Ruth Sophia Padel

Classical scholar, poet and journalist

Close-up black and white photo of the face of a woman with pale skin tone resting her head on her handCollections include The Mara Crossing and Darwin – A life in Poems and novels including Where the Serpent Lives. A hedgehog star of icicles lit By the sun’s last rays on the lip of a cliff. From ‘Tinderbox’ in Rembrandt Would Have Loved You (London: Chatto & Windus, 1998) Arriving at Ellis Island, I watch the glass alps of Manhattan soar above one-storey buildings From ‘The Music of Home’ (2012) in The Wolf A Decade: Poems from 2002-2012 (magazine based in London) Ruth Sophia Padel, by Mark Gerson, 1995, NPG x132583, © Mark Gerson / National Portrait Gallery, London

Collections include The Mara Crossing and Darwin – A life in Poems and novels including Where the Serpent Lives.

A hedgehog star of icicles lit
By the sun’s last rays on the lip of a cliff.

From ‘Tinderbox’ in Rembrandt Would Have Loved You (London: Chatto & Windus, 1998)

Arriving at Ellis Island, I watch the glass alps of Manhattan
soar above one-storey buildings

From ‘The Music of Home’ (2012) in The Wolf A Decade: Poems from 2002-2012 (magazine based in London)