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52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem
or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life
Av Ruth Padel
Häftad, 2004
179 kr
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Ever wondered about how to really interpret poetry? Puzzled about metre, rhyming and stanzas? Presented in language thoroughly accessible for all, poet and writer Ruth Padel demystifies poetic style, structure and meaning in this comprehensive anthology of modern poemsBased on the author’s popular …
Darwin
A Life in Poems
Av Ruth Padel
Häftad, 2010
139 kr
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In these extraordinary poems, using multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - Ruth Padel illuminates the development of Darwin's thought, the drama of the discovery of evolution, and the fluctuating emotions of Darwin …
Tigers In Red Weather
Av Ruth Padel
Häftad, 2006
169 kr
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When Ruth Padel saw an advert for a cheap break to India, she decided to visit what she had always wanted to see: tropical jungle and a wildlife sanctuary. Her impromptu trip was the start of a remarkable two-year journey in search of that most elusive and beautiful animal: the tiger. Armed with …
Where The Serpent Lives
Av Ruth Padel
Häftad, 2011
316 kr
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A family in crisis - and the wider world of wildlife in crisis too. Rosamund, unable to communicate with her philandering husband or teenage son, alienated from her zoologist father, feels cut off also from the jungle world of her Indian childhood. What if she goes back into it? Rustling with …
Sir Walter Ralegh
Av Ruth Padel
E-bok, 2010
82 kr
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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of …
Beethoven Variations
Poems on a Life
Av Ruth Padel
Inbunden, 2021
324 kr
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“Padel’s imagery and imagination took me deeper into Beethoven than many biographies I’ve read.” — Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times A fascinating poetic journey into the mind and heart of a musical genius, from the author of the celebrated Darwin: A Life in Poems Ruth Padel's new sequence of …
In and Out of the Mind
Greek Images of the Tragic Self
Av Ruth Padel
Häftad, 1994
608 kr
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Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes …
Soho Leopard
Av Ruth Padel
Häftad, 2004
179 kr
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Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padel's new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and zoological science to her glitteringly imaginative canvas. With her gift for bringing together experiences and tones of voice that normally stay far apart, she sweeps us from …
Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth
Av Ruth Padel
Häftad, 2014
178 kr
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'Making is our defence against the dark...'Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel’s powerful new poems address the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction. An oud, the central instrument of Middle Eastern music , is made and broken. An ancient …
In and Out of the Mind
Greek Images of the Tragic Self
Av Ruth Padel
E-bok, 2016
719 kr
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Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes …
Darwin
A Life in Poems
Av Ruth Padel
E-bok, 2012
105 kr
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In these extraordinary poems, using multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - Ruth Padel illuminates the development of Darwin's thought, the drama of the discovery of evolution, and the fluctuating emotions of Darwin …
Soho Leopard
Av Ruth Padel
E-bok, 2011
125 kr
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Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padel's new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and zoological science to her glitteringly imaginative canvas. With her gift for bringing together experiences and tones of voice that normally stay far apart, she sweeps us from …
Rembrandt Would Have Loved You
Av Ruth Padel
E-bok, 2011
125 kr
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Ruth Padel's passionate new collection is a woman's eye view of a love affair, with darker undercurrents of mortality and loss. Shifting between vulnerability and guilt, innocence and doubt, tenderness and frustration, teasing reproach and the exaltation of deep love and sexual happiness, Padel's …
Fusewire
Av Ruth Padel
E-bok, 2011
122 kr
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Fusewire has the fierce historical awareness and linguistic energy of Ruth Padel's previous collections but moves into new territory and new clarity. Poems on British activity in Ireland through the ages intrude on an intensely moving series of love poems which reverse sexual clichés of …
Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth
Av Ruth Padel
E-bok, 2014
102 kr
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'Making is our defence against the dark...'Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel’s powerful new poems address the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction. An oud, the central instrument of Middle Eastern music , is made and broken. An ancient …
Mara Crossing
Av Ruth Padel
Ljudbok, 2013
144 kr
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Home is where you start from, but where is a swallow''s real home? And what does ''native'' mean if the English oak is an immigrant from Spain? In ninety richly varied poems and illuminating prose interludes, Ruth Padel''s original new book weaves science, myth, wild nature and human history to …
Poems from The Mara Crossing
Av Ruth Padel
Ljudbok, 2013
132 kr
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Home is where you start from, but where is a swallow''s real home? And what does ''native'' mean if the English oak is an immigrant from Spain? In a selection of richly varied poems and illuminating prose interludes from her collection The Mara Crossing, Ruth Padel weaves science, myth, wild nature …
Daughters of The Labyrinth
Av Ruth Padel
E-bok, 2021
51 kr
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''An immersive novel, steeped in the history and folklore of Crete: transporting, historically informative story-telling'' Sunday Times ''A moving, superbly written exploration of a family with dark secrets. Crete itself becomes one of the main characters in the story'' Irish Times , Best Books …
Daughters of The Labyrinth
Av Ruth Padel
Häftad, 2022
144 kr
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'An immersive novel, steeped in the history and folklore of Crete: transporting, historically informative story-telling' Sunday Times'A moving, superbly written exploration of a family with dark secrets. Crete itself becomes one of the main characters in the story' Irish Times, Best Books …
Daughters of The Labyrinth
Av Ruth Padel
Inbunden, 2021
242 kr
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'An immersive novel, steeped in the history and folklore of Crete: transporting, historically informative story-telling' Sunday Times'A moving, superbly written exploration of a family with dark secrets. Crete itself becomes one of the main characters in the story' Irish Times, Best Books …
Daughters of The Labyrinth
Av Ruth Padel
Häftad, 2021
181 kr
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An artist turns back to her roots and discovers they are not what she thought. Daughters of the Labyrinth is a contemporary story, for an era of instability, about love, loss and memory, parents and children, the fragility of life, and the forgotten Jews of Crete.How well do you know your mother? …
Tidings
A Christmas Journey
Av Ruth Padel
E-bok, 2016
102 kr
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Beautifully illustrated and exquisitely musical, Tidings is a poem to be read out loud and cherished.‘Come with meto St Pancras Old Church, on a little London hill...’It’s Christmas Eve and on this enchanted night Charoum, the Angel of Silence, can speak. As night turns to day, he unfolds a …
Beethoven Variations
Poems on a Life
Av Ruth Padel
E-bok, 2020
102 kr
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From the author of the bestselling Darwin: A Life in Poems, Ruth Padel’s new collection follows in the footsteps of one of the world’s greatest composers, Beethoven, and investigates what his life and music might mean to us todayTwo hundred and fifty years since Beethoven was born, Ruth Padel goes …
Emerald
Av Ruth Padel
E-bok, 2018
100 kr
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An elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel‘Here in deep earth, the blackblossom of mourning still sifting within meI remembered that emerald was my birthstone …’Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an …
We Are All From Somewhere Else
Migration and Survival in Poetry and Prose
Av Ruth Padel
E-bok, 2020
102 kr
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*First published as The Mara Crossing, now with new and updated material*'A prodigy, a book of wonders. Wonder, pity and terror, the searing section of voices in transit coercing compassion - and beyond that, empathy' IndependentHome is where you start from, but where is a swallow's real home? And …
We Are All From Somewhere Else
Migration and Survival in Poetry and Prose
Av Ruth Padel
Häftad, 2020
179 kr
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*First published as The Mara Crossing, now with new and updated material*'A prodigy, a book of wonders. Wonder, pity and terror, the searing section of voices in transit coercing compassion - and beyond that, empathy' IndependentHome is where you start from, but where is a swallow's real home? And …
Minds at War
How great artists and their work were shaped by the First World War
Av Sara LeFanu, David Edgerton m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2022
159 kr
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The complete BBC Radio 3 series exploring how great creative minds responded to the First World War in individual works of art and scholarship World War I saw an unprecedented loss of life in Western Europe, and destruction on a scale no one alive had ever seen. All those who experienced it were …
Girl
Av Ruth Padel
E-bok, 2024
222 kr
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A fresh and questioning look at girlhood and its icons, unravelling the millennia of myth woven around girls.'A sensual exploration of two female archetypes' Guardian'One of our most gifted poets ... This is tender and exquisite poetry' Mona Arshi, author of Small HandsIn Girl, Ruth Padel presents …
Emerald
Av Ruth Padel
Häftad, 2018
178 kr
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An elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel‘Here in deep earth, the blackblossom of mourning still sifting within meI remembered that emerald was my birthstone …’Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an …
