Ruth Padel
Standard Name: Padel, Ruth
Birth Name: Ruth Sofia Padel
Married Name: Ruth Burnyeat
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.
Timeline
Texts
Padel, Ruth. “’Imagery of the Elsewhere’ Two Choral Odes of Euripides”. Classical Quarterly, Vol.
24
, No. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1974, pp. 227-41. Padel, Ruth, editor. 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem; or, How reading modern poetry can change your life. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
Padel, Ruth. Alibi. Many Press, 1985.
Padel, Ruth. Angel. Bloodaxe, 1993.
Padel, Ruth. “Between Theory and Fiction: Reflections on Feminism and Classical Scholarship”. Gender & History, Vol.
2
, No. 2, pp. 198-11. Padel, Ruth. Darwin: A Life in Poems. Chatto and Windus, 2009.
Padel, Ruth. Emerald. Chatto and Windus, 2018.
Padel, Ruth. Fusewire. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
Padel, Ruth. “George Steiner and the Greekness of Tragedy”. Reading George Steiner, edited by Ronald A. Sharp and Nathan A., Jr Scott, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, pp. 99-133.
Padel, Ruth. “How and Why”. Contemporary Women’s Poetry, edited by Alison Mark and Deryn Rees-Jones, Macmillan Press; St Martin’s Press, 2000, pp. 12-17.
Padel, Ruth. I’m a Man: Sex, Gods and Rock’n’Roll. Faber and Faber, 2000.
Padel, Ruth. In and Out of the Mind. Princeton University Press, 1992.
Padel, Ruth. Indian Red. Turret Bookshop, 1992.
Padel, Ruth. “It’s over”. The Guardian, p. Review 19.
Padel, Ruth. Learning to Make an Oudh in Nazareth. Chatto, 2014.
Padel, Ruth. “Poetry has a responsibility to look at the world”. The Guardian.
Padel, Ruth. Rembrandt Would Have Loved You. Chatto and Windus, 1998.
Padel, Ruth. “Seeing Red”. The New York Times.
Padel, Ruth. Summer Snow. Hutchinson, 1990.
Padel, Ruth. The Mara Crossing. Vintage Chatto and Windus, 2012.
Padel, Ruth, editor. The Poem and the Journey. Chatto and Windus, 2007.
Padel, Ruth. The Soho Leopard. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
Padel, Ruth. Tigers in Red Weather. Little, Brown, 2005.
Padel, Ruth. Voodoo Shop. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
Padel, Ruth. Whom Gods Destroy. Princeton University Press, 1995.