Sessions
Meter and Magic: Poetry Readings
Amir Or, Anupama Raju, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Mamta Sagar, Mani Rao, Ranjit Hoskote and Ruth Padel
Silent Spring: Thinking about Climate Change in Poetry
Ranjit Hoskote and Ruth Padel
Beethoven Variations – Emotion and Creativity in the Life of a Genius
Ruth Padel and Karl Lutchmayer
Bio
Ruth Padel is an award-winning British poet, scholar and conservationist, Professor of Poetry at King’s College London, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, author of Tigers in Red Weather, Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth and the bestselling Darwin: A Life in Poems, a verse biography of her great-great-grandfather Charles Darwin. Her new book, Beethoven Variations, is a poetic journey into the life of Beethoven.