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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.
""Exquisite, precise and moving poems... Once I started reading I could not put it down until I had reached the end, and then I turned back for the pleasure of reading again"" -- Claire Tomalin ""A fascinating, very rich book... With sympathy and grace, Padel moves deftly between between science, love and family; between the vast processes of evolution and a personal life"" -- Sean O'Brien ""Daring and exciting, brilliant and subtle, stunning and deeply impressive... a lesson to biographers and poets alike"" -- Colm Toibin ""Ambitious... shows her extraordinary talent"" Observer ""Moments of Darwin's life captured with an economy and fluency that prosaic biographers might envy"" Spectator
