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Ruth Padel
Ruth Padel’s ten collections have been shortlisted for a number of prizes. Her prose includes a travel memoir, Tigers in Red Weather on tiger conservation; I’m A Man on Greek myth and rock music; and a wildlife novel, Where the Serpent LivesAwards include a British Council ‘Darwin Now’ Fellowship and First Prize in the National Poetry Competition. She is Professor of Poetry at King’s College London and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Two Poems

Poetry

May 2018

Ruth Padel

Poetry

May 2018

INTERMISSION   She stabilised. She started dying and then stopped. My brother said her aneurysm had sealed       stuck   between a kidney and her...

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fiction

August 2016

Boy With Frog

Kristin Posehn

fiction

August 2016

My first impression was of a tall building laid down for a nap, with all its parts nestled together...

Essay

March 2019

Dreaming Reasonably: on Jenny George

Rachael Allen

Essay

March 2019

In Neil Marshall’s 2005 horror film The Descent, a group of women go spelunking and become trapped deep underground...

fiction

September 2016

STILL MOVING

Lynne Tillman

fiction

September 2016

 I am bound more to my sentences the more you batter at me to follow you. – William Carlos...

 

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