Ruth Padel

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Ruth Sophia Padel
Born Wimpole Street, London
Nationality British
Occupation Poet
Author
Website
http://www.ruthpadel.com

Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS (play /pəˈdɛl/ pə-del) (born 8 May 1946) is a British poet. She also writes non-fiction and more recently fiction,[1][2]. She broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and 4 on poetry, literature, music and wildlife.[3][4]

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[edit] Biography

Padel is daughter of psychoanalyst John Hunter Padel and Hilda, daughter of Sir (James) Alan Noel Barlow 2nd Baronet and Nora Barlow, née Darwin, grand-daughter of Charles Darwin, through whom Padel is Darwin's great-great-grandchild.[5] Her brother is historian Oliver Padel; cousins include prison reformer Una Padel, sculptor Phyllida Barlow and biographer Randal Keynes. Her uncle is Horace Barlow. Padel was born in Wimpole Street where her great-grandfather Sir Thomas Barlow[6] practised medicine.[7][8][9][10][11] She attended North London Collegiate School, studied classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where she sang in the Schola Cantorum of Oxford,[12][13][14] wrote a PhD on Greek poetry and was first Bowra Research Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford, which altered its Statutes for her to accommodate female Fellows; she was thus among the first women to become Fellows of formerly all-male Oxford colleges. She taught Greek at Oxford and Birkbeck, University of London,[7] taught opera in the Modern Greek Department at Princeton University, has lived extensively in Greece, and in Paris where she sang in the Choir of Église Saint-Eustache, Paris.[15] She was married to philosopher Myles Burnyeat;[16] they have one daughter.[16]

[edit] Work

Padel writes poetry, criticism, non-fiction and fiction.[17][18][19]

[edit] Poetry

Padel published her first poetry pamphlet in 1985 while teaching Greek at Birkbeck College, London and left academia to support herself by reviewing.[20][21] Through the 1990s she published four collections, Summer Snow, Angel (Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Fusewire and Rembrandt Would Have Loved You (PBS Choice, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize). She won the 1996 UK National Poetry Competition with a long poem, “Icicles Round a Tree in Dumfriesshire,” based on an Andy Goldsworthy ice sculpture[22] and from 1998 to 2001 pioneered The Sunday Poem, an innovative and influential weekly column in London's Independent on Sunday of close readings of contemporary poems, which she collected and developed in her books 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem and The Poem and the Journey.[23] Chair of the UK Poetry Society 2004-2007, she presided over the establishment of poetry 'Stanzas' across the UK.[7][24] Her interest in combining poetry, science and religion is reflected in poems on genetics,[25][26] debates on poetry and prayer with Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury[27][28][29][30] lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons, her work on Charles Darwin and a residency at the Environment Institute, University College London.[4] In 2009 her Darwin - A Life in Poems was shortlisted for the Costa Prize; in 2010 she chaired the Judges for the Forward Poetry Prize[31] and in 2011 delivered the Housman Lecture at the Hay Festival on "The Name and Nature of Poetry."[32]

[edit] Style and Themes

Padel's themes include science, nature, painting, music, history, wildlife and human relations.[33] Her stylistic hallmarks are said to be rich imagery, complex music, wit, passion and lyrical intelligence, with internal rhyme, half-rhyme and enjambment deploted to song-like effects, displaying 'unusual energy within and against the line',[34][35][36][37][38] 'As if Wallace Stevens had hijacked Sylvia Plath with a dash of punk Sappho thrown in." (The Times Literary Supplement)[34][39] [19] Quoted influences include Gerard Manley Hopkins and choral passages of Greek tragedy where, she has claimed, "the words curl in images over each other" and "one word can turn the whole feel of a poem over on itself".[40] From 1998 to 2004, Padel's collections reflected themes from simultaneously written non-fiction: music (for I’m a Man - Sex, Gods and Rock ‘n’ Roll); technical attention to the poetic line (as in 52 Ways of Looking At A Poem, exemplified in poems such as 'Writing to Onegin' and 'Icicles Round a Tree in Dumfrieeshire', her National Poetry Competition winner)[41]; and wildlife science (for Tigers in Red Weather) as for example,'Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool'.[42] More recent poems such as 'Pieter the Funny One', on Pieter Bruegel’s ‘Triumph of Death’,[43][44] and her poem 'Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth',[45] which she has stated came out of listening to oud players from Nazareth,[46] suggest a new direction.

[edit] Poems on Darwin

Padel's 2009 poems on Charles Darwin were received as innovative genre-breaking work, both biography and lyric, welcomed by scientists[47] and the literary community. They covered Darwin's life, family and science.[19][48][49] Reviewed as a 'new species of biography' in verse, the book offered 'drama, speed, rich imagery and an inner voice with tragic overtones'.[35][50][51] Its emotional centre was the Darwins' marriage,[52] shaken by divergent religious belief and the death of a daughter.[35] Since Padel is a Darwin descendent, the work was also a family memoir.[53] Her Preface illuminates the role of Padel’s grandmother Nora Barlow, who in editing Darwin's Autobiography restored a passage in which Darwin said he did not see how anyone could wish the doctrine of hell to be true; this had been deleted by the first editor, Darwin's son Francis at his mother's request. Padel's poems connected Darwin's loss of his mother as a child with his passion for collecting;[54] and linked his early scientific writing with his taxidermy teacher in Edinburgh John Edmonstone, a freed slave from Guiana.[55]

[edit] Criticism: Reading Poetry

Padel's books on reading contemporary poetry, 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem (2002) and The Poem and the Journey (2005), and her Sunday paper column from which these works grew, have influenced a decade of writing and thinking about poetry in the UK. "Ruth Padel combines two major gifts: she is a distinguished poet with a delightful skill in explanation and the instinct of a caring, clearsighted guide to how poetry works and why it matters," said critic George Steiner.[56] These works were followed by Silent Letters of the Alphabet. Her criticism uses acute close analysis and lightly worn knowledge of Greek poetics, myth, metaphor, tone and rhyme.[57] She is said to read with aural acuity and generosity, is never polemical, and her precision does not obscure but builds the big picture. She addresses the general reader but with 'utmost attention to the page.'[40][58] She has also written Introductions to the works of Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti and Ramsey Nasr, as well as of Walter Ralegh, Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins.[59] At the opening festival of the T S Eliot Festival at Little Gidding in 2006, 70 years after Eliot's visit there, Padel described the contrast between Eliot's memories of Little Gidding and his experience of The Blitz whilst writing the poem. "It reminded him there was still a place that had a sense of truth."[60][61] She returned to this moment in her Forward to the posthumous volume of Mahmoud Darwish, comparing his writing to that of Seamus Heaney in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and of Eliot during the London blitz.[62]

[edit] 'Poetry Workshop' Radio 4

Padel presents BBC Radio 4's 'Poetry Workshop', a quarterly series of programmes on writing poetry, in which she visits different poetry groups across the UK to discuss their work.[63][64][65][66][67]

[edit] Non-Fiction

[edit] Scholarship & Myth

While publishing poetry, Padel has written a series of non-fiction works, beginning with two books for Princeton University Press on ancient Greece,[68][69][70] As scholar of Greek tragedy, Padel concentrated on tragedy's ideas of mind, and defined the tragic hero as the embodiment of the human mind, 'which lives catastrophe, suffers damage and endures.' She began In and Out of the Mind with Hermes, god of interpretation; she ended Whom Gods Destroy with a discussion of Munch's The Scream whose face resembles a tragic mask.[71] In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self explores the way Greek ideas of inwardness shaped European notions of the self.[69] She used anthropology and psychoanalysis to support her thesis that male Greek culture spoke of the mind as mainly female: receptive rather than active.[71] Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Madness in Greek and Other Tragedy investigates madness in tragedy from the Greeks to Shakespeare and the moderns, parsing different views of madness in different societies.[71] In her more popular work I'm A Man: Sex, Gods and Rock 'n' Roll(2000) she argues that rock music began as a ‘wishing well of masculinity,' which drew on mythic connections between male sexuality, aggression, anxiety, misogyny and violence which derived from Ancient Greece. She has stated that she intended it to focus on women's song, but found that an essential prequisite to exploring women's voices was analyzing the maleness of rock music and the ways it represents women.[72] The book had a mixed reception from male reviewers. Women reviewers described it as original, beautifully expressed, vivid, amusing and convincing;[73] Rock writers Charles Shaar Murray and Casper Llewellyn Smith found it 'provocative and fascinating' and her analysis of rock's misogyny 'dazzling.'[72]

[edit] Nature Writing

Padel's account of wild tiger conservation,[72] drawing on her scientific background and Darwinian descent,[74] was valued internationally for its insights on conservation, as travel writing with introductions to little-known parts of the world such as Sumatra, Bhutan and Ussuriland, its ear for dialogue and the quality of nature writing.[74][75][76][77] But center-stage was the tiger and the field-zoologist, ‘living uncomfortably alone in remote places between despair and day-to-day hope.’[76] Padel continues to write on tigers and more widely on wildlife.[78]

[edit] Fiction

Padel's first novel continued her conservation and zoology interests. Where the Serpent Lives, set in tropical forest, Devon woods and London during 2007,[75][79][80][81] was noted for vivid nature writing, innovative use of science, and the animal's viewpoint in its description of wildlife.[80][82][83][84] In India and UK, reviewers commented on the story-telling, the lyrical prose, moving family story, acute perspective on wildlife conservation and imaginative connections between nature, poetry and science.[85] "She has done for the forests of Karnataka and Bengal what Amitav Ghosh did for the Sundarbans in The Hungry Tide."[75][79][80][85][86][87]

[edit] Radio and Music

Padel's radio work reflects her interest in music, literature, nature and the environment. In Wild Things, a series of radio essays for Radio 3, she explored the myths and ecology of five British wild creatures. She has said that if she could choose any other career it would be opera director[88] for London Review of Books, she has written on opera and a sixteenth-century madrigal,[89][90] in a Radio 3 series ‘Writers as Musicians’ she spoke about playing viola,[91] an instrument whose ‘inner voice’ illustrates her Newcastle Poetry Lectures Silent Letters of the Alphabet,[92][93] and has broadcast opera interval talks for BBC Radio 3. For BBC Radio 4 she has written and presented features on writers, scientists and composers including Hans Christian Andersen,[7] Edward Elgar, Charles Darwin and W.S. Gilbert.[7] As guest on Desert Island Discs.[8][94][95], chosen works included Beethoven String Quartet Opus 132, Verdi's Requiem, ‘Down by the Salley Gardens’ sung by Kathleen Ferrier, ‘I’m Ready for You’ sung by Muddy Waters, a Cretan folksong and 'The Boys from Piraeus,’ from the film Never on Sunday.[96][97] Her luxury was a herd of deer.[98]

[edit] Books

[edit] Poetry

  • Alibi 1985
  • Summer Snow 1990
  • Angel 1993
  • Fusewire 1996
  • Rembrandt Would Have Loved You 1998
  • Voodoo Shop 2002
  • Soho Leopard 2004
  • Darwin - a Life in Poems 2009
  • The Mara Crossing 2012

[edit] Criticism, Editing

  • 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem: How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life 2002
  • The Poem and the Journey 2006
  • Silent Letters of the Alphabet 2010
  • Walter Ralegh, Selected Poems 2010
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson (Folio Society, Introduction and Notes) 2007
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins (Folio Society, Introduction) 2011

[edit] Non-fiction

  • In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self 1992
  • Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness 1995
  • I'm a Man: Sex, Gods and Rock 'n' Roll 2000
  • Tigers in Red Weather 2005

[edit] Fiction

  • Where the Serpent Lives 2010

[edit] Awards, Residencies, Appointments

Padel was Poet in Residence for the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts in 2002[7] and opened the 2009 Edinburgh International Book Festival with a reading of 'Darwin - A Life in Poems.' The following year at the same festival she curated and presented a series of literary events around “Writing the Family”.[99] She has been Writer in Residence at Christ's College, Cambridge[100] and as first Writer in Residence at Somerset House she inaugurated the Writers' Talks at the Courtauld Institute of Art.[101][102][103][104] In March 2009 she read and discussed Darwin at the University of Havana, at the Poetry Society of America in Lillian Vernon House, New York and at the New York Botanical Garden.[105] Since 2005 she has taught and lectured on conservation, nature writing and the environment and was Resident Poet in the Environment Institute, University College London, 2010–2011.[4] She has read and lectured on nature in Mumbai, at the Bombay Natural History Society and Prithvi Theatre.[106][107]

[edit] Oxford Professor of Poetry

In 2009, Padel was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, the first woman since the Chair was founded in 1708. She received 297 votes, a higher percentage of the electorate (composed of Oxford University Members and alumni) than James Fenton, who received 228 in 1994[117] and Christopher Ricks who received 214 votes in 2004.[13][118][119] (The system now allows online voting, which enables many more to vote.)[120] She resigned before taking office due to a media storm amid press allegations that she had "smeared" her main rival, Nobel-Prize-winner Derek Walcott who withdrew before the election.[121][122] Walcott's candidacy had been controversial in the University from the start. Some counselled against, on grounds of Walcott’s university record in the US; others dimissed this record as irrelevant since the post does not require student contact.[123] Newspapers claimed Walcott was the favourite, but The Times pointed out this was a lazy understanding of a system which does not admit of favourites: the number of supporters listed in the University Gazette gives no clue to the final outcome.[123] American commentators attributed the storm to a gender war,[124][125] some British commentators to misogyny,[126] and London's The Observer newspaper to ‘toxicity of the metropolitan media’:[127] the story "had everything, from sex claims to allegations of character assassination";[13] it allowed the press "simultaneously to pursue allegations in Walcott's past and criticize Padel for having mentioned these allegations as a source of voters' disquiet".[123] Allegations against Padel began before the election when The Sunday Times reported that photocopied pages of a University of Illinois publication, detailing cases of sexual harassment laid against Walcott at Boston University and Harvard University, had been sent anonymously to Oxford academics. Walcott announced his withdrawal not through Oxford University but through London's newspaper The Evening Standard, which led a series of allegations against Padel picked up by other papers.[13][128][129][130][131][132][133] Padel criticized the anonymous missives, said 'I wish he had not pulled out' and denied connection with them.[133] There was no evidence to link her to them, but the press widely alleged her involvement. After her election, The Evening Standard published an email in which, responding to requests for information on pre-election opinion at Oxford, Padel had mentioned voters' unease at Walcott's university record. Evidence for this unease was in the public domain[134][135][136] and there was no evidence that anything Padel had written led to any published article or to Walcott's withdrawal,[137][138] but Padel resigned, saying she had been naive to mention disquiet about Walcott's teaching record, and apologizing for doing anything which could be misconstrued as against Walcott.[135] Asked if she would encourage Walcott to stand again, Padel replied, "Yes, if he wants. I think he'd do good lectures."[139] Letters to British newspapers criticized media handling of the affair. Letters to The Guardian complained of unfair denigration of Padel, "justly held in high regard for her poetry and teaching." A letter to The Times Literary Supplement complained of unfair media pursuit of Walcott's past; a letter to The Times claimed that Oxford had "missed out for the worst of reasons on an inspirational teacher: Walcott removed the decision from the electorate by his own choice; Padel should not have been made to pay for his decision to confront neither his accusers nor his past."[140][141] On Newsnight Review,[142] the poet Simon Armitage and poetry promoter Josephine Hart expressed regret about her resignation. "Ruth's a good person," Simon Armitage said. "I don't think she should have resigned, she would have been good." Padel subsequently supported Geoffrey Hill in the following election in which Hill was appointed.

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