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From 1998 to 2004, Padel's collections reflected simultaneously-written non-fiction: music ( for I ’ m a Man-Sex, Gods and Rock ‘ n ’ Roll ); technical attention to the poetic line ( as in 52 Ways of Looking At A Poem, exemplified in poems such as ' Writing to Onegin ' and ' Icicles Round a Tree in Dumfrieshire ', her National Poetry Competition winner ); and wildlife ( as in Tigers in Red Weather ).

Her poems on migration combine biology and history to place human migration in a wider context.

Recent poems also reflect an interest in the Middle East: on Pieter Bruegel ’ s " Triumph of Death ", the 2002 Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, " Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth ", which she has stated came from hearing Le Trio Joubran ; in addition to a conversation with Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, and Introduction to the posthumous diary and poems of Mahmoud Darwish.