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Rembrandt Would Have Loved You

Rembrandt Would Have Loved You

by RuthPadel (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $4.55
Synopsis

Ruth Padel's passionate new collection is a woman's eye view of a love affair, with darker undercurrents of mortality and loss. Shifting between vulnerability and guilt, innocence and doubt, tenderness and frustration, teasing reproach and the exaltation of deep love and sexual happiness, Padel's extraordinarily bold and intimate book explores the complexity of emotions that go with falling in love. Wonderfully versatile in tone, it blends the lyrical and the colloquial, formality and wit, myth and the Spice Girls. It includes the poem that won the 1996 National Poetry Competition 'Icicles round a tree in Dumfriesshire'.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 02 Apr 1998
ISBN 10: 0701167157
ISBN 13: 9780701167158
Book Overview: A passionate series of poems about what it is like to be a women involved in a difficult love affair.

Media Reviews
An intense and sensitive sequence of poems * Independent *
Her poems are delicate but with an unusual delicacy * The Times *
Sexy love poetry * Guardian *
A daring blend of fire and ice, passion and design -- Jo Shapcott
Author Bio
Ruth Padel is a prizewinning poet, Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Zoological Society of London, and first Resident Writer at Somerset House, London. Her collections include Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard, all shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and more recently Darwin: A Life in Poems, shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. Highly acclaimed for her nature writing in a book about conservation, Tigers in Red Weather, and her novel, Where the Serpent Lives, she has also published books on contemporary poetry, including 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem and The Poem and the Journey. In 2014, Ruth Padel is the first Writer in Residence at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and is recording her experiences in her blog at http://www.ruthpadel.com/blog/.