Ted Hughes
Frieda Hughes: ‘A crow’s death linked me to all the other losses in my life’
The poet and painter, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, explains how raising a large aviary of rescued birds in the Welsh countryside gave her a new purpose – and fresh pain
Lisa O'Kelly
16, Apr, 2023 @11:00 AM
‘I’m CBE, I’m poet laureate so I’m clearly not a republican am I?’: Simon Armitage
When Simon Armitage left his job as a probation worker to become a full-time poet his dad was horrified. Is the former young subversive turned royal appointee now part of the establishment?
Simon Hattenstone
08, Apr, 2023 @10:00 AM
Euphoria by Elin Cullhed review – inside the mind of Sylvia Plath
The Swedish writer offers an audacious, gripping novel imagining the poet’s final year and the conflict between creative genius and domestic life
Lara Feigel
15, Dec, 2022 @7:30 AM
Philip Larkin’s letter about the Ilkley screamer | Brief letters
Brief letters: Ted Hughes poetry reading | Avanti trains | Hoarding toes | A measure of squidge | Deep dive into jargon
06, Dec, 2022 @6:37 PM
Even Ted Hughes has fallen to the sickly cult of the twee | Martha Gill
From the Queen to Robin Williams, sentimental images abound to help us through grief and avoid staring death in the face
Martha Gill
09, Oct, 2022 @5:30 AM
Michael Dawson obituary
Other lives: Arts administrator who founded the Ilkley Literature festival in 1973
Tim Dawson
18, Sep, 2022 @7:02 PM
Unpublished Ted Hughes poems about partner Assia Wevill to be sold
The recently found notebook of fragments and finished work has been described as the poet’s ‘most direct’ response to the suicide of his partner and daughter in 1969
Lucy Knight
08, Jul, 2022 @1:45 PM
Pomp, circumstance and very bad poetry | Brief letters
Brief letters: Jubilee poems | Royal bias | Lisztomania | Subpostmasters
18, Feb, 2022 @6:01 PM
This be the verse for the Queen’s jubilee: Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and Elizabeth II | Letters
Letter: David Evans recalls Philip Larkin’s poem for the silver jubilee and his pastiche of what he imagined Ted Hughes might write
Letters
11, Feb, 2022 @6:02 PM
Country diary: The bird box and tree trunk are no longer separate things
Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: Like our fleeting winter, this box is merely an impression of what it once was, and what it should be
Paul Evans
13, Jan, 2022 @5:30 AM
Robert Habeck: from translating English verse to German high office
Ted Hughes felt the soon-to-be minister for economy and climate was ‘on the same wavelength’
Philip Oltermann in Berlin
06, Dec, 2021 @4:13 PM
Michael Horovitz obituary
Iconoclastic poet, editor and leading light of British counterculture during the 1950s and 60s
Douglas Field
11, Jul, 2021 @3:03 PM
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