- Published: 15 February 2004
- ISBN: 9780099429159
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $29.99
52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem
or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life
- Published: 15 February 2004
- ISBN: 9780099429159
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $29.99
Ruth Padel combines two major gifts: she is both a distinguished poet and a quite exceptional reader of the poetry of others... The result is a book which opens doors, which bids us share with its author and the poems she has chosen a wealth of insight
George Steiner
She argues away the idea that contemporary poetry is "difficult": all it needs is a little work and the rewards are great
Sunday Times
A brilliant snapshot of contemporary poetry. Padel writes with incisive intelligence, particularly in her lively and provocative introduction on gender-related power in the poetry world and why poetry has "lost its audience
Christina Patterson, Director of the Poetry Society, Independent
A great gift for any student or poetry virgin who wonders what all the excitement is about
Glasgow Herald
She chooses her poems with impeccable taste, an anthologist of the very best contemporary poetry
The Times