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Darwin Poetry Event: Darwin's great-great-granddaughter explores his life

Date posted: Friday 16th October

Location: City Centre

'Of all the outpourings of Darwiniana that mark his double anniversary, Ruth Padel's stand out. For one, she is a Darwin: a great great grand-daughter. And this a biography told in poetry.' Peter Forbes, The Independant

Writer Ruth Padel, Darwin's great-great-granddaughter, will read from her acclaimed book, 'Darwin- A life in Poems', and explore the importance of geology to Darwin's life. The Museum opens from 6.30pm for a special viewing of the new exhibition 'Darwin the Geologist'.

7.00-8.00pm, Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge.
Ages 16+
FREE but PREBOOK 01223 766766

Part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas
www.cambridgefestivalofideas.org

Ruth Padel has been Writer in Residence at Somerset House since January 2008. A Fellow both of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London, Ruth has won a Cholmondeley Award and the National Poetry Competition; her six acclaimed poetry collections, including Rembrandt Would have Loved You and The Soho Leopard, have been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award.

For more infomation about 'A Life in Poems', click here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/darwin-a-life-in-poems-by-ruth-padel-1632958.html