Topic: Ruth Padel
A CANADIAN scholarship student at Oxford can be revealed today as a leading campaigner against the election of Derek Walcott as the university's professor of poetry.. It emerged this week that his rival Ruth Padel had emailed journalists, including one at ...
The two main rivals for his chair were Derek Walcott, 78, and Ruth Padel, 63. Walcott withdrew from the race, and Padel was duly elected. Padel was not, before this row, a particularly prominent poet. It next became apparent that the person ...
Full details of the email sent by Ruth Padel, who was forced to quit as Oxford Professor of Poetry after smearing her opponent, can be revealed for the first time in the Standard today.. Ms Padel sent the email to Olivia Cole ...
Ugly fight for top Oxford poetry post divides British academia, raises issues of race, genderLONDON A fight over who gets to be Oxford University's top poet has set Britain's pens racing and weakened the careers of two well-known wordsmiths.St ...
Full details of the email sent by Ruth Padel, who was forced to quit as Oxford Professor of Poetry after smearing her opponent, can be revealed for the first time in the Standard today.. Ms Padel sent the email to Olivia Cole ...
The scandal surrounding the Oxford Professorship of Poetry is reminiscent of Labour spin doctor Damian McBride at his worst. We were alerted on 8 April to the existence of a book by two American academics documenting alleged sexual harassment against Nobel laureate ...
After presiding over a decision to resign by Sir Nicholas and Lady Winterton, two of his MPs who broke Commons expenses rules, David Cameron has attempted to seize the initiative in response to public outrage with the House.. Mr Cameron's programme ...
Full details of the email sent by Ruth Padel, who was forced to quit as Oxford Professor of Poetry after smearing her opponent, can be revealed for the first time in the Standard today.. Ms Padel sent the email to Olivia Cole ...
Tomorrow, the election for Oxford Professor of Poetry will proceed without its most illustrious candidate.. Derek Walcott, Nobel prize-winner and recent recipient of an honorary degree from Oxford, withdrew after it became clear that there was a campaign to revive against him ...
Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott has quit the race to become Oxford Professor of Poetry after becoming embroiled in a sex smear campaign.. Walcott, the front-runner for the post, announced today to the Evening Standard his decision to stand down as a candidate ...
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Hay festival diary: Ruth Padel talks ...
Ruth Padel talks to chief arts writer Charlotte Higgins about ...2009-06-01 -
Mourid Barghouti with Ruth Padel - World ...
Midnight and Other Poems, translated by Radwa Ashour, is the ...2009-09-14 -
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Ruth Padel discusses why, although she's written about nature ...2009-04-19
