Poetry
Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life
A fascinating poetic journey into the mind and heart of a musical genius
We Are All From Somewhere Else
Weaving science, myth, wild nature and human history, through poetry and prose: a world sustained by migration
Emerald
A moving exploration of Ruth's mother’s life, personality and death
Tidings
A classic fable for Christmas, reminiscent of those by Dickens and Dylan Thomas
Learning To Make An Oud In Nazareth
A daring collection, shortlisted for the T. S, Eliot prize, on conflict, harmony and the Middle East
The Mara Crossing
An exploration of migration in all its aspects, through poetry and prose
Darwin: A Life in Poems
A highly acclaimed intimate portrait of the life and work of Charles Darwin by his great-great-grand-daughter
The Soho Leopard
Hallucinatory, lyrical, passionately musical — an exploration of our need for wildness and stories
Voodoo Shop
A twenty-first century tale of love and bereavement, shortlisted for the Whitbread and T. S. Eliot Prize
Rembrandt Would Have Loved You
Blending the lyrical and the colloquial, formality and wit, myth and the Spice Girls
Fusewire
Poems on British colonisation in Ireland interwoven with love poems which reverse its sexual clichés
Angel
A ‘ruthless, rich and cool’ shifting between ways of seeing — across personas and history
Alibi
A pamphlet of lyric poems, Alibi is Ruth Padel’s first publication, a collector’s item
Summer Snow
Lyric poems moving from archaeology, decipherment and Minoan Crete to modern graffiti on Athenian cacti