Soho Leopard

Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padel''s new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and zoological science to her glitteringly imaginative canvas. With her gift for bringing together experiences and tones of voice that normally stay far apart, she sweeps us from Dulwich Pizza Hut to ancient Siberia, King''s Cross to nineteenth-century Burma. We meet Socrates, urb...