
Emerald
by Ruth Padel
Title:
Emerald
Author:
Ruth Padel
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
80 pages
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13:
9781784741075
EAN:
9781784741075
Publication Date:
12/07/2018
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
224
Dimensions (mm):
217 x 148 x 7
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
An elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel‘Here in deep earth, the blackblossom of mourning still sifting within meI remembered that emerald was my birthstone …’Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven.Exploring the riches of emerald lore, Padel follows the glint of green – ‘green for awakening / for bringing life back from the dead’ – from memories of her mother, a naturalist, to the black honeycomb of a Colombian emerald mine and sunset-pink of the Emerald City, Jaipur. Beneath everything shines the jewel itself, ‘the only stone in which the flaws are prized’. Beautifully carved and cadenced, Emerald is a moving chronicle of value and loss, and a celebration of all that is precious in the life that remains.

















