Padel, Ruth

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http://www.ruthpadel.com/

Ruth Padel is a prize-winning British poet, born in an attic in Wimpole Street in London. Her first job was playing viola in Westminster Abbey for #5.

She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London, Member of the Bombay Natural History and Royal Geographical Societies. As Chair of the UK Poetry Society she oversaw radical change.

She has won the National Poetry Competition and published six collections of poems. Four were Poetry Book Society Choice or Recommendation, shortlisted for the T S Eliot and/or Whitbread Prizes.

She taught Greek at Oxford, opera in the Modern Greek Department at Princeton, myth in Buenos Aires University Psychology Department, horse-riding in Berlin. She has excavated Minoan tombs on Crete, presented a Radio 4 series on Hans Andersen, sung in an Istanbul nightclub and the choir of St Eustache, Paris. Involved in both music and science, Ruth was Resident Poet for the 2002 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts and a Judge for the 2005 Aventis Science Prize for the Royal Society...

What else? She lives freelance in London, doing poetry readings, reviewing, writing and broadcasting on poetry, music. literature, and wildlife, trying to answer as few emails as possible and working on a book about king cobras.

She lives in Camden, in London. Her main exercise is walking the dog.