Ruth Padel was Judge for 2016 International Man Booker Prize, and Chair of Judges for the 2016 TS Eliot Prize. She is Reader in Poetry at King’s College London. Her latest collection Tidings is a book-length narrative poem about homelessness, sunrise and Christmas:’Magical – a literary and emotional feat, (Observer).
Ruth Padel
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)