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Book SynopsisPrize-winning poet Ruth Padel is renowned as a guide to understanding today''s poetry. Her much-loved
52 Ways of Looking at a Poem introduced the contemporary poetry scene and discussed individual poems. Her new book, invaluable for all who want to write as well as read poems, reveals the journey of thought, language and music within sixty more poems and also shows how poems fortify us on the journey of our lives, in a collection of essays written in elegant, accessible prose.
Trade ReviewIt's a generous, likable, diligent and smart piece of work -- Andrew Motion * Guardian *
Ruth Padel is Virgil in the 'Inferno' of poetry. She guides the reader gently and deftly on the journey... This is much more than a book about poetry, this is a handbook for living! -- Fiona Shaw
Brilliant... Padel draws on a huge range of references to make a powerful case for poetry as a living art form * Independent *
As a writer you would probably choose Ruth Padel as your ideal reader. Her eye misses very little of the nudging and winking that goes on in a poem, and she seems able to tune into the silent music of text on the page...she finds more than most to engage with and enjoy -- Simon Armitage
An enlivening, illuminating book, lucid, accessible and probing * The Times *
