# Emerald

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- Authors: [Ruth Padel](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-padel)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2018-07-12

## Description

An elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel ‘Here in deep earth, the black blossom of mourning still sifting within me I remembered that emerald was my birthstone …’ Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s 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.

## Editions

### Emerald

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7356-406-0
- Published: 2018-07-12
- Language: en_GB

### Emerald

- Publisher: Chatto & Windus
- ISBN: 978-17-8474-107-5
- Pages: 80
- Published: 2018-07-12
- Language: en_GB