Book description
Fusewire has the fierce historical awareness and linguistic
energy of Ruth Padel's previous collections but moves into new
territory and new clarity. Poems on British activity in Ireland
through the ages intrude on an intensely moving series of love poems
which reverse sexual clichés of colonisation: here Britain is female
and Ireland the high-profile man.
From the prize-winning poet of Rembrandt Would Have Loved
You, Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard, all
shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Ruth Padel is a prize-winning poet, Fellow of both the Royal Society
of Literature and Zoological Society of London, and first Resident
Writer at Somerset House, London. Her poetry collections include
Rembrandt Would Have Loved You,
Voodoo Shop
and
The Soho Leopard,
all
shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; and, most recently, the
critically-acclaimed
Darwin.
She has also published two much-loved books on reading contemporary
poetry,
52 Ways of Looking at a Poem
and
The Poem and the Journey,
and a highly acclaimed nature book,
Tigers in Red Weather
, shortlisted in the US for the Kiriyama Prize
.
