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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 06/05/2010
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ISBN: 9780099547051
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Length: 160 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm
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Weight: 117g
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RRP: £9.99
In these extraordinary poems, using multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - Ruth Padel illuminates the development of Darwin's thought, the drama of the discovery of evolution, and the fluctuating emotions of Darwin the husband, the naturalist and the tender father, in a powerful tribute to her famous ancestor.
Shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Poetry Award.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 06/05/2010
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ISBN: 9780099547051
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Length: 160 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm
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Weight: 117g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"Exquisite, precise and moving poems... Once I started reading I could not put it down until I had reached the end, and then I turned back for the pleasure of reading again"
Claire Tomalin
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"A fascinating, very rich book... With sympathy and grace, Padel moves deftly between between science, love and family; between the vast processes of evolution and a personal life"
Sean O'Brien
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"Daring and exciting, brilliant and subtle, stunning and deeply impressive... a lesson to biographers and poets alike"
Colm Toibin
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"Ambitious... shows her extraordinary talent"
Observer
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"Moments of Darwin's life captured with an economy and fluency that prosaic biographers might envy"
Spectator
