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“ruth padel”

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  • In and Out of the Mind

    Greek Images of the Tragic Self

    by Ruth Padel ...
    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 tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within. ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Mapping Faith

    Theologies of Migration and Community

    by Faiza Omar, Ric Stott, Oliver Joseph, Ibrahim Mogra, Katy Radford, Julie Khovacs, Ivan Khovacs, David Mason, Hassan Rabbani, Katherine Baxter, Yvonne Green, Alison Phipps, Tawona Sithole, Rachel Godfrey, Sofia Rehman, Michael Nausner, Robyn Ashworth-Steen, Sheila Curran, Sayed Razawi, Jacqueline Nicholls, Aviva Dautch, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Harvey Kwiyani, Hajra Williams, Sally Style, Mohamed Omar, Jennifer Langer, Issam Kourbaj, Ruth Padel, Nazneen Ahmed, Amir Darwish ...
    This enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities - and vice versa - through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of 'ministry' and artistic response. The contributors comprise writers, poets and artists from the three largest Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and beyond. They show how ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Beethoven Variations

    Poems on a Life

    by Ruth Padel ...
    **“Padel’s imagery and imagination took me deeper into Beethoven than many biographies I’ve read.” —Anthony Tommasini, The New York TimesA 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 poems, in four movements, is a personal voyage through the life and legend of one of the world's ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Darwin

    A Life in Poems

    by Ruth Padel ...
    This remarkable book brings us an intimate and moving interpretation of the life and work of Charles Darwin, by Ruth Padel, an acclaimed British poet and a direct descendant of the famous scientist.Charles Darwin, born in 1809, lost his mother at the age of eight, repressed all memory of her, and poured his passion into solitary walks, newt collecting, and shooting. His five-year voyage on H.M.S. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Tidings

    A Christmas Journey

    by Ruth Padel ...
    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 resonant story of a little girl, a homeless man and a fox...In the tradition of Charles Dickens and Dylan ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Emerald

    by Ruth Padel ...
    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 elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven.Exploring the riches of emerald lore, ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

  • The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle

    by Charles Darwin ...
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH PADELWhen the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory, published as The Origin of Species in 1859, is the basis of ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • We Are All From Somewhere Else

    Migration and Survival in Poetry and Prose

    by Ruth Padel ...
    *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 what does 'native' mean if the English oak is an immigrant from Spain?In ninety richly varied poems ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • On Migration

    Dangerous Journeys and the Living World

    by Ruth Padel ...
    "Life began with migration." In a magnificent tapestry of life on the move, Ruth Padel weaves poems and prose, science and religion, wild nature and human history, to conjure a world created and sustained by migration."We're all from somewhere else," she begins. "Migration builds civilization but also causes displacement." From the Holy Family's Flight into Egypt, the Lost Colony on Roanoke, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Fusewire

    by Ruth Padel ...
    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 colonisation: here Britain is female and Ireland the high-profile man.From the prize-winning poet of Rembrandt ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Rembrandt Would Have Loved You

    by Ruth Padel ...
    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 extraordinarily bold and intimate book explores the complexity of emotions that go with falling in ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Soho Leopard

    by Ruth Padel ...
    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 Dulwich Pizza Hut to ancient Siberia, King's Cross to nineteenth-century Burma. We meet Socrates, urban ... Read more

    $14.59 USD