The Poem and the Journey
60 Poems for the Journey of Life
$47.12
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2008
Summary
A follow-up to the successful 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem, this new anthology offers sixty wise and wonderful poems about life, along with suggestions for how to read them.
Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel is renowned for her ability to guide readers in understanding contemporary poetry. Her much-loved previous book, 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem, introduced readers to the contemporary poetry scene and explored individual poems. Her new book, invaluable for both aspirin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099492948 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099492946 |
| Author: | Ruth Padel |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2008 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
It’s a generous, likable, diligent and smart piece of work
“It’s a generous, likable, diligent and smart piece of work” – Andrew Motion Guardian “Ruth Padel is Virgil in the ‘Inferno’ of poetry. She guides the reader gently and deftly on the journey… This is much more than a book about poetry, this is a handbook for living!” – Fiona Shaw “Brilliant… Padel draws on a huge range of references to make a powerful case for poetry as a living art form” Independent “As a writer you would probably choose Ruth Padel as your ideal reader. Her eye misses very little of the nudging and winking that goes on in a poem, and she seems able to tune into the silent music of text on the page…she finds more than most to engage with and enjoy” – Simon Armitage “An enlivening, illuminating book, lucid, accessible and probing” The Times
About The Author
Ruth Padel
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.
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