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Ruth Padel

Award-winning poet and conservationist Ruth Padel has published thirteen  collections, taught Greek at Oxford, opera in Princeton, and is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Poetry Emerita  King’s College London. In an era of rising misogyny, and the women’ rights under new attack, her new collection Girl explores how girls, east and west, ancient, mythical and modern, face a world shaped by male power and fantasy.