Poem
Ruth Padel
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That fox you didn’t know you hadIn your front garden
Is craning his velour neck
From the hedge at two in the morning
To see what he doesn\'t often get a glimpse of,
That moonspark
On a glass of Scotch
He doesn’t often smell
Being more at home with fish-heads
And the rinds of Emmental:
Identifying, to his fox-astonishment,
A tumbler doing the rounds of his own beat
About heart-height in the dark.
© 1998, Ruth Padel
From: Rembrandt Would Have Loved You
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
From: Rembrandt Would Have Loved You
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
Ruth Padel
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1947)
“Ruth Padel combines two major gifts. She is a distinguished poet and a quite exceptional reader of the poetry of others, with a delightful skill in explanation and the instinct of a caring, clearsighted guide to how poetry works and why it matters.”
(George Steiner)
Amongst her many plaudits, Ruth Padel was the winner of the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition in 1996. She was Chair of ...
(George Steiner)
Amongst her many plaudits, Ruth Padel was the winner of the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition in 1996. She was Chair of ...
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That fox you didn’t know you hadIn your front garden
Is craning his velour neck
From the hedge at two in the morning
To see what he doesn\'t often get a glimpse of,
That moonspark
On a glass of Scotch
He doesn’t often smell
Being more at home with fish-heads
And the rinds of Emmental:
Identifying, to his fox-astonishment,
A tumbler doing the rounds of his own beat
About heart-height in the dark.
From: Rembrandt Would Have Loved You
SCOTCH
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