Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet who has also become renowned as a guide to reading poetry. Here, she uses poems by some of our finest poets to look at the idea of the journey, through literature and through life. In an increasingly unstable world, she argues, we need poetry to help us to see afresh and understand the journeys of our lives.

In an increasingly unstable world, she argues, we need poetry more than ever to help us to see afresh and understand the journeys of our lives.