Ruth Padel

A joy forever: poetry world prepares to mark bicentenary of John Keats

Two hundred years after his early death, plays, readings and new poetry will honour the legacy of the much beloved author

Alison Flood

19, Feb, 2021 @4:02 PM

Tidings by Ruth Padel – unsentimental evocation of the Christmas spirit

This unsentimental poem about a homeless man at Christmas evokes the true festive spirit

Kate Kellaway

13, Dec, 2016 @10:00 AM

Ruth Padel: ‘Writing needs connection to the outside world: a lot of it seems to get done when you’re simply living’

The author of Tidings: A Christmas Journey on homelessness, living near one of the first sites of Christianity in England, and how poetry is like sculpting

Ruth Padel

19, Nov, 2016 @10:00 AM

Poetry Society top prize explores familial discord

Eric Berlin wins prestigious award with poem Night Errand, while David Morley takes Ted Hughes prize

Mark Brown

31, Mar, 2016 @6:47 PM

Only connect – poetry's hidden power to break down barriers

Poetry’s delicate dance between the said and the unsaid opens up new ways of thinking across disciplinary boundaries, says Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel

06, Nov, 2015 @11:00 AM

Leading writers hope to shift refugee debate with crowdfunded anthology

Monica Ali, William Boyd and Marina Lewycka among the authors recruited with aim of shifting public perspectives

Alison Flood

04, Sep, 2015 @1:20 PM

Wole Soyinka leads candidates for Oxford professor of poetry

Nigerian Nobel laureate receives strong support to win 300-year-old position, held in the past by writers from Matthew Arnold to Seamus Heaney

Alison Flood

07, May, 2015 @11:30 AM

TS Eliot prize shortlist joins conflict and reconciliation in the Middle East

News: Ruth Padel’s exploration of religious understanding, Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth, and Kevin Powers’ Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, drawing on his Iraq war service, among the 10-strong shortlist

Alison Flood

23, Oct, 2014 @11:44 AM

Radio 4 set to refocus on arts and culture, says controller

Initiative includes five-and-a-half hour dramatisation of Ulysses and influential Swedish crime novel series Martin Beck. By Ben Dowell

Ben Dowell

31, May, 2012 @2:40 PM

Ruth Padel: 'Poetry has a responsibility to look at the world'

The latest book from Ruth Padel, who will appear at the Guardian Open Weekend this Sunday, tackles the politically knotty subject of migration. She discusses the difficulties inherent in turning 'burning moral issues' into good poetry

Ruth Padel

21, Mar, 2012 @4:20 PM

The Mara Crossing by Ruth Padel – review

Miriam Gamble admires a broad-ranging and experimental collection about journeys and migration

Miriam Gamble

17, Feb, 2012 @10:46 PM

Debut fiction by Padel, Taseer, Witkowski | Book reviews

Mary Fitzgerald on Where the Serpent Lives by Ruth Padel, The Temple-goers by Aatish Taseer and Lovetown by Michal Witkowski

Mary Fitzgerald

14, Mar, 2010 @12:05 AM

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Ruth Padel

A joy forever: poetry world prepares to mark bicentenary of John Keats

Tidings by Ruth Padel – unsentimental evocation of the Christmas spirit

Ruth Padel: ‘Writing needs connection to the outside world: a lot of it seems to get done when you’re simply living’

Poetry Society top prize explores familial discord

Only connect – poetry's hidden power to break down barriers

Leading writers hope to shift refugee debate with crowdfunded anthology

Wole Soyinka leads candidates for Oxford professor of poetry

TS Eliot prize shortlist joins conflict and reconciliation in the Middle East

Radio 4 set to refocus on arts and culture, says controller

Ruth Padel: 'Poetry has a responsibility to look at the world'

The Mara Crossing by Ruth Padel – review

Debut fiction by Padel, Taseer, Witkowski | Book reviews

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