52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: Or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life

Author: Ruth Padel

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  • : 9780099429159
  • : Penguin Random House
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  • : 01 February 2004
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  • : United Kingdom
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Description

Modern poetry is often represented as difficult or remote from most people's experience. This is a passionate attempt to introduce and examine all aspects of contemporary poetry and make it a familiar part of our lives. First published 2002.

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The best modern poetry anthology-with-a-difference. 'Padel's clear and informed approach makes modern poetry completely accessible' The Times

Author description

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. 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.