Poetry
Padel has published eight collections. Four in the 1990s, when she won the 1996 UK National Poetry Competition, and four between 2002 and 2012: most recently The Mara Crossing whose form is said to revivify the prosimetrum, a mediaeval mix of poetry and prose, which is said to address animal and human migration.
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