Girl by Ruth Padel
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Special Commendation Pablo Neruda The lesson we learn is

The lesson we learn is the grim absurdity of looking for lessons in atrocities: “sometimes I think wisdom from history is like that odd shoe / you find in the street & wonder how the person got home”

translations and sensory memory becomes a means of exploring solidarities between human

The collection of classics in Poems to Swipe Right to takes this tradition and reframes it within the bewildering experience of modern dating

— Rick Dove

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Girl by Ruth Padel<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Special Commendation</b> Pablo Neruda The lesson we learn isA fresh and questioning look at girlhood and its icons, unravelling the millennia of myth woven around girls. 'A sensual exploration of two female archetypes' Guardian 'One of our most gifted poets This is tender and exquisite poetry' Mona Arshi, author of Small Hands In Girl, Ruth Padel presents a triptych of interlocking sequences. A moving retelling of the Christian story transforms the Virgin Mary into a girl in a Primark T shirt, facing a life