{"id":2708,"date":"2021-06-21T19:08:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2021-06-21T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:15:00","slug":"book-release-daughters-of-the-labyrinth-by-professor-ruth-padel-kings-college-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/2021\/06\/21\/book-release-daughters-of-the-labyrinth-by-professor-ruth-padel-kings-college-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Release: Daughters of the Labyrinth\u00a0by Professor Ruth Padel, King’s College London"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Book Release 1\/7\/21: <\/strong>Daughters of the Labyrinth<\/em>\u00a0by Ruth Padel, Professor of Poetry, King\u2019s College London.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018A daughter\u2019s passionate quest for the truth about what happened to her parents in Crete during the German occupation and a sumptuous and sensuous evocation of Crete itself, its landscape and culture. \u2019 \u2013 Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn<\/p>\n

\u2018She winds us into coils within coils of a family\u2019s dark history, horrific suffering and intimate sacrifice. She combines dramatic storytelling with moving reflectiveness, asking us to think again about whether it is better to remember or forget?\u2019 \u2013 Marina Warner<\/p>\n

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Ruth Padel is an award-winning British poet with close links to Greece, science, classical music and wildlife conservation, especially in India. She has published twelve poetry collections shortlisted for all major UK prizes; a novel featuring wildlife conservation; eight books of non-fiction, on wild tiger conservation,\u00a0mind\u00a0and\u00a0madness\u00a0in Greek tragedy and the influence of\u00a0Greek myth on rock music; and books on\u00a0reading poetry\u00a0drawn from her newspaper column\u00a0The Sunday Poem.\u00a0She is Professor of Poetry at King\u2019s College London, and Fellow of both the Zoological Society of London and Royal Society of Literature. Her poems have appeared in, among others, the\u00a0New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, The New Yorker, The White Review, Times Literary Supplement, and The Guardian.<\/em>\u00a0Awards include First Prize in the National Poetry Competition, a British Council Darwin Now Award, and a Cholmondley Prize.<\/p>\n

Ruth\u2019s life-long relationship with Greece, especially Crete, began in 1970 as a PhD student at the British School of Archaeology in Athens.<\/p>\n

Some poems in her first collection\u00a0Summer Snow <\/em>and collection on the Middle East,\u00a0Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth,<\/em>\u00a0are set in Crete. The place, and its extraordinary story, are the inspiration for her new novel\u00a0Daughters of the Labyrinth<\/em>\u00a0released on the 1st<\/sup> July 2021.<\/p>\n

On Daughters of the Labyrinth:\u00a0<\/em>\u2018Incredibly moving, capturing the vividness of the artist\u2019s way of seeing the world with such lyricism and luminosity that reading it becomes profoundly sensory, like painting. Alive with the colours and fierce light of Crete, its landscape, wildlife, scents and sounds, the story is often painful in its revelations but also full of humanity and tenderness.\u2019 \u2013 Claudia Tobin, curator of Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision, National Portrait Gallery<\/p>\n

For more about Professor Ruth Padel, please see: https:\/\/www.ruthpadel.com\/about\/biography\/<\/a>, https:\/\/www.ruthpadel.com\/about\/greece-and-crete\/greece\/<\/a>, https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/dr-ruth-padel<\/a><\/p>\n

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