Ruth Padel
Poetry, Art & Writing
- ‘In Conversation with Ilya Kaminsky,’ Granta, November 2020
- Letter to a Young Poet: Writing Poems, A Personal ABC ,’T’he Scores’, Edinburgh, Autumn 2019
- ‘The Hand of Art: Czesław Miłosz – Form, Communication and Reality’ Inaugural Miłosz Lecture, given at the Miłosz Festival, Krakow, 2015
- ‘Kathe Kollwitz and The Grieving Parents’, Episode 10 in Radio 3 series, Minds at War, July 2014
- Tennyson: Echo and Harmony, Music and Thought’, Oxford Handbook to Victorian Poetry, ed. M. Bevis. 2013, OUP, Chapter 19
- ‘Sylvia Plath: Idol, Victim, Pioneer,’ Independent January 2013
- Art, Migration and Identity – The Guardian 2012
- Housman Society lecture, ‘The Name and Nature of Poetry,’ Hay on Wye Festival, 2010
- Bruegel’s Landscape with flight into Egypt – Courtauld Gallery 2009 (if you have Flash, you can hear this talk online at The Guardian)
- ‘The unforgivable truth’: on Israel’s 60th anniversary, Israeli author S. Yizhar’s novella Khirbet Khizeh Prospect Magazine, June 2008
- The wishing stones, poetry in Mandalay – P.E.N. News 2003
- Talking to Paul Muldoon – Independent 2002
- Talking to Colm Toibin – Independent 1999
- The Conjuror, The Parrot and The Past – International Writer’s Reunion, Lahti, Finland, Midsummer 1995
Ruth reading poetry at the 2019 Jaipur Literature Festival