EmeraldAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Thursday 12 July 2018
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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 Padels 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.
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