# Darwin

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- Authors: [Ruth Padel](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-padel)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2010-05-06

## Description

In these extraordinary poems, using multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - Ruth Padel illuminates the development of Darwin's thought, the drama of the discovery of evolution, and the fluctuating emotions of Darwin the husband, the naturalist and the tender father, in a powerful tribute to her famous ancestor. Shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Poetry Award.

## Editions

### Darwin

- Publisher: knopf
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0795-952-2
- Published: 2011-11-23
- Language: en_US

### Darwin

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9954-705-1
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2010-05-06
- Language: en_GB