizes. Her prose includes a travel memoir, Tigers in Red Weather on tiger conservation; I’m A Man on Greek myth and rock music; and a wildlife novel, Where the Serpent LivesAwards include a British Council ‘Darwin Now’ Fellowship and First Prize in the National Poetry Competition. She is Professor of Poetry at King’s College London and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Two Poems

Poetry

May 2018

Ruth Padel

Poetry

May 2018

INTERMISSION   She stabilised. She started dying and then stopped. My brother said her aneurysm had sealed       stuck   between a kidney and her...

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Art

October 2015

Licence to Play

Thirza Wakefield

Art

October 2015

In his 1992 essay ‘In Search of the Centaur’, the writer and critic Phillip Lopate described the essay-film as...

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April 2017

Everywhere and Nowhere

Vahni Capildeo

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April 2017

Part of my reluctance to write on citizenship is that as a poet, a worker in delicate, would-be-truthful language,...

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October 2013

A World of Sharp Edges: A Week Among Poets in the Western Cape

André Naffis-Sahely

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October 2013

In Antal Szerb’s The Incurable, the eccentric millionaire Peter Rarely steps into the dining car of a train steaming...

 

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