The Poem and the Journey by Ruth Padel

The Poem and the Journey by Ruth Padel

Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel is renowned as a guide to understanding today's poetry. Her much-loved 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem introduced the contemporary poetry scene and discussed individual poems. Her new book, invaluable for all who want to write as well as read poems, reveals the journey of thought, language and music within sixty more poems and also shows how poems fortify us on the journey of our lives, in a collection of essays written in elegant, accessible prose.

It's a generous, likable, diligent and smart piece of work -- Andrew Motion * Guardian *
Ruth Padel is Virgil in the 'Inferno' of poetryShe 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 *

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/.

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ISBN 13	9780099492948
ISBN 10	0099492946
Title	The Poem and the Journey
Author	Ruth Padel
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2008-01-03
Number of pages	384
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