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Ruth Padel

@ruthpadel.bsky.social
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Poetry - wildlife - music - India - Greece New 📗 GIRL - ‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore) ‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian) 'Girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai) Www.ruthpadel.com

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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If only everyone interested in what peace means on the ground could read - andreigomezsuarez.substack.com/p/las-mandal...
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Las Mandalas de la Paz
Una reflexión personal de mi participación en el proceso de paz con Comuneros del Sur en Nariño, Colombia*
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Only thing to read in a drought
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Bliss
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins
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Richard McColl @londomomposino.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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...
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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...
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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
#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...
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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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-...
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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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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I just did not expect the catastrophic insight into Turkey’s policy in the 30s - terrifying
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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...
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Its an amazing story and you have done it so well!
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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...
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Israeli Forces Said They Killed a ‘Terrorist.’ He Was 14 Years Old.
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Sixteen Rivers Press @sixteenrivers.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🎨 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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Sun Day @sundayofaction.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🧐 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
Graphic which reads '100 Days of Clean Energy'
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
@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...
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Urge your Senator to oppose the GOP budget bill! – Third Act
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Cool bewildering May
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Nigel Kent @kent-nj.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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.
Ruth Padel reading from Girl, Lucy Heuschen reading from Daughter of Fire, Pat Edwards reading from Hail Marys and Monica Piercey reading poems of Polish folklore.
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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 14/04/2025
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
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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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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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.
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Wow - so honoured! 💃💃💃
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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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
Cover of Angel, a poetry collection by Ruth Padel.Bookplate from the American Library, Angers, France
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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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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annasaund.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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...
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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
'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
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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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
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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So excited to be joining the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social at London's @owlbookshop.bsky.social on June 11th for stories and poetry from Greece, on what will be the first stop of my book tour for LIFELINES this summer. Details and tickets via the link: owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
The covers of Lifelines and Ruth Padel's Girl on an event poster.
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
One of our satellite-tagged Cuckoos has hitched a ride on a cruise ship and is now in the UK, the earliest one of our superstar Cuckoos has ever reached us! 😮🛥️🧵
Image of a world map showing the journey of Cuckoo Tom when he hitched a ride on a cruise ship. Arrows show the ships journey from West Africa to the Atlantic Ocean, across to the coast of South America, past Puerto Rico, the United States, up to Iceland and to the UK. A headshot of Cuckoo Tom features, alongside the wording: Tagged, Norfolk 2023. Current location: UK. Mode of transport: cruise ship. Outline of a cruise ship in white sits over the ocean. BTO logo features top right of the image.
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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
'Lewis has long been a writer of rare skill, but this latest shows her at the height of her imaginative and intellectual powers.’ - @mabjones.bsky.social, Buzz Magazine, on Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis's new collection First Rain in Paradise. www.buzzmag.co.uk/new-poetry-m...
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New poetry for March: Pulitzer winners, twitchers and Bovril drinkers
Mab Jones returns with four estimable poets: American Diane Seuss and Welsh diamonds Emily Cotterill, Jon Gower and Gwyneth Lewis.
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cheltpoetfest.bsky.social @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Here's the list of events! @ruthpadel.bsky.social opens the festival. Among the many highlights are @robinince.bsky.social, Michael Simmons Roberts, Robert Seatter, @josephpconlon.bsky.social, Sean Borodale, Fiona Benson, & the 15th Festival Slam. www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
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West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Our 2025 workshops are here! Nature Writing: @pollyrowena.bsky.social; Short Story: Ross Raisin; Writing Places: Sarah Moss; Novel Writing: Paul McVeigh; Travel Writing: @helenscales.bsky.social and Poetry: @ruthpadel.bsky.social. Booking opens Monday 24 March at 12pm westcorkmusic.ie/LFworkshops
Photos of the six authors teaching writing workshops at this summer's West Cork Literary Festival. Nature Writing for Times Like These with Polly Atkin, The Short Story with Ross Raisin, Writing Places with Sarah Moss, Novel Writing with Paul McVeigh, Travel Writing: The Sea with Helen Scales and Poetry with Ruth Padel
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
'How a group of ordinary people who shared a fear that they were losing their democracy could figure out how to work together to reclaim it.' open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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March 15, 2025
March 15 is a crucially important day in U.S.
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...
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Elon Musk Shared, Then Deleted X Post Absolving Hitler, Stalin and Mao of Genocide
The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.
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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
we’re going to have to talk sensibly and honestly about the ramifications of this very soon. for literature, for publishing, for the assessment of talent, for the creative writing degree. Anyway - first time I’ve read any AI fiction or poetry and thought: Oh. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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‘A machine-shaped hand’: Read a story from OpenAI’s new creative writing model
Posting the piece online, OpenAI’s Sam Altman said this is the first time he has been “really struck” by AI writing
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Signing GIRL in Toppings St Andrews after lovely reading last night at stanza poetry festival: beautiful audiences beautiful day
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Thrilled to be reading from GIRL at Stanza Poetry Festival Opening Night March 14 - online and in person event 7.00 - with a galaxy of poetry stars
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Anna Shelton @annashelton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Really looking forward to hearing the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social read from her brilliant collection ‘Girl’ this evening. Us open miccers will be reading poems of girlhood too. #GoToThePoets ❤️ Book tickets here: www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
Go to the poets, they will speak to thee. Ruth Padel reads tonight at Wordsworth Grasmere on zoom. Book tickets here.
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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Imagine how much effort you have to put into looking at the terrible state of the arts in Britain and then deciding that it must be protests and boycotts that are responsible rather than wilful neglect and underfunding.
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annasaund.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
opening @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social 2025 - 3 powerful poets share work that shines a light upon the representation of women and girls in myth, legend,history. @ruthpadel.bsky.social @petitecreature1.bsky.social Pat Edwards. @zoebrooks.bsky.social May 7. www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
So looking forward to reading @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social with @petitecreature1.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social on 7 may
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
a completely brilliant and beautiful book…
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Peter Kenny @peter-kenny.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Have a great time! And thanks again for coming on our podcast. The more I read, and think about, Girl the more I love it.
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
So looking forward to hearing it!
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Peter Kenny @peter-kenny.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Loved talking to @ruthpadel.bsky.social about her fabulous collection Girl, and hearing her exquisite poems. From the annunciation to a serpent goddess glimpsed from a London bus. Plus poignant work by Siegfried Baber listen to @planetpoetry.bsky.social here www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...
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Girls | Snakes - Planet Poetry
Psssssssssst!  We've invited Ruth Padel to share work from her recent Chatto Poetry collection Girl. She talks about the power of girls, the mythologies woven around them and the responsibilities...
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
So looking forward to doing two #poetry readings next weekend: Valentines Night 14 Feb 7 pm with sitar player Vijay Jagtap Forty Hall Enfield and Sunday 16 Feb 2.30 pm @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social with @carrieetter.bsky.social Padraig O Tuama and Helen Calcutt sunday
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annasaund.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Words meet the wonders of science at this year's @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social and tickets are now available! Our sparky themes include 'science' ! Highlights include #MichaelSymmonsRoberts @ruthpadel.bsky.social #fionabenson www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hi Marcelle, it's a fabulous line-up, congratulations on your event! I'm reading on 7th May with @ruthpadel.bsky.social and Pat Edwards ✨ #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryFestival
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