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The Poem and the Journey

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • Published: 03/01/2008

  • ISBN: 9780099492948

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 266g

  • RRP: £10.99

The Poem and the Journey

Ruth Padel

Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel is renowned as a guide to understanding today's poetry. Her much-loved 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem introduced the contemporary poetry scene and discussed individual poems. Her new book, invaluable for all who want to write as well as read poems, reveals the journey of thought, language and music within sixty more poems and also shows how poems fortify us on the journey of our lives, in a collection of essays written in elegant, accessible prose.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • Published: 03/01/2008

  • ISBN: 9780099492948

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 266g

  • RRP: £10.99

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About the Author

Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel is a prizewinning poet, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and Professor of Poetry at King’s College London. Her recent collections include Darwin: A Life in Poems, on her great-grandfather Charles Darwin; The Mara Crossing, on migration and immigration; Tidings: A Christmas Journey, and Emerald, a poignant elegy for her mother. She lives in London.

Ruth Padel

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