Girl by Ruth Padel
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Special Commendation Marosa di Giorgio drawing them across multiple experiences

drawing them across multiple experiences of relation – none of them equivalence

will strengthen you

Translation of the Route is the eleventh collection by the award-winning Argentine poet and translator Laura Wittner

We travel back in time to ‘The Tavern’ where ‘Marlowe & Goethe’ shoot daggers at each other and disagree about the fate of Faust

Girl by Ruth Padel<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Special Commendation</b> Marosa di Giorgio drawing them across multiple experiencesA 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