Ruth Padel
@ruthpadel.bsky.social
Poetry * wildlife * music * India * Greece *
New 📗 GIRL -
‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore)
‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian)
'Crafted for deep engagement: girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai)
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New 📗 GIRL -
‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore)
‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian)
'Crafted for deep engagement: girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai)
Www.ruthpadel.com
‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins
October 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins
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Our author, Andrei Gomez Suarez (@andreigomezsuarez.bsky.social) is speaking at the Beyond Borders International Festival event in Scotland next week!
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August 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Our author, Andrei Gomez Suarez (@andreigomezsuarez.bsky.social) is speaking at the Beyond Borders International Festival event in Scotland next week!
bbintfest.com/events/curre...
bbintfest.com/events/curre...
Reading tonight on Greece but in Kentish Town: at the Owl bookshop with Julian Hoffman with his lovely new book on living in Greece
June 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reading tonight on Greece but in Kentish Town: at the Owl bookshop with Julian Hoffman with his lovely new book on living in Greece
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Tonight at @owlbookshop.bsky.social in London's Kentish Town I'll be speaking with the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social to start my book tour for Lifelines!
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
June 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Tonight at @owlbookshop.bsky.social in London's Kentish Town I'll be speaking with the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social to start my book tour for Lifelines!
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
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#Lifelines author @julianhoffman.bsky.social will be travelling to the UK in June for a series of brilliant events!
Based in London? You can catch Julian and @ruthpadel.bsky.social in-conversation @owlbookshop.bsky.social on 11th June.
🎟️: owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
Based in London? You can catch Julian and @ruthpadel.bsky.social in-conversation @owlbookshop.bsky.social on 11th June.
🎟️: owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
May 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#Lifelines author @julianhoffman.bsky.social will be travelling to the UK in June for a series of brilliant events!
Based in London? You can catch Julian and @ruthpadel.bsky.social in-conversation @owlbookshop.bsky.social on 11th June.
🎟️: owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
Based in London? You can catch Julian and @ruthpadel.bsky.social in-conversation @owlbookshop.bsky.social on 11th June.
🎟️: owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
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Quick reminder that I'm popping up tomorrow morning alongside Imtiaz Dharker and Seni Seneviratne, as part of Khushwant Singh Literary Festival London, to help launch The Poetry Archive's poetry of South Asia collection. It'd be grand to see you. Tix are free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/khushwant-...
Khushwant Singh Literary Festival London 2025 (7th edition)
The Khushwant Singh Literary Festival London is a labor of love. To promote the legacy of Khushwant Singh
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May 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Quick reminder that I'm popping up tomorrow morning alongside Imtiaz Dharker and Seni Seneviratne, as part of Khushwant Singh Literary Festival London, to help launch The Poetry Archive's poetry of South Asia collection. It'd be grand to see you. Tix are free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/khushwant-...
I just did not expect the catastrophic insight into Turkey’s policy in the 30s - terrifying
“A riveting, profoundly rewarding listen… @joedunthorne.bsky.social is a captivating storyteller”
A great review of Half-Life by @patricianicol.bsky.social in today’s @thetimes.com!
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
A great review of Half-Life by @patricianicol.bsky.social in today’s @thetimes.com!
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
My family’s escape from the Nazis — and the terrible secret I discovered
Joe Dunthorne’s fascinating podcast on BBC Sounds tells how the novelist learnt that his family’s stories of their flight from Germany hid a betrayal
www.thetimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I just did not expect the catastrophic insight into Turkey’s policy in the 30s - terrifying
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In today’s Half-Life on BBC Radio 4, @joedunthorne.bsky.social follows in his great-grandfather's footsteps to Turkey where he was employed, it seems, making gas masks
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
May 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
In today’s Half-Life on BBC Radio 4, @joedunthorne.bsky.social follows in his great-grandfather's footsteps to Turkey where he was employed, it seems, making gas masks
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Its an amazing story and you have done it so well!
May 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Its an amazing story and you have done it so well!
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We cannot be supporters of this Israel. We assume some—possibly even many—Israelis agree. We’d like to hear from them.❤️❤️❤️
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/w...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/w...
Israeli Forces Said They Killed a ‘Terrorist.’ He Was 14 Years Old.
www.nytimes.com
May 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
We cannot be supporters of this Israel. We assume some—possibly even many—Israelis agree. We’d like to hear from them.❤️❤️❤️
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/w...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/w...
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Thank you, @ebbooksellers.bsky.social, for keeping us informed about the ongoing travesty and censorship of the current administration. #censorship, #writingcommunity, #litsky, #poetrysky
We’ll update the list as we learn of more publishers and/or add more books to our shelves.
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ebbooksellers.com/lists/L53KwK...
May 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Thank you, @ebbooksellers.bsky.social, for keeping us informed about the ongoing travesty and censorship of the current administration. #censorship, #writingcommunity, #litsky, #poetrysky
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🎨 Offering Tobacco and Coffee to the Foreign Ambassador Waiting at the Chamber of the Chief Scribe (Reisülküttab) in the Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, c. 1800
May 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
🎨 Offering Tobacco and Coffee to the Foreign Ambassador Waiting at the Chamber of the Chief Scribe (Reisülküttab) in the Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, c. 1800
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🧐 Did you know that in July 2024, California hit a huge milestone by supplying its electricity demand with 100% clean energy for 100 days? 🧵 #california #energysky
May 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🧐 Did you know that in July 2024, California hit a huge milestone by supplying its electricity demand with 100% clean energy for 100 days? 🧵 #california #energysky
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@thirdactorg.bsky.social template for contacting US Senators re: the damaging budget bill. @billmckibben.bsky.social @votersoftomorrow.org @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @envirovoters.bsky.social
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May 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
@thirdactorg.bsky.social template for contacting US Senators re: the damaging budget bill. @billmckibben.bsky.social @votersoftomorrow.org @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @envirovoters.bsky.social
thirdact.org/act/urge-you...
thirdact.org/act/urge-you...
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Fab evening at Cheltenham Poetry Festival last night with @ruthpadel.bsky.social @petitecreature1.bsky.social and Pat Edwards. Support the Festival. A great programme. @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social #poetry
May 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Fab evening at Cheltenham Poetry Festival last night with @ruthpadel.bsky.social @petitecreature1.bsky.social and Pat Edwards. Support the Festival. A great programme. @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social #poetry
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Thank you Anna, Zoe & the @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social team for an amazing opening night! An honour to witness @ruthpadel.bsky.social's stunning reading from "Girl". @patwelshpoolpoetry.bsky.social cast her keen eye over Marys of religion, myth and history. Monica Piersky, fascinating folkloric poems.
May 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Thank you Anna, Zoe & the @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social team for an amazing opening night! An honour to witness @ruthpadel.bsky.social's stunning reading from "Girl". @patwelshpoolpoetry.bsky.social cast her keen eye over Marys of religion, myth and history. Monica Piersky, fascinating folkloric poems.
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Should we see ourselves as trapped by our narratives as much as we are dependent on them to make sense of the world? | iai.tv/video/lost-i...
Join Matthew Beaumont, @ruthpadel.bsky.social , Theodore Dalrymple, and host Myriam François to discuss the power of narratives.
#langsky
Join Matthew Beaumont, @ruthpadel.bsky.social , Theodore Dalrymple, and host Myriam François to discuss the power of narratives.
#langsky
Lost in Stories
Our narratives enable us to make sense of the world. From setting the scene and providing a means to understand what is happening, to placing ourselves at the centre of our own life's story,…
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April 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Should we see ourselves as trapped by our narratives as much as we are dependent on them to make sense of the world? | iai.tv/video/lost-i...
Join Matthew Beaumont, @ruthpadel.bsky.social , Theodore Dalrymple, and host Myriam François to discuss the power of narratives.
#langsky
Join Matthew Beaumont, @ruthpadel.bsky.social , Theodore Dalrymple, and host Myriam François to discuss the power of narratives.
#langsky
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Happy Birthday Seamus Heaney! If he was born in Yorkshire, this would read:
If we can winter this out
Summer will kill us no doubt.
If we can winter this out
Summer will kill us no doubt.
April 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Happy Birthday Seamus Heaney! If he was born in Yorkshire, this would read:
If we can winter this out
Summer will kill us no doubt.
If we can winter this out
Summer will kill us no doubt.
Wow - so honoured! 💃💃💃
I love beautiful coincidences. One of the poetry inspirations for Daughter of Fire, my poetry collection about Margaret of Anjou, was @ruthpadel.bsky.social. I recently found a copy of Ruth's 1993 collection Angel & its bookplate was from a library in Angers (Margaret country)! #Poetry #MedievalSky
April 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Wow - so honoured! 💃💃💃
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I love beautiful coincidences. One of the poetry inspirations for Daughter of Fire, my poetry collection about Margaret of Anjou, was @ruthpadel.bsky.social. I recently found a copy of Ruth's 1993 collection Angel & its bookplate was from a library in Angers (Margaret country)! #Poetry #MedievalSky
April 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I love beautiful coincidences. One of the poetry inspirations for Daughter of Fire, my poetry collection about Margaret of Anjou, was @ruthpadel.bsky.social. I recently found a copy of Ruth's 1993 collection Angel & its bookplate was from a library in Angers (Margaret country)! #Poetry #MedievalSky
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The wonderful @patwelshpoolpoetry.bsky.social is on Bsky! Pat is inspirational - I'm currently reading her book Hail Marys and loving it 😍 @annasaund.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social @ruthpadel.bsky.social
Could not be more excited for this #Poetry reading, alongside poetry goddesses @ruthpadel.bsky.social and Pat Edwards. I'll be writing more in the coming days about what Ruth's writing has meant to me. #FeistyFemales #MythicalWomen
Three immensely powerful female poets on one stage, are set to make for an exciting opening event for this year's @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social - please join us for @ruthpadel.bsky.social @petitecreature1.bsky.social #PatEdwards - please read more and book - www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
April 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The wonderful @patwelshpoolpoetry.bsky.social is on Bsky! Pat is inspirational - I'm currently reading her book Hail Marys and loving it 😍 @annasaund.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social @ruthpadel.bsky.social
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I would absolutely love to see you at @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social this May - our line up absolutely wonderful with some very fine poets and performers. They include @ruthpadel.bsky.social #MichaelSymmonsRoberts #SeanBorodale - read more
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
April 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I would absolutely love to see you at @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social this May - our line up absolutely wonderful with some very fine poets and performers. They include @ruthpadel.bsky.social #MichaelSymmonsRoberts #SeanBorodale - read more
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
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'Permissions and Omissions'. I'll be talking to the Friends of Little Gidding on 14 May at 2.30 about my experience of editing poetry anthologies. - 'if you came this way', you'd be very welcome.
#poetry
#poetry
April 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
'Permissions and Omissions'. I'll be talking to the Friends of Little Gidding on 14 May at 2.30 about my experience of editing poetry anthologies. - 'if you came this way', you'd be very welcome.
#poetry
#poetry
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Could not be more excited for this #Poetry reading, alongside poetry goddesses @ruthpadel.bsky.social and Pat Edwards. I'll be writing more in the coming days about what Ruth's writing has meant to me. #FeistyFemales #MythicalWomen
Three immensely powerful female poets on one stage, are set to make for an exciting opening event for this year's @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social - please join us for @ruthpadel.bsky.social @petitecreature1.bsky.social #PatEdwards - please read more and book - www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
April 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Could not be more excited for this #Poetry reading, alongside poetry goddesses @ruthpadel.bsky.social and Pat Edwards. I'll be writing more in the coming days about what Ruth's writing has meant to me. #FeistyFemales #MythicalWomen