Ruth Padel
Ruth Padel’s collections are
Alibi (The Many Press, 1985); Summer Snow (London, Hutchinson, 1990);
Angel (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Bloodaxe Books, 1993) which was a UK Poetry Book Society Recommendation;
Fusewire (London, Chatto, 1996);
Rembrandt Would Have Loved You (Chatto, 1998), which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award;
Voodoo Shop (Chatto & Windus, 2002), which was Shortlisted for Whitbread and T S ELiot Prizes 2002; and
The Soho Leopard (Chatto & Windus, 2004), which was Poetry Book Socety Choice, and Shortlisted for T S ELiot Prize 2004.
Her non-fiction includes In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self (Princeton University Press, 1994); Whom Gods Destroy (Princeton, 1996); I'm a Man (London, Faber & Faber, 2000); 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem (London, Vintage, 2002); Tigers in Red Weather (London, Little Brown, 2005); Tennyson, Selected Poems with Introduction and Notes (London, The Folio Society); and The Poem and the Journey (Chatto & Windus, 2007).
She lives in London.
