Ruth Padel
Standard Name: Padel, Ruth
Birth Name: Ruth Sofia Padel
Married Name: Ruth Burnyeat
RP
is a contemporary writer who came late to publishing poetry, after a career as a classical scholar who wrote on Greek literature and feminist theory. She is also a career journalist and reviewer, and has published successful poetry anthologies of popularizing or educative intent, as well as introductions to works by others and an unusual travel memoir.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Kate Clanchy | While the family was in Edinburgh, KC
's mother, Joan Clanchy
, was the Headmistress of St George's School for Girls
(which numbers Ménie Muriel Dowie
among its distinguished former students). Scott, Jane. “By Virtue Of An Explosive Arts Debut”. The Herald. |
Friends, Associates | Elaine Feinstein | While she was teaching at Essex, EF
met a number of poets, including Ed Dorn
, who fed her interest in American poetry. She was also involved during these years with a group including Tom Pickard |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | Home in this collection opens, Where is that I wonder? It then evokes comfortable, elegant settings of both childhood and adult life, and also a place where the poet awakes from dreaming of her dead... |
Literary responses | Anne Carson | Richly appreciative comments on this book became quickly available for reproducing on the paperback edition in one of the more impressive roster of blurbs you are ever likely to see. Anderson, Sam. “The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson”. New York Times Magazine, p. 20. |
Literary responses | Carol Ann Duffy | Ruth Padel
in the TLS celebrated CAD
's political-erotic challenge. Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin, 1994. 152 Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin, 1994. prelims Rees-Jones, Deryn. Carol Ann Duffy. Northcote House, 1999. x |
Literary responses | Carol Ann Duffy | Patrick McGuinness
in the London Review of Books remarked on CAD
's ability to get into any shape she likes, McGuinness, Patrick. “Get rid of time and everything’s dancing”. London Review of Books, pp. 15 - 6. 15 |
Literary responses | Helen Dunmore | Ruth Padel
, judging the competition, pronounced this poem to be completely arresting. Crown, Sarah. “A Life in Writing”. The Guardian, pp. Review 12 - 13. Review 12 |
Literary responses | Helen Dunmore | Fellow-poet Ruth Padel
called Hold out your armsquietly sensual and subtle at the same time, luminous and utterly gentle. Kean, Danuta, and Helen Dunmore. “Helen Dunmore’s family reveal poem written in the author’s last days”. theguardian.com. |
Literary responses | Helen Dunmore | Once again the chorus of appreciation was led by her fellow poets. Kate Clanchy
called her a particularly lucid writer, and not simply because her poems are so often filled with the play of light... |
Literary responses | Elaine Feinstein | Alan Brownjohn
wrote of this collection (which centres around cities Feinstein has visited or which figure in her family's history) that the poems are mainly brief and simple, but they carry the authority of experience... |
Literary responses | Elaine Feinstein | EF
herself calls this a complex, many-voiced book with a dark secret at its heart. Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma, 2013. 245 |
Occupation | Elaine Feinstein | EF
's introduction to Russian literature, which set her seriously reading and then translating Russian authors, significantly influenced her thinking. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 14 |
Textual Features | Anne Carson | Then after some appendices (further traces of the world of scholarship) and a poem by Emily Dickinson
, Carson begins her radical modern adaptation and expansion of Geryon's story. He is now a little boy... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead
to Donne
, Jenny Joseph
to W. S. Gilbert
, U. A. Fanthorpe
to Walt Whitman
, Wendy Cope
to A. E. Housman |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carol Rumens | She discusses the poetry of Philip Larkin
, Derek Mahon
, and a range of women poets (including Adrienne Rich
, Marilyn Hacker
, and Ruth Padel
), especially their forms, music, and metres. |
Timeline
16 June 2003
A BBC
television quiz programme, The Professionals (successor to University Challenge), which pits against each other teams of journalists, meteorologists, psychiatrists or whatever, fielded a team of poets.
14 May 2013
The Zoological Society of London
(better known as the London Zoo
) launched a series of Writers Talks, in which a professuonal writer joined with a scientist and a zoo-keeper to talk about a particular...