Darwin would have loved you

To celebrate the U.S. publication of Darwin: A Life in Poems by Knopf, Ruth Padel made a trip to New York, where she was photographed with some apes at the American Museum of Natural History.  

Links:

Charles McGrath, "Darwin's Descendant, on Origin of Poetry," New York Times (April 17, 2009).

Richard Holmes, "Giving to a blind man eyes," Guardian (March 14, 2009).

Ruth Padel, "My Other Life," Guardian/The Observer (February 22, 2009).

Ruth Padel's website (www.ruthpadel.com).

'Nuffsiad, "Fifty-Two Ways to Leave Your Lover," The Poem (21 June 2003).