Ruth Sophia Padel
Classical scholar, poet and journalist
Collections include The Mara Crossing and Darwin – A life in Poems and novels including Where the Serpent Lives.
From ‘Tinderbox’ in Rembrandt Would Have Loved You (London: Chatto & Windus, 1998)A hedgehog star of icicles lit
By the sun’s last rays on the lip of a cliff.
Arriving at Ellis Island, I watch the glass alps of ManhattanFrom ‘The Music of Home’ (2012) in The Wolf A Decade: Poems from 2002-2012 (magazine based in London)
soar above one-storey buildings
Ruth Sophia Padel
by Mark Gerson
bromide print, 1995
NPG x132583
© Mark Gerson / National Portrait Gallery, London
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