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Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel’s Beethoven Variations, A Life in Poems (Chatto),will be published by Knopf, USA in February 2021. Her new book We Are All From Somewhere Else (Vintage), addressing animal and human migration in poetry and prose, updates to 2020 her acclaimed 2012 volume, The Mara Crossing. She is Professor or Poetry at King’s College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. See www.ruthpadel.com.