RP
dedicated the volume to her partner Michael Black
, but the opening poem and one other are dedicated to Irish poet Matthew Sweeney
.
Padel, Ruth. Angel. Bloodaxe.
prelims
The collection (many of whose contents had appeared, often...
Literary responses
Ruth Padel
The Times Literary Supplement praised this volume's poignant sense of history.Sarah Maguire
in The Listener added the insight that this was history problematised, not finished.
Padel, Ruth. Angel. Bloodaxe.
back cover
A poem from this volume was anthologized...
Textual Production
Ruth Fainlight
Asked about contemporary poets who interest her, RF
named two Americans (Gjertrud Schnackenberg
and Anne Carson
), and in England (which she was defining rather loosely) Penelope Shuttle
and Sarah Maguire
, followed by...
